Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
Specialty Tobacco Council Inc
North Carolina
74 filings from 2 registrants · 2008–2026 · latest filed Jul 21, 2026
Reported on its behalf
$1.4M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$1.1M
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$320K
across every firm on file
Spend over time
Every filing period on record, as reported. One column per filed period — a period with no column is a period with no filing, not a zero.
Basis · Amendments and terminations supersede the original report for the same registrant, client and period, so a revised quarter is counted once at its latest filed value. Registration-only filings carry no activity money and are excluded from these totals.
Who lobbies for them
Every outside firm that has filed on this client's behalf, by fees reported.
Reported as lobbying expenses
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Tobacco
TOB
74 filings
$1.4M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
74 filings
$1.4M on those filings
Note · A filing names one to several issue areas and reports a single dollar figure for the period, so the same money appears beside every issue that filing declares. The dollar column is therefore — it is not a split of the total, and these figures sum above it. Filing counts do not double-count.
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
- Henry Roemer Specialty Tobacco Council, Inc.Covered position: N/A70 filingsthrough 2026
- James E Smith The Smith-Free Group, LLC6 filingsthrough 2009
- JACK S DEUSER jr The Smith-Free Group, LLC6 filingsthrough 2009
- W. Timothy Locke The Smith-Free Group, LLC6 filingsthrough 2009
- James C Free The Smith-Free Group, LLC4 filings
The filings
The 20 most recent of 74 filings. Every figure above is built from these records.
This record groups every filed spelling of the client's name into one entity, so "MERCK & CO., INC." and "MERCK & CO INC" read as the same company. The grouping is the client's normalized name — organizations that file under genuinely different names appear separately. Handle: specialty-tobacco-council-inc.