Friday, January 27, 2012

Museum opened to show Australia's old tobacco growing industry



(ABC) A museum to the now defunct tobacco growing industry has opened at Mareeba on Queensland's Atherton Tablelands.
It's now illegal to grow tobacco in Australia, after the Government elected to buyout and shut down the declining industry in 2006.
For decades tobacco was the main produce grown on the tablelands, and at its peak was worth $50 million dollars a year. Continued

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