📊 Tobacco, Inflation, and EU Trade

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Today's charts:

1. Brazil’s tobacco production 🚬

2. A recent history of Argentina’s inflation 📈

3. How much trade does LatAm do with the EU? 🇪🇺

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Agriculture 🚬

Humanity has been somewhat aware that smoking is harmful for a long time. Consider the following from the Orlando Sentinel:

In 1604 King James I of England issued a report on what he called "the vile use (or rather abuse) of taking tobacco." James called it "a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs."