Tobacco is a contentious subject, as is its history. Native Americans have been growing and using tobacco longer than anyone else in the world since it was in North America where the plant originated.

Visitors mill around a bright red hilltop pagoda in southwestern China, gazing down at a sprawling cigarette factory whose ...

This industry is composed of small U.S. farms that grow and sell tobacco to cigarette companies and other tobacco product retailers. In 2005, consumers spent $88.7 billion on tobacco – a significant ...

https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7249/j.ctt3fh130.1 In November 1998, U.S. states and the major tobacco companies ended years of prolonged legal disputes by signing ...