France, Nov. 8 -- Ahead of a meeting later this month where the EU will decide whether to adopt World Health Organization recommendations to cut funding to European tobacco farms, Polish producers are making their voices heard.

Poland is the European Union's third largest producer of tobacco, behind Italy and Spain, according to the EU's most recent available figures.

Tobacco is also grown in France,Greece, Croatia, Hungary and Bulgaria, with the EU producing140,000 tonnes as of 2018 - a figure that has been in decline since 1991, when the bloc produced 400,000 tonnes.

The World Health Organization (WHO) is encouraging the EU to cut funding to tobacco farms and envisage a future without the sector - debates that will be on the agenda a...