Seeing as smokers in North America are a dying breed(literally) as opposed to the huge increase in..oh..say Asia, where does the money from taxation come from.Yes..eventually there will be a saving in not paying for the care the health system provides for lung cancer patients, but that is way down the road.As for the farmer, there has been incentives for years in tobbacco growing areas to switch to peanuts, which Picards has been a front runner, and profitable buisness, and not only that..the nuts are higher rated and healthier than those grown in the southern U.S.(something to do with the drying process and the chemicals produced during it).
Its really not that much different than farmers changing from oats to soy or the biggest boom now, rapeseed(oooh sorry to be politically correct its canola).

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But the problem is, nowadays, peanuts is also seen as evil.

Like, hey, y'know, wow, like its, you know, kinda like back in the sixties, man, out in Perth County? The CONSPIRACY was like, hey man, The Man says grow 'em high for RJ and all around y'know, like, Woodstock and Tilsonburg and all them, was like, wow, something bad goin' down, all around, man. Like, major bummer. Only, hey, no way, not in Perth County, man!

Like, wow, you know, the road side vendors, man, all along High-Way Seven over Eight, like. Wow, they weren't sellin' corn, man, and they weren't bendin' it for The Man RJ either. No way. They was groovin' in Perth, man, they was ...

I forgot what I was goin' to say, man.

No, wait, yeah, wow, like those cats in Perth, those groovy farm dudes, man, they was groooovin' jus' fine. It was like, like, like ...

So like, hey, wow, like why all the long faces, man? Like, hey, why don't they just get their shit together and CHANGE, man? Like Dylan, man, go electric and get with it, you know, the happenin', like, wow, hey, get the vibe and grow something positive, like?

Hey, like maybe raise a little Elephant Grass?

Like, wow.

Bub, you certainly have had too much elephant stew. It is cashew nuts we use in Kung Pao Chicken Ding.

... Chinese medicine, bub. Peanuts is, indeed, a very good yin nurishing food to have in the fall:)

You surpursed me.