NDLI: The Changing Political Environment for Tobacco: Implications for Southern Tobacco Farmers, Rural Economies, Taxpayers, and Consumers: Discussion

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The Changing Political Environment for Tobacco: Implications for Southern Tobacco Farmers, Rural Economies, Taxpayers, and Consumers: Discussion

Content Provider	Semantic Scholar
Author	Reeve, Rebecca H.
Copyright Year	1999
Abstract	First let me say how gratifying it is to be seen as part of the solution rather than the source of the problem. That is my reaction to seeing both the state-level and regional roundtables of the Southern Tobacco Communities Project listed in the table of selected educational programs addressing the economic adjustment issues facing tobacco dependent communities prepared by Woods, Isaacs, Mundy, and Given, Addressing the changes now taking place in the world of tobacco with creative and innovative solutions becomes all the more crucial based on the observations of Brown, Snell, and Tiller in describing the changing political environment for tobacco. They ask perhaps the most pertinent question in the tobacco world today, “Should national legislation concerning smoking and tobacco resurface in the near future, are there reasonable compromises concerning the US tobacco program that could (emphasis added) satisfy all the stake holders in the program?” This may be an important question in regard to future legislation on a national level, but the issues they describe in their discussion of political context will drive decisions in state legislatures this spring. Statehouses across the South will begin making decisions now about the allocations of their portions of the $206 billiondollar master settlement negotiated in November of 1998. The stakeholders in these allocation debates include all tobacco farmers, rural economies, tax payers, consumers and policy makers. Will the view taken as the allocation debates develop be short-term gain to preserve the current situation or long-term investment in sustainable rural communities?
Starting Page	323
Ending Page	331
Page Count	9
File Format	PDF HTM / HTML
DOI	10.1017/S1074070800008609
Volume Number	31
Alternate Webpage(s)	http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/15373/files/31020323.pdf
Alternate Webpage(s)	https://doi.org/10.1017/S1074070800008609
Language	English
Access Restriction	Open
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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