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Compensating Farmers for the Tobacco Settlement (CRS Report for Congress)

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Release Date July 6, 1998
Report Number 98-133
Report Type Report
Authors Jasper Womach, Environment and Natural Resources Policy Division
Source Agency Congressional Research Service
Summary:

Proposals to implement a tobacco settlement are likely to have negative economic consequences for tobacco growers and tobacco-dependent communities. There appears to be growing support for some kind of compensation to farmers as part of the settlement package legislation. On the other hand, a consistent downward trend in domestic cigarette consumption, which some contend is likely to continue even without the tobacco settlement, argues against compensation.