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 …

As farm income from tobacco production has declined in recent years, there has been increasing interest in identifying … alternative sources of income for tobacco farmers in the southern United States The recent termination of the tobacco quota … program has accelerated the exit of tobacco farmers and has heightened concern regarding the availability of substitutes for …

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

The 2004 federal tobacco buyout ended the longstanding tobacco quota and price support programs, and also eliminated … all tobacco reporting requirements. Producers are adjusting to the free market with scant information. The 2006 Burley … Tobacco Survey provides an initial glimpse of post-buyout burley tobacco production, trends, challenges, and expectations. …

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 …