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Article: Philip Morris Parent's Tobacco-Licensing Proposal Draws Fire.
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- March 29, 2003
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By Martha Quillin, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Mar. 29--RALEIGH, N.C.--A licensing program for growing tobacco suggested by one of its competitors may not be allowed under World Trade Organization rules governing crop subsidies, Philip Morris officials said Friday.
John F. Scruggs, a lobbyist for Altria Group Inc., the parent company of Philip Morris, said at a news conference in Raleigh that the proposal by Lorillard Tobacco Inc. is "not realistic."
Lorillard's proposal is one of many suggestions put forward since 2001 as a means of eliminating the federal tobacco price-support program known as ...