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                    [Title] => What's real score in tobacco farming
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When Congress resumes its session on May 7, 2012, the proposed reform of the excise tax law will again be the hot issue.

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For the past 17 years, farmer Bernadette Guya wakes up around 4 a.m. and works for the next 12 hours tending tobacco plants in a one-hectare leased plot in the northern Philippine province of La Union. She spends those hours watering and pruning them, and caring for each leaf by hand to remove pests.

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BERNADETTE GUYA
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When Congress resumes its session on May 7, 2012, the proposed reform of the excise tax law will again be the hot issue.

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For the past 17 years, farmer Bernadette Guya wakes up around 4 a.m. and works for the next 12 hours tending tobacco plants in a one-hectare leased plot in the northern Philippine province of La Union. She spends those hours watering and pruning them, and caring for each leaf by hand to remove pests.

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