[From "The Proxy War on Tobacco"]

If I were to list the most influential crops in American, and especially Dixian, history, tobacco would be right at the top[…]Whites have grown tobacco in the Americas, especially the Upper South, for centuries and it has long been a major part of the region’s economy, especially in North Carolina and Virginia[…]The rest of the world has loved it for a long time, to the point where American tobacco is considered a status symbol
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Against this backdrop of history, we can see just how bizarre the War on Tobacco has been. I can think of few times when a nation has worked so diligently to snuff out a highly valuable crop[…]I am too young to remember when tobacco companies could advertise on television
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Before I begin, let me say that I do not smoke. I’ve been known to smoke a pipe every now and again and a cigar even less frequently, but smoking is not an activity I regularly partake in. I do not doubt the health problems associated with smoking
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Still, tobacco is an important part of Dixie’s culture, and it is something I admire
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When the War on Tobacco came, all of this was lost. What had been the major driving economic industry, in both North Carolina and Virginia, was gone in almost a single generation[…]Tobacco, as with most agricultural products, tries to adhere to a certain degree of continuity. But that is not the case with banking or Big Tech, the destruction of traditional norms rules the day
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When Dixian Nationalists discuss what has happened to Dixie in the past few decades, the two biggest culprits named, and for good reason, are increased external and internal immigration and an education system designed to make Southern children into obedient Yankees
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The War on Tobacco was a proxy war on Dixie. Not just by attacking a major cultural institution, but also one that brought in millions of dollars a year