MANILA, Philippines — 'It's time to grow food, not tobacco.' The World Health Organization (WHO) has made this appeal to countries in the Western Pacific region, including the Philippines, describing tobacco farming as a 'threat to food security and nutrition.' Governments, according to WHO, should convert tobacco plantations into farms for sustainable food crops, which it said could help achieve food security at the local level. 'Imagine if we used the same 1 million hectares to grow nutritious food.

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