Here's a link to just one twisted concoction written by yet another misinformed "journalist" placing the blame on "Big Tobacco"
http://rense.com/health/tobac.htm
I learned the truth about this the other day while in North Carolina. Although I'm armed with the truth, I'm having a tough time finding the actual directive.
President Jimmy Carter through the USDA instructed the University of North Carolina to develop a tobacco strain with lower tar. The unintended result was an astronomic spike in nicotine production. This variety became known as Y-1. It was never intended to be put into production, but some of the seeds where smuggled into Brazil where it was grown commercially.
The offending parties (smugglers) where both prosecuted and imprisoned for a short time.
As Paul Harvey would say...and now you know the rest of the story.
http://rense.com/health/tobac.htm
I learned the truth about this the other day while in North Carolina. Although I'm armed with the truth, I'm having a tough time finding the actual directive.
President Jimmy Carter through the USDA instructed the University of North Carolina to develop a tobacco strain with lower tar. The unintended result was an astronomic spike in nicotine production. This variety became known as Y-1. It was never intended to be put into production, but some of the seeds where smuggled into Brazil where it was grown commercially.
The offending parties (smugglers) where both prosecuted and imprisoned for a short time.
As Paul Harvey would say...and now you know the rest of the story.
When you grow and roll your own you can adjust nicotene to your own needs simply by position of the leaf on the plant to smoke. Does that make sense? It seems to work for me. When it gets to technical into strains i'm a complete novice. The powers of observation from experience work best for me.