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.
The leading tobacco producing states in the U.S. include North Carolina, Kentucky and Georgia. North Carolina lies in the Virginia-Carolina tobacco belt and topped the list in 2014 with a tobacco production over 453 million pounds. In the United States, the legal smoking age varies by state and starts around 18 years.eading tobacco producing U.S. states in 2013 and 2014 (in 1,000 pounds). This statistic shows the leading U.S. states based on tobacco production in 2013 and 2014. In Kentucky, some 214.3 million pounds of tobacco were produced in 2014.