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The tobacco industry has a long history of oppression. In the late 1600s, Filipino farmers – especially those in the Ilocos and Cagayan Valley regions – were subjected to abuse by the Spanish government, being forced to fulfill tobacco production quotas on the pain of corporeal punishment.
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