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  2. U.S. history of tobacco minimum purchase age by state

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    State tobacco laws partly changed in 1992 under the George H.W. Bush administration when Congress enacted the Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration Reorganization Act, whose Synar Amendment forced states to create their own laws to have a minimum age of eighteen to purchase tobacco or else lose funding from the Substance Abuse ...

  3. List of smoking bans in the United States - Wikipedia

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    At the same time, the Arkansas Protection from Secondhand Smoke for Children Act of 2006 went into effect, prohibiting smoking in a motor vehicle carrying a child under age six years old who weighs less than 60 pounds and is in a car seat. [25] Localities in Arkansas with smoking bans that include all bars and restaurants (3 total):

  4. Surgeon General report shows Arkansas among highest in nation ...

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    The report shows that in Arkansas cigarette smoking is among the highest in the nation, as well as tobacco-related cancers. American Lung Association gives Arkansas an ‘F’ for tobacco control

  5. Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement - Wikipedia

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    In the Smokeless Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement, which was executed at the same time as the Master Settlement Agreement, the leading manufacturer in the smokeless tobacco market (United States Tobacco Company, now known as U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company) settled with the jurisdictions who signed the MSA, plus Minnesota and Mississippi.

  6. History of commercial tobacco in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The Tobacco Kingdom: Plantation, Market, and Factory in Virginia and North Carolina, 1800-1860(Duke University Press, 1938), a major scholarly study. Robert, Joseph C. The Story of Tobacco in America (1959), by a scholar. online; Swanson, Drew A. A Golden Weed: Tobacco and Environment in the Piedmont South (Yale University Press, 2014) 360pp

  7. Photos show time when Weston was the only active tobacco ...

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    Additionally, health concerns from the effects of smoking cut the demand for tobacco products even further. An inspector from the Department of Agriculture examines a leaf of tobacco.

  8. Regulation of tobacco by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration

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    The Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act (also known as the FSPTC Act) was signed into law by President Barack Obama on June 22, 2009. This bill changed the scope of tobacco policy in the United States by giving the FDA the ability to regulate tobacco products, similar to how it has regulated food and pharmaceuticals since the passing of the Pure Food and Drug Act in 1906.

  9. Economy of the Confederate States of America - Wikipedia

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    The main prewar agricultural products of the Confederate States were cotton, tobacco, and sugarcane, with hogs, cattle, grain and vegetable plots. Pre-war agricultural production estimated for the Southern states is as follows (Union states in parentheses for comparison): 1.7 million horses (3.4 million), 800,000 mules (100,000), 2.7 million dairy cows (5 million), 5 million sheep (14 million ...