JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. — Tom Lee doesn’t want the Mountain Empire’s tobacco history to go up in smoke. That’s why this associate professor of history at East Tennessee State University has launched a ...

Black tobacco farmers fight to preserve a legacy despite hardship and systemic injustice. This episode explores the rich yet challenging history of Black tobacco farmers in Virginia. From the earliest ...

Tobacco farming — once central to the South's economy and culture — has all but vanished from the region. The end of government support for the crop in 2005, coupled with a sharp decrease in smoking ...

Dark-fired tobacco, a lucrative crop used for pipe tobacco and cigars, has long been a lifeline for farmers in Robertson County, Tennessee. Despite its profitability, tobacco farming is facing ...

With the COVID-19 pandemic fading away, the World Health Organization (WHO) is returning to its core mission: making bogus, paternalistic attacks on tobacco users and producers. To promote its World ...

The L.W. Paul Living History Farm in Conway hosted the annual Tobacco Heritage Day on Aug. 3 with demonstrations of gathering, hand tying and hanging the tobacco in the curing barn. The farm, which is ...

Africa’s top tobacco grower is poised to take its place as one of the leading tobacco-growing nations in the world. However, farmers who work on contract farming schemes dominated by Chinese companies ...

ROBERTSON COUNTY, Tenn. (WKRN) — If there is one person who knows Robertson County history like the back of her hand, it’s Greenbrier native and County Historian Yolanda Reid. “I was surrounded by ...

"You still have all that to do today?" (Brush, brush, brush.) "No. . . . They's for tomorrow." Like a soft rhythmic percussion, the sound of tobacco being stripped off a stick accompanies the few ...

Land reforms gave Zimbabweans farms -- but contract tobacco deals have handed power to private companies. Zimbabwe's tobacco sector was once on the brink of collapse. Now, it's booming again. Last ...