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                                       Respond to this statement:

                                      " Tobacco was the cash crop that saved the Virginia 

                                       Colony, but the long-term costs to the nation--and the

                                       world--were greater than any good brought by the crop."

Before you begin writing, please refer to web sites such as the following:

http://wolfweb.unr.edu/homepage/shubinsk/smokost1.html

http://spotlight.siu.edu/06222005/Tobaccoresearch.html