|
|
Decline in Smoking Takes Toll on Tobacco Farmers
Categories:
· Others
International:
· USA
|
|
Source:http://www.thetakeaway.org/,2010-05-20
|
|
Smoking is in decline. This is good news for the CDC, but bad news for tobacco farmers. This month, Washington State increased their cigarette tax to more than three dollars a pack. And two new smoking bans will take effect this summer in Kansas and Wisconsin, making a total of 26 states that say no to smokers.
In response to reduced demand, Philip Morris abruptly cancelled the contracts of many tobacco farmers early this spring. Kelly Ann Perkins and her husband Timothy were among them. They've been planting tobacco each May for 35 years. But now, they are selling off their equipment and looking to an uncertain future. Jane Starnes works at the Center for Tobacco Grower Research at the University of Tennessee and has heard from farmers who are facing these cuts.
|
|
|
Tobacco Hot news and Information.
| | |
|
Ark. tobacco funds earning little interest
|
|
|
Source: http://www.timesunion.com/,2010-09-07 |
|
| |
A state lawmaker is questioning why Arkansas' tobacco settlement money isn't bringing in more interest and says the Legislature should manage some of the investment if the state Board of Finance can't bring in enough money to cover costs.
|
|
|
| | |
|
Japan's smoking rates hit record low, survey shows
|
|
|
Source: http://www.marketwatch.com/,2010-09-03 |
|
| |
The percentage of smokers in Japan has fallen for the 15th straight year and set a new record low, the results of a nationwide survey released Wednesday by Japan Tobacco Inc. (2914.TO) showed.
|
|
|
| | |
|
Where there's smoke, there's ire
|
|
|
Source: http://www.southtownstar.com/,2010-05-15 |
|
| |
When Pamela Blouin opened her Evergreen Park tobacco shop three decades ago, cigarettes cost about $5.25 per carton - nearly $3 less than what a single pack costs in some places today, she recalls.
|
|
|
More tobacco news...
|
|
|
|
