The bill leaves in place Government support for tobacco farmers.

Otherwise, there would be no money to buy out the tobacco farmers.

In Kentucky alone, more than 4,000 tobacco farmers have given up since 1998.

His father, a school teacher and tobacco farmer, was also a local rebel leader.

He can only buy it from other tobacco farmers, thereby putting them out of business.

Like everyone else, tobacco farmers have known for years that the future of the cigarette business was not bright.

We can only buy back the quotas which are not bought by other tobacco farmers.

The tobacco farmers would accept $13 billion in exchange for giving up a price support system that once served them well but no longer does.

"Tobacco farmers are contributing to the national finances, so I think they have political power."

One way or another many tobacco farmers are forced out of their livelihood.