Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/04/11

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Subject: [Leica] a new one
From: daniel_ridings at yahoo.se (Daniel Ridings)
Date: Sun Apr 11 19:37:25 2004
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On Sun, 11 Apr 2004, Jeffery Smith wrote:

> Until this thread, I didn't realize that tobacco production had died
> down as much has it has.

It's fallen a LOT. Zimbabwe grows very high quality tobacco. Much of the
"Virginian" tobacco is Zimbabwean (formerly Rhodesian).

It used to be their cash crop, bringing in fortunes for the whole country.
It has more or less collapsed now ... and not only because of the
appropriation of farms. It was way down before that.

It's nice to see how the campaign against tobacco is actually working on a
global scale.

Daniel
Replies: Reply from dcm at pobox.com (David Mason) ([Leica] a new one)
 In reply to: Message from jls at runbox.com (Jeffery Smith) ([Leica] a new one)