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The government also paid them off to get out of tobacco farming. https://www.thestar.com/news/ontario/2008/08/01/feds_give_farmers_300m_to_exit_tobacco_industr
by Scoundreller 5y ago
The government also paid them off to get out of tobacco farming.
https://www.thestar.com/news/ontario/2008/08/01/feds_give_farmers_300m_to_exit_tobacco_industry.html https://www.thestar.com/news/ontario/2008/08/01/feds_give_fa...
Production went from 38m kg in 2005 to 9m kg in 2008, I don't doubt demand dropped by 74%, so someone else picked up the slack/production value and we just import from there.
Another supply-focussed war on drugs failure.
- ksaj 5y agoI didn't know about the cigarette smuggling convictions. Quite interesting. Out of the more than $1billion fine, it would be interesting to see how and where the money was allotted. A lot of ex-tobacco farms are now growing sweet potatoes for use in biofuel. I also saw ginseng, and I'm sure there are quite a few other crops they are working on.