In states running from Pennsylvania to Florida, hard-working American farmers cultivate a legal cash crop known as tobacco.
With a cold-blooded intensity, unknown in the history of this republic, anti-smoking activists have endlessly worked to put these same farmers out of business.
This, as the title suggests, is the story of bright-leaf tobacco.
It comes not from the liberal press, not from the equally liberal media, but from a North Carolinian who worked in his daddy and uncle’s tobacco fields from the age of six until the age of eighteen.
Without the convenience of modern mechanization, we cultivated eight acres of bright-leaf tobacco with a small IH Farmall Cub tractor, which we shuttled from farm to farm.
With the same sense of determination, my mama worked tirelessly for American Tobacco in Reidsville NC from 1945 until her retirement in 1980.
Based upon her employment experience, she could not have worked for a better company.
Therefore, my friends, I have a much different perspective of tobacco farmers and companies than do the same anti-smoking activists.
WARNING:
The Surgeon-General has determined that reading this publication may be hazardous to your health.
With a cold-blooded intensity, unknown in the history of this republic, anti-smoking activists have endlessly worked to put these same farmers out of business.
This, as the title suggests, is the story of bright-leaf tobacco.
It comes not from the liberal press, not from the equally liberal media, but from a North Carolinian who worked in his daddy and uncle’s tobacco fields from the age of six until the age of eighteen.
Without the convenience of modern mechanization, we cultivated eight acres of bright-leaf tobacco with a small IH Farmall Cub tractor, which we shuttled from farm to farm.
With the same sense of determination, my mama worked tirelessly for American Tobacco in Reidsville NC from 1945 until her retirement in 1980.
Based upon her employment experience, she could not have worked for a better company.
Therefore, my friends, I have a much different perspective of tobacco farmers and companies than do the same anti-smoking activists.
WARNING:
The Surgeon-General has determined that reading this publication may be hazardous to your health.
