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 ...

From the publisher. Tobacco Capitalism tells the story of the people who live and work on U.S. tobacco farms at a time when the global tobacco industry is undergoing profound changes. Against the ...

Children as young as seven are legally working on U.S. tobacco farms, and the practice is, not surprisingly, harming their the health. In a 138-page report titled "Tobacco's Hidden Children," ...

Although tobacco use is the leading cause of avoidable death globally, farming tobacco continues to provide the primary source of income to many farmers. But two Michigan Technological University ...