Documentary about dark fired tobacco. I thought some here might like to know.

[powderman]

http://www.whas11.com/news/national/190668881.html
 
New documentary explores dark fired tobacco  by AP  WHAS11.com Posted on February 11, 2013 at 8:28 AM      LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) -- A new documentary explores the production of dark-fired tobacco by the farmers of Calloway County, who consider it an art form.
 
Western Kentucky's deep green crop is smoked in barns with wood-chip fires, unlike the burley produced in Central and Eastern Kentucky that is cured by summer heat.
 
And the dark-fired tobacco is used for snuff or chewing tobacco, not cigarettes.
 
Will Snell is a tobacco expert at the University of Kentucky. He told the Lexington Herald-Leader (http://bit.ly/UWhKNE) that unlike burley, dark-fired tobacco for smokeless products has been booming. The market for dark-fired tobacco has been growing about 4 percent to 6 percent a year for the past 25 years.
 
The film is called Farming in the Black Patch, and it debuts Monday on Kentucky Education Television.
 

[Defoe]

Many people who give up smoking, take up chewing or dipping.  maybe not quite as dangerous??

[powderman]

Many people who give up smoking, take up chewing or dipping.  maybe not quite as dangerous??

 
Not for the lungs but it causes mouth and throat cancer. I saw 2 friends die a horrible death from that, I quit chewing 15 years ago, smoking 14 years ago. POWDERMAN.