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As yields fell, they moved their operations westward. By the time of the Revolutionary War, Virginia was exporting around 55 million pounds of tobacco per year from farms distributed throughout the colony, and, while records are imprecise, had imported a labor force of more than 200,000 African slaves to work its many plantations

These states also tend to have lower life expectancy rates

In the United States, attention to tobacco farming has of late been centered on fair and just labor practices, to include the protection of child tobacco workers