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To help ease the transition and offer small farmers a way out, a major component of FETTRA was the Tobacco Transition Payment Program, which was referred to by farmers as the buyout. Basically the companies wanted to deal with a few hundred bigger growers as opposed to thousands of smaller ones, explains Scott County agricultural extension agent, Scott Jerrell

"The problematic and the perplexing aspect of regulation, of course, is the individual versus the population level," says Geoffrey Fong, principal investigator at the International Tobacco Control Policy Evaluation Project at the University of Waterloo

There is a tradition of golfers oftentimes smoking in specific areas of a golf course, Recreation and Parks Department official Kevin Regan explained persuasively to the City Council at the time, and we dont want to have any effects on our revenue. Imagine how the City Council would treat a private business owner who made the same argument

Its high use might lead to more severe negative health effects

Then theres snuff, which is like dip but with a finer cut

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