[quote=njtosd]According to the South Carolina tobacco board, tobacco farming still is alive and well in the northeast, but doesn’t seem to be as common in the northwest (Greenville) area. This is an important difference, as nicotine is very volatile – if you stand in a tobacco field and breath it in, you can get a significant dose of nicotine. Not something I’d want next door . . .[/quote]
I swear I couldn’t stop laughing for 20 minutes.
Unfortunately most of the tobacco fields have been overrun by cheap slap’em up McMansions to appease all the “outsiders” that insist on moving here. The removal of the quota system has also driven a good bit of farmland to other production. Sure tobacco is still grown around here, but it’s greatly reduced.
Don’t worry, it won’t run out of the field and force you to smoke it or bite you in your ass.
