Isnt the real problem the fact that smoking is decreasing in Canada, which has reduced the market for tobacco?
The economic devastation faced by tobacco farmers in Canada is not as much a result of the declining prevalence or consumption rates in our country, but more the result of conflicting government policies that have indirectly and increasingly encouraged tobacco contraband and micro-producers outside of Tobacco Advisory Committee negotiations. Essentially, we now have two sets of rules which does not support the legal marketplace.
