[Brujo]

Thanks for the inside info. For some reason I thought tobacco was subsidized because I kind of remembered some controversy years ago about the Feds subsidizing it on one hand yet attacking the cigarette companies on the other.

Maybe in future I should do more detailed research before posting. (Naw, why spoil a post with something so mundane as facts? ;-)

[31M20RedDevil]

Well actually there has always been the idea there
was a subsidy,because there was what was called a
price support program where if the tobacco didn`t
bring the support price it went into the gov warehouse
where it would later sell.

It`s my understanding it didn`t cost the taxpayer as
it was eventually sold at the price the gov paid.