tobacco road play on Broadway in 1933 from novel by Erskine Caldwell with Henry Hull as Jeeter Lester, Margaret Wycherly as Ada Stock Photo of father Jeeter who dreams of planting a garden beside his ramshackle home Vintage 1940s Playbill Tobacco Road

Note: Even North Carolina, which grows even more tobacco than Virginia, now has smoke-free restaurants and bars - like 64 percent of the U.S

'Back then, I knew smoking wasn't the greatest thing to do whilst pregnant but there weren't any strict rules and I never had a doctor or a midwife tell me to stop smoking,' she explained

Some were employed directly by companies such as the British American Tobacco Co and China Nanyang Brother Tobacco Co, others set up their own studios

"We were surprised to see how strong air pollution's impact was on the progression of emphysema on lung scans, in the same league as the effects of cigarette smoking, which is by far the best-known cause of emphysema," says Kaufman