Tobacco Farmers and Public Health: A Common Agenda

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Tobacco Farmers and Public Health: A Common Agenda

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Grower-Related Internet Resources

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Buyout Legislation

Buyout Resources

FDA Regulation over Manufactured Tobacco Products

Phase II Payments

President’s Tobacco Commission

False Friends: The U.S. Cigarette Companies' Betrayal of American Tobacco Farmers

The U.S. Tobacco Price Support Program

Direct Contracting and Marketing

Grower Class Action Law Suit Against Cigarette Companies

Crop Alternatives/Diversification

Government Data and Information Services

Newspaper Clippings

Literature on Tobacco Growing

Tobacco Cooperatives

Tobacco Grower Assistance Groups

Tobacco Publications

Tobacco States Publications

Where is Tobacco Grown?

Buyout Legislation

Buyout Legislation Sponsored by U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY), "Tobacco Market Transition Act of 2003"
- Summary
- Complete Bill

Buyout Legislation Sponsored by U.S. Representative Ernie Fletcher (R-KY), "Tobacco Equity Elimination Act" (H.R. 245)
- Summary (William Snell)
- Complete Bill
- Campaign Press Release: Congressman Fletcher's Bill Will Assist Tobacco Farmers And Address the Economic Crisis in Tobacco Growing Communities, January 8, 2003
- Campaign Press Release: Public Health Groups Back Bills Introduced by Sen. Cleland and Rep. Fletcher To Help Tobacco Farmers and Tobacco Growing Communities, June 28, 2002
- Burley Tobacco Growers’ Cooperative Association Endorsement of Fletcher Plan

Buyout Legislation Sponsored by U.S. Representative Virgil Goode (R-VA), "Tobacco Market Transition Act" (H.R. 4763)
- Summary (William Snell)
- Complete Bill

Buyout Legislation Sponsored by U.S. Representative Mike McIntyre (D-NC), "Tobacco Livelihood and Economic Assistance for our Farmers" (H.R. 3940).
- Complete Bill
- Campaign Press Release: Representative McIntyre’s Tobacco Bill Does Too little for Farmers and Their Communities and Does Not Advance Public Health, March 15, 2002

Earlier Buyout Legislation Sponsored by former U.S. Senator Jesse Helms (R-NC), "Rural Community Revitalization and Transition Act." - Summary (William Snell)

Other Buyout Resources

Quota Value Calculator Tool (by William Snell)
Tobacco Quota Buyout Proposals in the 108th Congress (Jasper Womach 2003)
Top Ten Reasons Why a Buyout is Needed (William Snell 2003)
Tobacco Buyout Update (William Snell 2003)
Summaries of Buyout Legislation (William Snell 2002)
Campaign Press Release: Public Health Groups Launch Ad Campaign Supporting Tobacco Quota Buyout and Continued Price Supports, April 22, 2003
Campaign Press Release: More than 200 Tobacco Growers and Public Health Advocates Join In Capitol Hill Lobby Day to Push for Comprehensive Federal Tobacco Policy Reform, June 25, 2001
Burley Tobacco Growers’ Cooperative Association Support for FDA regulations on Cigarettes
Burley Tobacco Growers’ Cooperative Association Support for Buyout Legislation (Danny McKinney)
Burley Tobacco Growers’ Cooperative Association Latest Buyout and FDA Legislation

FDA Regulation over Manufactured Tobacco Products

Special Report - FDA Authority over Tobacco: Legislation will Protect Kids and Save Lives
Burley Tobacco Growers’ Cooperative Association Support for FDA regulations on Cigarettes
Why Should All Interested Parties Want FDA Regulation of Tobacco Products? (Burley Tobacco Growers’ Cooperative Association)

Phase II Payments

National Association of State Attorneys General
National Governor’s Association
Kentucky Office of Agricultural Policy
North Carolina Tobacco Settlement Administration
North Carolina Phase II Tobacco Certification Entity
South Carolina Tobacco Settlement Administration
Campaign Fact Sheet: The Major Cigarette Companies’ Phase II Payments to the Tobacco-Growing States

President's Commission on Improving Economic Opportunity in Communities Dependent on Tobacco Production While Protecting Public Health.

Special Report: President's Tobacco Commission

False Friends: The U.S. Cigarette Companies’ Betrayal of American Tobacco Farmers

Special Report: False Friends - Cigarette Companies' Betrayal of American Tobacco Growers

The U.S. Tobacco Price Support Program

The U.S. Tobacco Program: How it Works and Who Pays for It (William Snell 1996)
Overview of the Tobacco Program and Policy Issues (William Snell 2001)
Burley Price Supports 2002 (Burley Tobacco Growers Cooperative Association)

Direct Contracting and Marketing

Contracting in Tobacco? (Carolyn Dimitri and Edward Jaenicke 1999)
Contracts Revisited (Carolyn Dimitri 2003)
Tobacco Contracting Issues and Update (William Snell and Daniel Green 2001)
Campaign Statement: Philip Morris' Announcement Of Direct Contracting with Burley Tobacco Growers, February 3, 2000
Season of Success (Henry West 2003)
Marketing Center Hosts Open-House (Sara Dryden 2002)
Burley Co-op Announces First Burley Co-op Marketing Center in Cythiana, Kentucky (Sara Dryden 2002)

Grower Class Action Law Suit Against Cigarette Companies

DeLoach, et al v. Philip Morris, et al. All parties have settled except R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Holdings Inc.

Crop Alternatives / Diversification

Farmers seeking replacement for tobacco consider edible flowers, Associated Press, June 7, 2003
NY Restaurant Offers Dishes Flavored with Tobacco, Voices of America, Adam Phillips, June 14, 2003
N.C. Farms Turn From Tobacco to Vineyards, Associated Press, August 4, 2003

Government Data and Information Services

Newspaper Clippings

Farm ventures may yield bounty, Louisville Courier-Journal, Marcus Green, July 7, 2003
Tobacco policy may soon turn over a new leaf, Louisville Courier-Journal, James R. Carroll, July 7, 2003
U.S. Tobacco Farmer Faces a Hazy Future, Associated Press, Emily Gersema, July 6, 2003
Farmer Sees Future for Tobacco, Associated Press, July 4, 2003
Anti-Smoking Measures Gain in the Heart of Tobacco Country, New York Times, David M. Halbfinger, March 2003
Tobacco production to be at lowest point since 1874, Louisville Courier-Journal, Paul Rofles, July 2, 2003
Tobacco Auctions Shift to Computers, Louisville Courier-Journal, Estes Thompson, July 29, 2003

Literature on Tobacco Growing

Tobacco and the Economy: Farms, Jobs, and Communities (H. Frederick Gale Jr., Linda Foreman, Thomas Capehart, USDA Economic Research Service 2000)
Structural Changes in U.S. Tobacco Farms (William Snell 1999)
Trends in the US Cigarette Industry after the Master Settlement (Thomas Capehart, USDA Economic Research Service 2001)
Tobacco Industry Downsizing, Restructuring (USDA Economic Research Service 2002)
The Changing Tobacco User’s Dollar (Thomas Capehart, USDA Economic Research Service 1999)

Tobacco Cooperatives

Tobacco Grower Assistance Groups

Tobacco Publications

Farmers’ Pride (Burley Tobacco Growers Cooperative Association)
Scoop (Flue Cured Tobacco Stabilization Corporation
Tobacco Reporter
Tobacco Farmer
Tobacco Journal
Tobacco.Org—Tobacco News and Information
Crops Daily

Tobacco States Publications

Where is Tobacco Grown?

Campaign Fact Sheet: Tobacco-Growing States in the USA
Map of Burley Tobacco Region (Tobacco Farmer)
Map of Flue-Cured Tobacco Region (Tobacco Farmer)

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