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Tobacco Country's Dirtiest Open Secret - - Crop insurance was created to protect farmers from financial losses due to natural disasters or low crop prices. Unfortunately, due to poor regulation by USDA, Big Tobacco has been one of the biggest users of crop insurance, using it as a way to shift liability for their products onto taxpayers while still profiting off of them. The bottom line is that crop insurance fraud costs taxpayers around a billion dollars a year.

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Tobacco Country's Dirtiest Open Secret - - Crop insurance was created to protect farmers from financial losses due to natural disasters or low crop prices. Unfortunately, due to poor regulation by USDA, Big Tobacco has been one of the biggest users of crop insurance, using it as a way to shift liability for their products onto taxpayers while still profiting off of them. The bottom line is that crop insurance fraud costs taxpayers around a billion dollars a year.