| The Tobacco Reference Guide
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| by David Moyer, MD. |
| Chapter 30 Tobacco farmers |
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| In North Carolina, where 56% of America's cigarettes are made, the number of |
| tobacco farms fell from 100,000 to 41,800 between 1985 and 1991, and poultry is |
| now a bigger business. From 1972 to 1992, tobacco's share of farm receipts in North |
| Carolina fell from 37% to 20%. |
| George Will column, February 10, 1992 and Coalition on Smoking or Health 1995 |
| newsletter on tobacco growers |
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| Tobacco farmers received much less of each dollar spent on cigarettes in 1991 as |
| compared to 1967 (from 9 cents to only 3 cents), while the share for tobacco |
| manufacturers increased from 19 cents to 53 cents in the same period. |
| North Carolina Medical Journal, January 1995, p. 6 |
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| The share that tobacco farmers earned for every retail dollar of sales dropped from 16 |
| cents in 1957 to only 3 cents in 1993, compared that year for 63 cents of every dollar |
| to manufacturers, 5 cents for retailers, and 29 cents for excise taxes. |
| World Watch, July-August 1997, p. 26 |
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| Between 1960 and 1991, the price share of each cigarette that went to tobacco |
| farmers decreased from 10.4% to 2.6%. The manufacturer's (tobacco company) |
| share increased from 34% to 49.8%, and the proportion of the sales price that went |
| for excise taxes dropped from 45% to 24.7% |
| US Dept. of Agriculture data reported by Michael Eriksen, Atlanta, November 12, |
| 1993 |
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