---
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"
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](/usc/7/4531.md?p=5) 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.