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The Tobacco Reference Guide |
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| | Chapter 30 Tobacco farmers |
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| | Farm cash receipts for tobacco were $2.34 billion in 1990, 90% from the six states of |
| | North Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia, South Carolina, and Georgia. |
| | Tobacco Use: An American Crisis, p. 84 |
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| | The "tobacco subsidy" is a system of federally mandated tobacco price supports that |
| | assures farmers a buyer for their crop at guaranteed minimum price. In 1986, there |
| | was a major bailout of farmers that will eventually cost about $1 billion, or $5,000 of |
| | taxpayer money for each of the nation's 200,000 tobacco farms. |
| | Journal of the National Cancer Institute, March 16, 1988, p. 82 |
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| | The government pays $35 million a year to tobacco farmers in crop insurance and |
| | price supports. In addition, there is a year $1 billion subsidy to the tobacco industry |
| | because of the tax deductibility of their advertising and promotional expenses. |
| | NBC news, March 9, 1994 |
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| | In 1986, the 137,000 tobacco farms in the US were less than a quarter of their 1950 |
| | number. Manufacturers of cigarettes and other tobacco products in 1950 employed |
| | 87,340 workers in 900 factories; by 1987, there were only 137 factories with 44,740 |
| | workers. |
| | American Medical News, November 14, 1994, p. 14 |
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| | The number of tobacco farms decreased by 23% from 1985 to 1992, primarily |
| | because tobacco manufacturers boosted the use of imported foreign tobacco in the |
| | production of American cigarettes from 13% in 1980 to 35% in 1992. |
| | SCARC, March 2, 1994 |
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