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Tobacco farmers face collapse as smoke bans spread
Six years after a lung cancer scare I quit smoking and doctors, yet rural Ontario tobacco growers face a crisis as anti smoking campaigns tighten rules and quotas fall. Farmers describe tax escapes, bank betrayals, and looming evictions as quota values crash and farm property prices plummet. The region’s average farmer, aged 45 to 60 with heavy dependence on tobacco, bears the brunt.
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