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 …

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 …

Three representative Tennessee tobacco farms are used to estimate farm-level impacts of (1) program continuation with …

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 …

tobacco are developed using different sources of data. Farm budget data are used to develop input vectors for flue …-cured tobacco production at eight different levels of technology. Total requirements per $1 of change in final demand are calculated …

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 …