Tobacco communities at a crossroad: the preliminary of the President's Commission on Improving Economic Opportunity in Communities Dependent on Tobacco Production While Protecting Public Health

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United States. President's Commission on Improving Economic Opportunity in Communities Dependent on Tobacco Production While Protecting Public Health

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U.S. Dept. of Agriculture

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[2001]

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English

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Introduction and guiding principles: I.

The current threat to U.S. tobacco farmers and their communities

II. Harms caused by smoking and other tobacco use and their impact on tobacco states and tobacco-farming communities

III. Emerging challenges for U.S. tobacco farmers

IV. Options and opportunities for assisting tobacco farmers and their communities - without harming the public health

V. Ways to reduce tobacco use that are consistent with efforts to assist U.S. tobacco farmers and reduce their economic problems

VI. Request for comments

Appendices: A. Executive

Introduction and guiding principles: I.

The current threat to U.S. tobacco farmers and their communities

II. Harms caused by smoking and other tobacco use and their impact on tobacco states and tobacco-farming communities

III. Emerging challenges for U.S. tobacco farmers

IV. Options and opportunities for assisting tobacco farmers and their communities - without harming the public health

V. Ways to reduce tobacco use that are consistent with efforts to assist U.S. tobacco farmers and reduce their economic problems

VI. Request for comments

Appendices: A. Executive order establishing the commission

B. Core principles statement

C. Tobacco farmers and the public health community working together

D. Various tobacco quota statistics

E. Primary sources of information. Introduction and guiding principles: I.

The current threat to U.S. tobacco farmers and their communities

II. Harms caused by smoking and other tobacco use and their impact on tobacco states and tobacco-farming communities

III. Emerging challenges for U.S. tobacco farmers

IV. Options and opportunities for assisting tobacco farmers and their communities - without harming the public health

V. Ways to reduce tobacco use that are consistent with efforts to assist U.S. tobacco farmers and reduce their economic problems

VI. Request for comments

Appendices: A. Executive order establishing the commission

B. Core principles statement

C. Tobacco farmers and the public health community working together

D. Various tobacco quota statistics

E. Primary sources of information.

Subjects

Subjects

Economic conditions
economics
Government policy
prevention & control
Smoking
Smoking -- prevention & control -- United States
Tobacco
Tobacco -- economics -- United States
Tobacco Dependence
Tobacco Dependence -- prevention & control -- United States
Tobacco farmers
Tobacco farmers -- United States -- Economic conditions
Tobacco Industry
Tobacco Industry -- economics -- United States
Tobacco industry -- Government policy -- United States
United States

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