Why not have marches against tobacco 3651

"Fairly easy"? Ha! You have obviously never been around tobacco growing. sugar is an easy to grow weed. Tobacco, on the other hand, is extremely difficult to grow and cure. First, you have to obtain the extremely expensive seeds. Then, you need to clear a patch of virgin land in the woods to start the plants, because if they are started in soil that has ever grown tobacco (or tomatoes), the tobacco mosaic fungus will kill them before they even get started. They must be hand transplanted to the tobacco field, then hoed and suckered regularly as they grow. When the tobacco is harvested, it has to be tied to poles and suspended in the tobacco barn at just the right density, then the temperature and ventilation in the barn must be adjusted constantly while it cures. All this work, of course, gets done in the hottest part of the summer, and it is sticky, back-breaking work indeed. Do you really think there would be many people who would be willing to go to all this trouble. Phooey. Not many people are even willing to make their own bread, and that's FUN to do.

--Rich