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  2. Cultivation of tobacco - Wikipedia

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    In late 2009 reports were released by the London-based human-rights group Plan International, claiming that child labor was common on Malawi (producer of 1.8% of the world's tobacco [5]) tobacco farms. The organization interviewed 44 teens, who worked full-time on farms during the 2007-2008 growing season.

  3. Rose Vesper - Wikipedia

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    Before entering and during her term in public office Vesper ran her own farm, growing tobacco, alfalfa, and cattle. [2] Due to her experience and interest in farming tobacco, Vesper was a member of an Ohio "Tobacco Settlement Task Force" in 1999. [4]

  4. History of commercial tobacco in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Slavery would mark a change from small tobacco farms, to larger farms, which necessitated large labour forces provided by the slaves. These large tobacco farms, accounted for a small part of the overall production of agriculture in the colonies leading into the later part of the 17th century, as tobacco had already begun to fail in less fertile ...

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  6. Mail Pouch Tobacco barn - Wikipedia

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    A Mail Pouch Tobacco barn, or simply Mail Pouch barn, is a barn with one or more sides painted with a barn advertisement for the West Virginia Mail Pouch chewing tobacco company (Bloch Brothers Tobacco Company). The program ran from 1891 to 1992, and at its height in the early 1960s, about 20,000 Mail Pouch barns were spread across 22 states.

  7. Burley (tobacco) - Wikipedia

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    Burley tobacco is a light air-cured tobacco used primarily for cigarette production. In the United States it is produced in an eight-state belt with approximately 70% produced in Kentucky . Tennessee produces approximately 20%, with smaller amounts produced in Indiana , North Carolina , Missouri , Ohio , Virginia , Maryland , Pennsylvania and ...

  8. Ohio House approves higher fines for selling tobacco to minors

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  9. List of museums in Ohio - Wikipedia

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    Operated by the Ohio History Connection, transportation and natural history of the Ohio River Ohio State Reformatory: Mansfield Richland Northeast Prison Late 19th-century prison in use until 1990 Ohio Tobacco Museum Ripley Brown Southwest Industry Tobacco farming and production [189] Ohio Valley River Museum Clarington: Monroe: Southeast Local ...