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Volume 351:1377-1380 September 30, 2004 Number 14
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The Tobacco Buyout and the FDA
Steven A. Schroeder, M.D.

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An unlikely alliance between tobacco growers and tobacco-control advocates will be tested this fall, as a congressional conference committee attempts to reconcile separate versions of tobacco legislation that the House and the Senate have attached to the Foreign Sales Corporation Act. On June 17, 2004, the House voted to abolish a long-standing quota system (whereby a defined number of farmers are permitted to grow tobacco in quantities set by the government each year) and to pay $9.6 billion from the federal treasury to tobacco farmers to ease the transition. In addition, the House bill would eliminate all existing restrictions on . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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From the Smoking Cessation Leadership Center, University of California, San Francisco.



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