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Tobacco

by W. W. Yeargin, 2006
Additional research provided by Wiley J. Williams.

See also: American Tobacco Company; Brown and Williamson Tobacco Company; Bull Durham Tobacco; R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company; W. Duke Sons and Company; Tobacco Barrels: Hogsheads; Inventions in the Tobacco Industry; Tobacco Belts; Tobacco Auctions

Part i: Introduction; Part ii: Development and Growth of the North Carolina Tobacco Industry; Part iii: The Rise of "Big Tobacco"; Part iv: Legal Challenges and the Decline of the Industry; Part v: References

Part V: References

Jerome E. Brooks, Green Leaf and Gold: Tobacco in North Carolina (2nd ed., 1997).

Philip J. Hilts, Smoke Screen: The Truth behind the Tobacco Industry Cover-Up (1996).

Roy Norr, "Cancer by the Carton," Reader's Digest 61 (December 1952).

North Carolina Rural Economic Development Center, The Economic Impact of the 1998 Tobacco Settlement on the North Carolina Economy (2000).

Subjects: 
Agriculture
Tobacco
Authors: 
Yeargin, W. W.
From: 
Encyclopedia of North Carolina, University of North Carolina Press.

1 January 2006 | Yeargin, W. W.