antique tobacco press 1800's Wooden Rolling Primitive Cotton Gin / Leaf Roller, VA SOLD at Ruby Lane George Glazer Gallery - Antique

These barns are designed for the areas specific temperature and humidity with most drying occurring before the rainy season when the humidity is higher

Thomas Jefferson once noted that "...great care is necessary as it [the tobacco] is very flammable, and it takes fire, the whole, with the house [tobacco barn], consumes as quickly as straw would." The trick to curing in a tobacco barn was to produce a tobacco leaf neither too dry nor too moist

Minimized Sensitivity: Dentists are trained to minimize sensitivity during and after whitening treatments

Smoking became more common for women only later so that lung cancer death rates for women peaked later