---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 U.S.C. § 2254b"
title: "7"
title_heading: "Agriculture"
number: "2254b"
heading: "Availability of funds appropriated for Agricultural Research Service for research related to tobacco or tobacco products; exception"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/7/2254b"
units:
  - "Chapter 55 — Department of Agriculture"
---

# §2254b. Availability of funds appropriated for Agricultural Research Service for research related to tobacco or tobacco products; exception


On and after December 26, 2007, none of the funds appropriated under this heading shall be available to carry out research related to the production, processing, or marketing of tobacco or tobacco products: Provided further, That on and after December 26, 2007, this paragraph shall not apply to research on the medical, biotechnological, food, and industrial uses of tobacco.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 110–161, div. A, title I, Dec. 26, 2007, 121 Stat. 1851.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

This heading, referred to in text, refers to the headings “Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service” and “research and education activities” of title I of div. A of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2008, Pub. L. 110–161.