Chapter 30 Tobacco farmers

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In North Carolina, where 56% of America's cigarettes are made, the number of

tobacco farms fell from 100,000 to 41,800 between 1985 and 1991, and poultry is

now a bigger business. From 1972 to 1992, tobacco's share of farm receipts in North

Carolina fell from 37% to 20%.

George Will column, February 10, 1992 and Coalition on Smoking or Health 1995

newsletter on tobacco growers

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Tobacco farmers received much less of each dollar spent on cigarettes in 1991 as

compared to 1967 (from 9 cents to only 3 cents), while the share for tobacco

manufacturers increased from 19 cents to 53 cents in the same period.

North Carolina Medical Journal, January 1995, p. 6

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The share that tobacco farmers earned for every retail dollar of sales dropped from 16

cents in 1957 to only 3 cents in 1993, compared that year for 63 cents of every dollar

to manufacturers, 5 cents for retailers, and 29 cents for excise taxes.

World Watch, July-August 1997, p. 26

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Between 1960 and 1991, the price share of each cigarette that went to tobacco

farmers decreased from 10.4% to 2.6%. The manufacturer's (tobacco company)

share increased from 34% to 49.8%, and the proportion of the sales price that went

for excise taxes dropped from 45% to 24.7%

US Dept. of Agriculture data reported by Michael Eriksen, Atlanta, November 12,

1993

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