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North Carolina is one of seven states that still allow 18-year-olds to buy tobacco.

A conversation with Dr. Blake Brown, Professor Emeritus of Agricultural and Resource Economics at North Carolina State University, about the role of tobacco farming in North Carolina’s economy and the federal policies of the past century that impacted how the crop is grown in our state.

Yesenia Cuello of NC FIELD talks to Due South about her own experiences working in tobacco fields as a child, and how the practice persists today.

When Doris Duke, a fabulously wealthy tobacco and power company heiress, ran over and killed a longtime employee and confidant at her Newport, Rhode Island, mansion in 1966, police took her at her word that it was an accident.

Juul will pay the $40 million to the state during the next six years. It will go to preventive programs an programs to help people quit e-cigarettes.

Summers were spent at his father’s gas station. Charles Townsend met all sorts of folks while manning the ice house. In the muggy lowlands of Robeson…

Summers were spent at his father’s gas station. Charles Townsend met all sorts of folks while manning the ice house. In the muggy lowlands of Robeson…

North Carolina tobacco farmers say Hurricane Dorian destroyed at least 20 to 25 percent of their total harvest, hurting the state's overall tobacco…

North Carolina farmers are among those warily watching a new trade dispute between the United States and allies in North America and Europe. President…

In the late 1980s and early 90s, North Carolina photographer David Spear spent several years documenting the lives of his neighbors, the Neugents.The…