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Since 1954, when the tobacco companies began to promote filter cigarettes in a big way, the average cigarette length has increased by perhaps fifteen per cent, but in the same period the average length of the column of tobacco in the cigarettes has decreased by twelve per cent

"In Southside Virginia, tobacco is it," says Virginia Tech University Distinguished Professor of agricultural economics Wayne Purcell, who has made recommendations to the state on the plight of tobacco producers through his role in the Tobacco Communities Project

It's primarily a vehicle for Sean Connery, who was enjoying a brilliant string of successes after his departure from the James Bond franchise