The Nation - News from May 24, 1985
Several tobacco-state lawmakers, saying the tobacco price support program is in jeopardy, proposed to shift the program’s cost from the farmers to the smokers. The group, led by Rep. Charlie Rose (D-N.C.) and Sen. Albert Gore Jr. (D-Tenn.), introduced legislation that would add about 2 cents a pack to the excise tax levied on cigarettes. Revenue from the additional tax, which Rose estimated at about $500 million a year, would replace the assessments now made on growers.
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