Charts and Graphics on U.S. Tobacco Farming and Related Trends
Updated 6.27.03
Disappearing U.S. Tobacco Farms (and U.S. Tobacco Factory Workers)
Declining Number of Tobacco Farms in the USA, 1954-1997
Decline in Non-Farm U.S. Tobacco Manufacturing Employees 1977-2000
Declining Tobacco-Growing Quotas & Reduced Tobacco Farming Incomes
U.S. Tobacco-Growing Quotas For Flue-Cured & Burley Tobacco, 1980-2003
Where The Tobacco Dollars Went - 1980
Where The Tobacco Dollars Went - 1998
U.S. Tobacco Leaf Prices versus. U.S. Manufacturers' Cigarette Prices 1960-2002
U.S. Cigarette Companies' Reduced Use of American-Grown Tobacco in American-Made Cigarettes
U.S. Cigarette Company Purchases of U.S. Flue-Cured & Burley Tobacco Since 1990
Declining Percentage of U.S. Tobacco Leaf in American-Made Cigarettes, 1960 - 2001
Actual Amounts of U.S. Tobacco In American-Made Cigarettes versus Amounts Needed if 25% Limit on Foreign Tobacco Had Been Enforced, 1980 - 2001
Additional U.S. Leaf Needed For American-Made Cigarettes If 25% Limit On Foreign Leaf Had Been Enforced, 1980 - 2001
The U.S. Cigarette Companies' Shift From Exporting American-Made Cigarettes to Manufacturing Their Brands Overseas (Thereby Using Less U.S. Tobacco)
Philip Morris Foreign Cigarette Sales versus Total U.S. Cigarette Exports, 1988-2002
Philip Morris U.S. versus International Cigarette Sales 1990-2002
Morris U.S. versus International Tobacco Revenues 1981-2002
Increased Competition From Foreign Tobacco Farmers – Caused Largely By Foreign Tobacco Farmers Receiving Seeds, Supplies, and Financial and Technical Assistance from the Major Cigarette Companies and the U.S. based International Leaf Dealers.
Declining U.S. Share of World Tobacco Leaf Exports, 1982-2002
U.S. Versus Foreign Production of Flue-Cured Tobacco 1976-2001
U.S. vs. Foreign Production of Burley Tobacco, 1976-2001
1998 Burley Leaf Prices In USA and Selected Countries
1998 Flue-cured Leaf Prices in USA and Selected Countries
Changes in Flue-cured Leaf Production in USA and in Selected Countries, 1980-82 to 1996-98
Changes in Burley Leaf Production in USA and in Selected Countries, 1980-82 to 1996-98
Declining Consumption of Cigarettes in the United States.
U.S. Growing Quotas for Cigarette Tobacco versus U.S. Cigarette Consumption, 1990-2003
Cigarette Company Prices and Federal Cigarette Taxes vs. U.S. Cigarette Consumption, 1960-2002
