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ini~!ur.try .
First, it i .U a ].n.rC .e Wuntry, sorvin£; rnore than
70,000,000 Nb.ericanEi who uoo the indur,tr,y'r products .
Second, St is Qne C?f t4bi : IOor.t S .InpUrtant to America's
i.ntc r nntion al trade .
Third, it is one of i :bc a?ost productive i.ndustries
f.rom the tnn: standpoint in ite contri.butAou to s t ate and
o:edcra7 revem.+on .
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'Phe ab rolute siee of the kndufrtlry cnn be conveyed In
round nwnberr; by a fow fii;uros, In 1964, coneumerE; spent
ovor $8 billi .on for tobecco producto . This expenditure
providod yobs for 1,300,000 poreons,
Tobacco Aso this country's fifth 1ar£,est cash crop .
Around 700,000 fara;, Saeni.A .i.es grow tubacco, giving ompl.oy-•
msnt to r>omE: 900,000 peoplo, %n rsix mtates ••- Worth
Caroliira, Itentucky, Bouth Carolina, V 9 .rgi.nia, Goorgia, and
R'enncse,ee -- tobac:co farnwing io a taa,yor producer of income,
a pxi.neipaA eaeh crop, and the ovet^a] .1 frr .rm ecbnomy is
hmavil.y dependent on the rovonuos brought In by tobacco
1.caR Ealo e , Tobacco i .s ; also grown i.n 70 other states .
Any eiubctant.i.al reduction in the demand for leaf
tobacco viould rayui.re a drantic roor€:ani.r,a.tion in the
oeonowies of these fmn5.ly farmE : ; .md no ;farro econor.aist with
wiw[a I have talked Iio-u3 bE+en able to eW.(;gest a substitute
ParfA Ck'(Yp prOducitl(t, anythint9' li .ke tl2e rSn}pe revenue pe%'
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