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Originally Posted by WallShadow
Coffee and tobacco have been grown in Turkey and around the Mediterranean for a long time--main problem in T2K is transport. Once you can get some tobacco seed, it can be cultivated, but at great cost to the soil quality, from what I understand. Beer and bread production have been linked for, oh, about forever--just skim the yeast barm off the top of the brew in process and you've got leavening for bread.
I caught the oblique reference to "Mudder's Milk"  And remember, Ben Franklin got it right when he said that wine (and by extension, beer) "is a constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy." |
Tobacco can be grown where ever tomatoes can be grown. Of course the quality comes from the conditions (soil, temps, moisture, length of season, harvesting, curing) under which it is managed. Soil quality (probably referring to nutrients?) can be worked around as you probably would not have hundreds of acres of it. A small patch is usually all that would be grown. A tobacco plant yields ~75 grams of tobacco. A carton of cigarettes (200) would require ~ 200 grams according to my research IIRC. On a 1/10 acre plot (66 feet x 66 feet) under normal practice you could have about 1000 plants. Now figure 75% actually produce (don't die off or get eaten by bugs) that's 750 plants, thats about 280 cartons or 56 kg of tobacco (which is also chewed or smoked in pipes.) I think pipe smoking would make a comeback over cigarettes that require paper.
And a few plants would yield enough seed for acres of tobacco. There are something like 10000 seeds/pound. Tobaccor is usually started in 'sterile' plots and transplanted to the fields so actual field counts may be higher than 75%. There's lots of work to raising tobacco from first planting the seed to end product.