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A lot of people were put out of a job when asbestos was banned, and tobacco was shown to cause cancer.
Funny I look out over my fence and all I can see is tobacco plants as far as the eye can see...
It still remains a cash crop mainly in Connecticut, Kentucky, North and South Carolina and Virginia....
U.S. tobacco production by state 2023 | Statista
Where is the top tobacco producing state? In the U.S. tobacco is mostly produced in North Carolina.
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Kentucky Tobacco Still No.1 for Some Farm Families
There is no doubt Kentucky agriculture has a long history in producing the best tobacco in the world and growers have done so for generations. Even as markets have changed, there are still farm families that depend on it t
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Tobacco: Windsor's Cash Crop - Windsor Historical Society
Windsorites have grown and harvested tobacco leaves for hundreds of years. Native Americans and early settlers both cultivated the crop. By the 1920s more than 30,000 acres in the 60-mile long Tobacco Valley, which runs from Portland, Connecticut to the southern tip of Vermont, were devoted to...
windsorhistoricalsociety.org
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