1. Federal subsidies are still given to tobacco farmers. 2. Also on the agenda will be finding ways to help tobacco farmers switch to new crops and restricting international marketing and domestic advertising. 3. Also, he questioned the attack on federal funding for a handful of smoke shops when tobacco farmers enjoy federal subsidies. 4. American tobacco farmers have much to lose. 5. And now a whiff of national politics has tobacco farmers at full alarm. 6. Asbier is in school and his father, a tobacco farmer in Cuba, is already working in a clothing factory. 7. As with other segments of agriculture, the number of tobacco farmers has been shrinking for decades. 8. Aside from the expected vote Thursday on the liability limit, the Senate is expected to begin debating a proposal to eliminate federal price supports for tobacco farmers. 9. Baesler, himself a tobacco farmer, has long championed his fellow growers. 10. Bliley also said the tax would burden not just large tobacco companies but local tobacco farmers in Virginia and other states. |
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