did tobacco come from the old world | Cultivation, Curing & Grading Tobacco in Virginia

It makes me wonder if people just think that because of the name

Tobacco is a labor-intensive crop, and the children interviewed described participating in a range of tasks, including: planting seedlings, weeding, topping tobacco to remove flowers, removing nuisance leaves (called suckers), applying pesticides, harvesting tobacco leaves by hand or with machines, cutting tobacco plants with tobacco knives and loading them onto wooden sticks with sharp metal points, lifting sticks with several tobacco plants, hanging up and taking down sticks with tobacco plants in curing barns, and stripping and sorting dried tobacco leaves

Compliance is everyones responsibility

The smoke smells like last nights dinner burning to a black crisp on the kitchen stove, mixed with a long-decomposing corpse

Eggplant has a high concentration of nicotine