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The Tobacco Buyout: a Game-Changer

May 12th, 2010 Posted in General tobacco Tags:

Tobacco has even been cause for wars. In the early 1900′s the American Tobacco Association or ATC had a monopoly over tobacco prices. In areas near Hopkinsville, many farmers weren’t making profit from the low fixed price offered from the ATC. When the Dark Tobacco District Planters’ Protective Association failed to protect farmers, vigilantes took up the burden. Men called the “night riders” sewed salt in tobacco fields, whipped farmers, and dynamited tobacco warehouses in Elkton, Kentucky. Finally, tobacco prices went up and farmers could make a profit. Read more

Tobacco Troubles: Crop shift up in smoke

May 8th, 2010 Posted in Tobacco industry Tags: ,

Colin Yarmie pulls the little spout from its water-filled growing tray and gestures toward the thousands of other tobacco plants crammed into two steamy greenhouses on his family farm. By the end of May, Mr. Yarmie says, all will be planted in nearby fields, filling 90 acres (36.4 hectares) with Canada’s most controversial cash crop. Read more

The Secret Cult of Office Smokers

May 7th, 2010 Posted in General tobacco Tags:

I have never taken even one puff of a cigarette, which is how I’ve always known that smoking is cool. However, my faith in that assumption is weakened every time I walk by an office building. All those people shivering outside in their little smoking leper colony replaces the James Dean-era image of motorcycle freedom with one of Henry Ford-era dirty workers taking their elevenses with bourbon from the factory store. Read more

USPS Issues Tobacco Mailing Rules

May 7th, 2010 Posted in General tobacco Tags:

The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) earlier this week published a Notice of Proposed Rule to implement the provisions of the PACT Act, which prohibits the mailing of cigarettes, roll-your-own tobacco and smokeless tobacco, according to a report by the National Association of Tobacco Outlets (NATO). Read more

Tobacco season begins

April 28th, 2010 Posted in Tobacco companies Tags: ,

A local farmer, who was scrambling to make up a portion of his income lost when Phillip Morris International announced late last year that it would no longer buy from Lenoir County farmers, has found other sources and is now hard at work transplanting this year’s crop. Read more