The changing face of the once-dominant tobacco industry

(GoDanRiver) Robert W. Carter Jr. remembers going into Reidsville to shop during the 1940s, ’50s and ’60s, and being greeted by tobacco.
“You could smell that aroma,” Carter says. The city was home to American Tobacco Co., at one time one of the largest tobacco companies in the world and maker of the Lucky Strike cigarette, at one time the No. 1-selling brand. Continued

Photo: Tobacco auction in warehouse in Danville, Virginia where many Caswell County farmers sell their tobacco at auction, 1940. (Marion Post Wolcott/FSA/Library of Congress)