How can you respect a ticturd who started the whole..."You may be entitled to compensation if you, our a loved, one held a lawn mower up at its base and used it as a hedge clipper and had your fingers cut off
There was more to it than that. People who had sent their kids to college on 5-10 acre tobacco farms' yields now were all signed up to NOT produce the cash crop grown there since colonial days. (Tobacco was accepted as payment for taxes in some of the colonies, and as good as cash.)
You aren't going to make much money off of 5 acres of corn or soybeans.
A way of life, especially where I grew up, died out.
About the only folks there still growing tobacco are the Mennonites, who didn't sign agreements to not grow tobacco, but who are willing to grow what is still a labor intensive cash crop.