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China produces about one-third of the world's supply of tobacco leaf and is the largest consumer of cigarettes. Any … crops, tobacco leaf has the lowest economic rate of return. Currently, China has a large surplus of tobacco leaf. One of the … factors contributing to this surplus is local governments' encouraging farmers to plant tobacco leaf, in part because of their …