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Originally Posted by johndallman
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The other is tobacco. Hitler was a strong anti-smoker, but most men in Nazi Germany smoked quite a lot. If the ASN don't take tobacco with them, and grow it, they may be without it for a long time. |
The tobacco thing could
really suck, too. As someone who grew up in a tobacco state, I remember that was not easy. The plants are really fragile, when they first sprout, and everything wants to eat them.
Just getting them to grow is labor-intensive. The harvest isn't bad, but tobacco rapes the soil almost as badly as cotton.
So, successful tobacco cultivation needed lots of land and cheap labor -- which meant plantations, early on.
(By the time I was a kid, it had gotten somewhat easier. Artificial pesticides and fertilizers meant Mr. Bunch could handle his small allotment without too much help.)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultivation_of_tobacco