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Mon., July 11, 2011 3:50am
Georgia’s tobacco acreage is expected to hold steady this year, thanks to a new buyer in the state and high demand in Asia. Tobacco acreage has been dropping for two decades. Experts expected fewer acres of the crop to be planted this year, but now estimates from the U.S. Agriculture Department project Georgia farmers will plant about 11,000 acres of tobacco, the same amount as last year.
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Tue., January 4, 2011 12:00am
Voters might have resuscitated the push for increased tobacco taxes when they rejected increased car tag fees this November. The car tag fees were on the ballot to fund a statewide trauma care network. Now business groups -- who campaigned for the trauma care measure -- are urging lawmakers to increase the tobacco tax in the upcoming legislative session
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Mon., March 8, 2010 3:40pm
With polls showing more than 75 percent of Georgians willing to accept $1 t
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Fri., October 9, 2009 4:07am
Net revenue collections for September were about $1.3 billion, compared to
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