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From tobacco fields to Wilmington-shot 'Matlock,' a Tar Heel actor reflects on his career
Some of his best passages come early, recalling summers spent on his uncles' farms, working in the tobacco fields. The Life of a Blue Collar Actor By Jordan Rhodes Rhodes Productions, $19.95 paperback ...
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New Report Reveals Ohio Must Focus on Increasing the Cigarette Tax by $1.50 Per Pack to Reduce Death and Disease from Tobacco Use
American Lung Association “State of Tobacco Control” report releases Ohio grades for tobacco control policies, outlines steps to reduce burden of tobacco ...
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Betty Wood on the implications of tobacco on labor needs in Virginia
And fairly early on the English ruled out the possibility of Native Americans as a work force in their tobacco fields. It was to England itself that Virginia planters turned for labor in the 1620s ...
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Farmworkers in America: State of fear in tobacco fields
Oxfam and FLOC conducted a joint study of the tobacco industry’s impact on the human rights of farmworkers in the fields of North Carolina. One in four—22 out of the 86 workers interviewed—reported ...