About 49% of millennials think the nation's best years are ahead, the survey found. That's a higher percentage than among baby boomers (44%) and generation X (42%), the generation between boomers and millennials.
1 Farms in the United States produced nearly 800 million pounds of tobacco in 2012. 2  In 2012, tobacco was grown in 19 U.S. states, with North Carolina, Kentucky, and Georgia accounting for nearly 80% of production.n 2012, tobacco companies spent $9.6 billion marketing cigarettes and smokeless tobacco in the United States alone. This amount translates to about $26 million each day, or more than $1 million every hour. 1.
The soil and cli-mate in this region are well suited to tobacco produc-tion, and the topography permits large-scale farmingoperations. Tobacco growers in this region averaged419 acres in total, with an average of 42.8 in tobacco.Agriculture is more diversified in the Coastal Plainthan in other regions.Tobacco accounted for only 20percent of agricultural production in the region, and 30percent of Coastal Plain farms grew tobacco in 1996.38 vTobacco and the Economy / AER-789 Economic Research Service/USDA Farms in the Pee Dee-Lumber River region are evenlarger than those in the Coastal Plain region.obacco accounted for only 20percent of agricultural production in the region, and 30percent of Coastal Plain farms grew tobacco in 1996. 38 vTobacco and the Economy / AER-789 Economic Research Service/USDA Farms in the Pee Dee-Lumber River region are evenlarger than those in the Coastal Plain region.