[Leica] a new one

[sdp35 at cwazy.co.uk (sdp35)]

Yes, Jesse was from The Old North State.  Loved by some, detested by 
not quite as many.  But you always knew exactly where he stood on 
anything...

On Apr 11, 2004, at 2:11 PM, Jeffery Smith wrote:

> Wasn't the very black-toothed Jessie Helms from NC? Not a great poster
> boy for tobacco interests.
>
> Jeffery Smith
> New Orleans, LA
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-bounces+jls=runbox.com@leica-users.org
> [mailto:lug-bounces+jls=runbox.com@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of David
> Mason
> Sent: Sunday, April 11, 2004 9:11 AM
> To: Leica Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Leica] a new one
>
> Tina Manley wrote:
>
>>> I'm back after a week in Kentucky. There seem to be more die-hard
>>> smokers in Kentucky (where lots of tobacco is grown) than even in
> North
>>> Carolina (where all of the tobacco companies are based).
>
>
> Actually there are no more tobacco companies in N.C. They are all gone.
> We still have loads of growers and one or two auction houses left(if 
> you
>
> have never seen a tobacco auction - you should!). Still, N.C. acts like
> a tobacco state despite the massive decline in tobacco business. There
> are no towns with smoking bans in N.C. and it is generally considered a
> 'public right' outside of the major cities.
>
> Here is a small anecdote - when I was in high school ('87) we had a
> smoking section outside (years before there were ashtrays inside the
> school halls). Keep in mind that my hometown was the number one grower
> of tobacco in the World in the 70s. At some point the school
> administration decided to close the smoking section as it was getting
> too popular - when they did we actually had some parents coming out to
> protest the action. The pressure grew so large that they opened it back
> up. I remember signs like "my son picks it, he should smoke it." I've
> been told that it was successfully closed a few years later - but that
> is where I grew up!
>
> Being a non-smoker, the one positive I take from growing up in the area
> is my memory of the smell of cured tobacco during auction time. The
> whole town smelled of it when all those farmers brought their crops in
> to sell. It is a sweet, rich smell that I LOVE - its too bad people 
> ruin
>
> that by burning it :)
>
> Dave
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