On May 20, 8:50*pm, gregz > wrote:
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> A Moose in Love > wrote:
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> > On May 20, 6:08 pm, Ed Pawlowski > wrote:
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> >> On Sun, 20 May 2012 12:55:10 -0700 (PDT), A Moose in Love
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> >> > wrote:

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> >> It is interesting, but I'd rather see tobacco farmers plant a more
> >> acceptable food crop rather than something that poisons people. *Yes,
> >> it does provide jobs, but that can be phased out to something better.
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> > I think that many former tobacco farmers are getting into peanuts and
> > blueberries.
> > Ginseng is also big out there, but the ginseng tends to make the land
> > very lousy. *The fertility of the land is harmed by that crop.
>
> Yes but tobacco tax generates big money. 1 billion in pa, 1.5 billion in
> Texas, annually.
>
> Greg

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>
My grandfather always raised tobacco as a cash crop although he never
smoked, dipped, nor chewed.