Tobacco

 NY Times: The Searing Beauty, and Harsh Reality, of a Kentucky Tobacco Harvest - At a family farm in Shelby County, a group of 26 men from Nicaragua and Mexico perform the grueling seasonal work that Americans largely avoid. Photographs and Text by Luke Sharrett

In 1965, 42 percent of Americans smoked cigarettes. By 2018, that number had fallen to 14 percent. Still, cigarette smoking remains the leading cause of preventable disease, disability and death, according to the C.D.C.