The Australian government began to support the tobacco industry in the 1930s with the Local Leaf Content Scheme put into place. The scheme required that local tobacco made up a proportion of the manufacture of all Australian tobacco products. The proportion was raised until it reached 57% Australian tobacco leaf by 1977. By the early 1990s the Industry Commission made an enquiry into the tobacco industry. It found that tobacco was the most subsidised agricultural activity in Australia, receiving more than 12 times the assistance for all other agricultural activities. It announced tobacco as an inefficient, non-competitive market and as a result the Local Leaf Content scheme was abolished.
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