There has been a tremendous move to control tobacco products for health reasons over the course of the last two decades, not only in the U.S. but across the world. Mark Kehaya, chief executive officer of Alliance One International, a leading independent leaf tobacco merchant, spoke to growers on the tobacco control movement at the Tobacco Growers Association of North Carolina, during the group's Annual Meeting at the Southern Farm Show, Feb. 1 in Raleigh.
