About 49% of millennials think the nation's best years are ahead, the survey found. That's a higher percentage than among baby boomers (44%) and generation X (42%), the generation between boomers and millennials.
1 Farms in the United States produced nearly 800 million pounds of tobacco in 2012. 2  In 2012, tobacco was grown in 19 U.S. states, with North Carolina, Kentucky, and Georgia accounting for nearly 80% of production.n 2012, tobacco companies spent $9.6 billion marketing cigarettes and smokeless tobacco in the United States alone. This amount translates to about $26 million each day, or more than $1 million every hour. 1.
Forty-one states and Washington, D.C., have laws that restrict minors' access to tobacco through vending machines, an increase of 10 states (i.e., California, Delaware, Illinois, Kansas, Louisiana, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Rhode Island, Texas, and Virginia) since the 1995 report (Table 8).