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.
Other state legislatures to consider raising the legal minimum age for purchasing tobacco products to. 21 include New Jersey, New York, Texas, Utah, and Washington D.C. See, e.g., Lee Davidson, Lawmakers Seek to Raise Smoking Age to 21, SALT LAKE TRIB., Nov. 26, 2013,