USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Environmental impacts of tobacco farming include massive use of water, large-scale deforestation, and contamination of the air and water systems. Many countries that grow and/or produce tobacco are low-or middle-income countries and some of them face substantive food insecurity, and even hunger.

Detailed explanation-2: -Tobacco formed the basis of the colony’s economy: it was used to purchase the indentured servants and enslaved laborers to cultivate it, to pay local taxes and tithes, and to buy manufactured goods from England.

Detailed explanation-3: -Tobacco was one of the most important crops in colonial America; it was the main reason that Jamestown and North Carolina remained viable in the 1600s and 1700s.

Detailed explanation-4: -Smoking causes cancer, heart disease, stroke, lung diseases, diabetes, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), which includes emphysema and chronic bronchitis. Smoking also increases risk for tuberculosis, certain eye diseases, and problems of the immune system, including rheumatoid arthritis.