[analog31]

Indeed, I live in Wisconsin, and we were a tobacco growing state at one time. You still see old tobacco drying barns here and there. The folklore is that we grew the cheap stuff that was mixed with the nice stuff from further south, but during war time, it might have been a different set of priorities.

[saalweachter]

Actually, I wonder how much of the tobacco crop was for domestic consumption anyway -- it looks like 40 million pounds was going to the UK per year; that implies that a good portion of the 225 million pounds the South produced wasn't being withheld from the North.

So I'm guessing the North had plenty of tobacco for domestic consumption.