Witness the last American tobacco harvest: The most comprehensive documentary about tobacco farming, tobacco curing, and tobacco harvesting ever produced offers a glimpse into America's past, the extinct tobacco auction system and the future of the tobacco industry.

This enigmatic subculture must not be forgotten, and is preserved here through images of farmers in the fields of North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee and Virginia, reenactments at Jamestown colony, photographs of farm life from the United States Library of Congress, classic cigarette advertisements for Duke Tobacco Company products like Montclair Cigarettes or Red Velvet tobacco, old radio broadcasts sponsored by the American Tobacco Company and rare newsreel footage and vintage photographs from the American Civil War, WWII through the 1950s and 1960s, interviews with U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell, VP of Leaf at Philip Morris USA, CEO of the American Heart Association, the world's leading agronomists from the University of Kentucky and celebrated historians.

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