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Tobacco profits depended on skilled, careful, and efficient enslaved workers

If seedlings are planted in pots or beds where previously infected plants grew, they can become infected

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With the profitability of the land rapidly increasing, it was no longer economically viable to bring in indentured servants with the promise of land benefits at the end of their tenure

Theres also evidence that people who smoke while getting cancer treatment have a worse outcome (prognosis), are less likely to respond to treatment and are more likely to have the cancer come back (recur)

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