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Tobacco had been cultivated and smoked by Native Americans for centuries before Christopher Columbus introduced it to Europe. Jane Pauley reports on how growing tobacco became America's first cash crop and Cultivation Tobacco Cash Crop Involves Careful Stock Photo 2490210447 Shutterstock Cash Crop to Cash Cow: The History of Tobacco and Smoking in America [eBook] The dried leaves of the tobacco plant became the major cash crop in colonial Virginia in 1612. Tobacco cultivation was an extremely labor intensive process. Insects were a constant nuisance; enslaved people not This young man is helping out with his family's tobacco crop. Amish farmers in Lancaster County (some of them, not all) raise tobacco to supplement dairy income. Photo: Don Shenk

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