The Fair and Equitable Tobacco Reform Act of 2004 eliminated tobacco quotas and tobacco price supports and allowed … producers to plant any amount or type of tobacco regardless of geographic location. The authors found that flue-cured tobacco … producers made greater adjustments to their operations after the buyout than did burley tobacco producers. Flue-cured tobacco …

Tobacco, the sixth largest cash crop grown in the United States, is cultivated in 21 States. The United States produces … 23 types of tobacco divided into eight major classes of tobacco. Tobacco is used for cigarettes, Cigars, chewing tobacco …, snuff, pipe tobacco, and roll-your-own cigarettes. The United States is both the largest importer and exporter of tobacco …

Marketing quota and price support programs for peanuts and tobacco were a longstanding feature of U.S. farm policy …, from the 1930s until the Government enacted quota buyouts, in 2002 for peanuts and 2004 for tobacco. Quota owners were … about structural changes at farm, regional, and marketwide levels. Since the buyouts, many peanut and tobacco farms have …

analysis uses Malawi, a country that earns most of its foreign exchange from tobacco, as a case study of export concentration …) when tobacco exports are falling is almost three times greater than the increase in GDP when exports are rising. Model …-based simulations indicate that variability in tobacco exports leads to slower economic growth because GDP falls by a relatively large …