Tobacco and the Economy: Farms, Jobs, and Communities

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英文名称：

Tobacco and the Economy: Farms, Jobs, and Communities

作者：

Fred Gale; Linda Foreman; Thomas Capehart

工作单位：

USDA's Economic Research Service

来源地址：

https://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/pub-details/?pubid=41167

关键词：

tobacco;  tobacco income;  tobacco industry;  tobacco farmers; 

年份：

2000

出版地：

Washington, DC, USA

总页数：

44 pp

语种：

English

摘要：

Public health policies intended to reduce the incidence of smoking-related disease adversely affect thousands of tobacco farmers, manufacturers, and other businesses that produce, distribute, and sell tobacco products. This report assesses the likely impacts of declining tobacco demand, and identifies the types of workers, farms, businesses, and communities that are most vulnerable to loss of tobacco income and jobs. The dollar impact on the farm sector of a reduction in cigarette demand will be smaller than that experienced by manufacturing, wholesale, retail, and transportation businesses, but tobacco farms and their communities may have the most difficulty adjusting. Many tobacco farmers lack good alternatives to tobacco, and they have tobacco-specific equipment, buildings, and experience. Most communities will make the transition to a smaller tobacco industry with little difficulty, because tobacco accounts for a small share of the local economy. However, a number of counties depend on tobacco for a significant share of local income.