tobacco heritage trail trailhead - la crosse South Hill to LaCrosse Multi Trail Tobacco Heritage Trail (Brodnax)

The record label Friedman created for the project was called Blue Mold Records. As anyone in the South of a certain age who can remember spending their summers in the fields can attest, blue mold is a fungus that attacks tobacco plants

[6] In 1970, President Richard Nixon signed the Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act, which banned cigarettes ads on the radio or television

The study, published in the European Journal of Human Genetics, found the sons of the early smokers had the highest body mass index -- 11 to 22 pounds heavier -- compared to the sons of men who started smoking later or who never smoked

Thats especially unfortunate, considering the centuries-long, deeply rooted traditions associated with the tobacco plant among Indigenous people