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Tobacco Blues

Families who have been growing tobacco for generations face the consequences of a national controversy fuming in their own backyards.

Series

POV

Premiere Date

June 9, 1998

Length

60 minutes

Funding Type

Co-Production

Can a good person grow tobacco? As the cigarette war rages, small American tobacco farmers have been the often overlooked casualties. Filmmaking duo Eren McGinnis and Christine Fugate travel across Kentucky to meet the families who have been growing this crop for generations, as they face the consequences of this controversy fuming in their own backyards.

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