{"title":"King Tobacco and the Farm Boy","authors":"Robert Christensen","doi":"10.5149/northcarolina/9781469651040.003.0011","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Gov. Bob Scott was elected as a moderate and he had a less ambitious agenda than his father. His toughest legislative fight was pushing through the state’s first cigarette tax to finance a kindergarten system. This was a difficult in a state where “King Tobacco” was critical to the state’s economy.","PeriodicalId":288356,"journal":{"name":"The Rise and Fall of the Branchhead Boys","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2019-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"The Rise and Fall of the Branchhead Boys","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469651040.003.0011","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Gov. Bob Scott was elected as a moderate and he had a less ambitious agenda than his father. His toughest legislative fight was pushing through the state’s first cigarette tax to finance a kindergarten system. This was a difficult in a state where “King Tobacco” was critical to the state’s economy.