The “Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act” was signed into law on June 22, 2009. The bill grants the … Federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) an authority to regulate the manufacturing and marketing of tobacco products …. Tobacco leaf is not subject to the regulation. As a result, it is not apparent what it does mean to tobacco growers. However …

.S. tobacco farmers' productivity to the quota buyout of 2004. We isolate the impact of distortionary policy, i.e., the tobacco … contribution of reallocation of resources among tobacco growers. Reallocation of resources includes entry into and exit from … tobacco farming, as well as growth or decline of the resources allocated to existing tobacco farms. We find that aggregate …

The objective of the paper is to establish an empirical relationship between household characteristics and tobacco … for Tobacco Grower Research’s (CTGR’s) 2011 mail survey of tobacco producers. Results indicate that over 80 percent of the … sample tobacco growers are concerned about the impact of the FDA regulation. The profiles of growers who reported to be …

When longstanding marketing quota systems were eliminated (“bought out”) in 2002 for peanuts and 2004 for tobacco …-oriented system. The nature of the peanut and tobacco marketing quota programs, the structure and magnitude of the buyouts, and market … of USDA’s Agricultural Resource Management Surveys (ARMS) on peanut and tobacco producers over a multi-year timeframe …