Table of Contents:
  • 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
  • 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