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I was watching the government channel the other day and the Cary Town Council meeting was on (okay I know I was bored!! You don't have to tell me). There was a young lady on there that apparently had land willed from her great grandmother. Something about a grandfather clause has protected the land for a couple of years but apparently no more. Some of it used to be tobacco land, but guess which 'growing' Town Council thinks they can use it better than the property owner? The government has tried killing the industry from one end and the carpetbaggers are trying to kill it by building on all the land around here

CD, I'm with you. I remember the days gone by when you drove through Eastern NC and saw tobacco, not housing developments. As much as I am against internal improvements or government handouts, if the good state of NC can do anything to help protect these companies from the general government, I say keep giving. This state, while somewhat weaned from tobacco, would be dealt a serious blow if attacks on the industry are allowed to continue unabated. I chose to smoke (quit about 1 year) and I choose to dip snuff (have since I was about 9). I know the drawbacks, I know the dangers, but danged if I'm going to sue anyone for my choices. I personally don't think there should be one more tobacco settlement. If you don't know the dangers by now, you're living in a cave. If you so choose to use tobacco products (like myself) quit whining if you get sick. It's no one's fault but our own

and the carpetbaggers are trying to kill it by building on all the land around here

Its called PRIVATE PROPERTY ya yokel. If farmer A wants to sell his land for people to build homes on that is his business. If farmer B wants to maintain it as farm land that is also his business.

And if you think "carpetbaggers" are moving here to buy land and build on it to stop the growing of tobacco you are in need of a very large shipment of tinfoil.

Now, you two guys in the back seat quit fighting! We're almost there.

Seriously, I see you both on the Civil War threads and found this funny:

Wade Hampton, a throat cancer survivor who blames 31 years of two-pack-a-day smoking for his disease, said North Carolina's tobacco settlement has amounted to little more than a publicity stunt and a smoke screen to maintain the status quo.

Wade Hampton, still here after all these years.