Source: NORTH CAROLINA HEALTH NEWS, 9/25/20


In many ways, not much has changed since Kay Boykin was growing up on her family’s tobacco farm in rural Greene County in the 1960s. The family rarely saw the one doctor who practiced in the county, Boykin, now 67, recalled. Boykin and her five siblings helped out on the farm, tending to the oval leaves that would eventually become cigars, cigarettes and chewing tobacco with their bare hands.

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