Blond tobacco leaves are quickly dried after harvest to preserve their light color and maintain a smoother, more delicate flavor
A 2021 NIH simulation projected that a 40% tax-induced price increase could reduce adult smoking prevalence from 21% to 15.2% over two decades, saving an estimated $317 billion in medical costs
Other global brands include Mevius and LD
A well-studied link also exists between smoking and many types of cancer
Because of the labor involved and the newness of the market, its not something you grow on a large-scale, but farmers are getting as much as double the price per pound compared to traditional tobacco, and thats very attractive. So attractive that, according to the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services spokeswoman, Dawn Eischen, in 2016, around 17 percent of the total volume of flue-cured tobacco grown in the Commonwealth was organic