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To: DJB who wrote (6400)	1/15/1998 12:24:00 PM
From: T.K. Allen	Respond to of 10368

Dennis: Good observation. Here is some information for the thread and maybe the VGM industry to consider. From the South Carolina Department of Agriculture, Marketing and Promotion Program (http://www.lpitr.state.sc.us/reports/p16aar96.htm): "Tobacco Program - Worked with seven tobacco markets to move the tobacco crop valued at 220 million dollars." How many dollars do you suppose the State of South Carolina spent to "market and promote" this death and destruction? According to the Clemson University Cooperative Extension Service (see cherokee.agecon.clemson.edu, the South Carolina tobacco Board gets $0.10 per 100 pounds of tobacco sold to "...administer programs of support for tobacco production, tobacco production research, tobacco marketing research, and dissemination of information on tobacco production and marketing...". According to the Clemson University Cooperative Extension Service (see cherokee.agecon.clemson.edu the amount of tobacco sold in 1997 was apparently somewhere between 535.5 and 878.8 MILLION pounds (I am not quite sure how to interpret data presented in this report). This means the South Carolina Tobacco Board apparently got somewhere between $535,500 and $878,800 to "market and promote" tobacco. I would like to see the VGM industry do some thorough research on this subject and nail Gov. Beasley, et al with this obvious hypocrisy. TKA