Virginia Tobacco NOT from Virginia!?!?!

[admin]

Here's the new June article By Russ Ouellette. Did you know that Virginia Tobacco isn't necessarily from Virginia?
Virginia Tobacco NOT from Virginia!?!?!

 

[winton]

Very informative.

 

[nemrod]

Very informative indeed.

 

[admin]

Please remember to comment on the articles themselves too. Please!

 

[lordnoble]

Awesome article. This is one of the reasons I continually come back to this site. Thanks, Kevin & Russ!
-Jason

 

[smooth]

tobacco seeds are planted almost everywhere.......... with various results
http://pipesmagazine.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/album/4103/virginia-150x125.jpg

 

[smooth]

try again
http://pipesmagazine.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/album/4103/virginia.jpg

 

[cortezattic]

Seeds sold at SeedGnome.com

 

[adam12]

For a minute I thought that we were going to be informed that Virginia tobacco comes from China

 

[jchaplick]

Haha, China, yeah I was always under the assumption that Virginia tobacco was more or less just a type of tobacco, I figured there was no way it all could have been grown in virginia.

 

[smooth]

To date, no one is admitting the import of tobacco from China, but who doubts it?

 

[cortezattic]

Wikipedia has a couple of articles on China and tobacco.

It reports: "...China is the world's largest consumer and producer of tobacco:

• there are 350 million Chinese smokers, and
  
  China produces 42% of the world's cigarettes.
  
  The China National Tobacco Corporation ... is by sales the largest single manufacturer of tobacco products in the world..."

I read somewhere, possibly Russ Ouellette, that they produce enormous quantities of leaf, they just don't export very much, yet .

 

[keith929]

Great article. My father in law in NC used to grow Virginia tobacco back in the 70s before the conglomerates killed the family farmer.

 

[lifeon2]

SO with china having 350,000,000 smokers and the U.S. having a population of 311,800,000 that means china has more smokers than we have people so even though they produce 42% of the worlds cigs I could see how there wouldnt be too many left to export.