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.
Tobacco is transplanted into the field as seedlings produced in greenhouses (about 85 percent) or in. plastic-covered outdoor plant beds. (Approximately 60 square feet of greenhouse space produce enough. plants for transplanting one acre in the field. Approximately 720 square feet of plant beds produce one.