In the U.S., children under the age of 18 are legally barred from purchasing cigarettes or other tobacco products. But they are allowed to harvest tobacco on farms. Despite a worldwide decline in ...

Despite a worldwide decline in production, tobacco remains North Carolina's most valuable crop. During the picking season, it's all hands on deck — and some of those hands belong to kids as young as 7 ...

Cecil Taylor shares his family history of tobacco farming. Cecil Shell, a Black farmer in Southern Virginia, shares his family history of tobacco farming and remembers traditional techniques from his ...

The southern United States is a vast expanse of fields and undeveloped land, much of of which has been used for growing tobacco for hundreds of years. Tobacco is a terrific cash crop, and tobacco ...

Breland Hill Farms provides tobacco to R.J. Reynolds and Santa Fe Natural tobacco companies. During harvesting season, Jerry estimates that about one-half of a semi truck worth of tobacco moves ...

When Grant Jeffrey Garst was in high school, he started doing just what his daddy and grandfather had done before him: growing tobacco. Now he’s 28 years old with a wife, an 18-month-old daughter, and ...

Michigan Tech researchers contend that tobacco farmers could increase profits by converting their land to solar farms, which in turn provides renewable energy generation. Although tobacco use is the ...

Last year alone, tobacco earned $1.2bn, but statistics show that tobacco farmers are responsible for ravaging 60,000 hectares of forests each year, around 20% of the country’s total forest loss of 262 ...

Malawi’s tobacco sector is facing mounting structural weaknesses driven by oversupply, weak market governance, declining ...