tobacco
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Posted: April 13, 2023
Pinar del Río, the region in Western Cuba where most of the country’s premium tobacco is grown, is facing perhaps the worst tobacco harvest in history, according to a report by Granma, the Cuban state-run newspaper. The lingering effects of Hurricane Ian, which destroyed most of Pinar del Río’s tobacco barns in late September, are largely to blame.
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Posted: October 28, 2021
It has been historically accepted that indigenous peoples in the New World began smoking tobacco approximately 3,000 years ago, a delightful find that Sir Walter Raleigh brought back to England in the sixteenth century. But recently unearthed evidence now strongly suggests that tobacco use is far older than originally believed, and has been part of North American history for some 12,000 years.