 Therefore, despite the fact that the consequences of smoking are a major health issue in Argentina, the national government supports the producers by means of a Tobacco Special Fund ("Fondo Especial del Tabaco", FET), which consists in a subsidy plus easier access to credit in order to modernize the industry.An important number of Argentina's tobacco industry employees are mostly underage workers.The TVPRA "List of Goods Produced by Child Labor or Forced Labor" published in December 2014 by the Bureau of International Labor Affairs underlines the existence of such practices in Argentina.