The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Rebecca Skloot) Henrietta Lacks was a poor black tobacco farmer whose cells — taken without her knowledge in 1951 — became one of the most important tools in medicine. (modernlovelongdistance.com)
As a result, there were simply too many tobacco farmers with quotas to fill and not enough buyers. (canadianbusiness.com)
Armed with a $ 1.1 - billion settlement from Imperial Tobacco and Rothman's Benson & Hedges, the feds killed the quota system and announced a $ 300 - million program to transition tobacco farmers into other crops. (canadianbusiness.com)