Right now, I don't know if there's going to be a next year.
Tobacco farms dot the countryside.
As the 1998 growing season opens, farmers, tobacco workers and suppliers nervously watch the political horizon. Washington is debating a landmark tobacco-control bill that will change not just a business but the lives and careers of tens of thousands of people touched by it. The mood in the Richmond area is one of trepidation. People with business ties to Philip Morris are preparing for times that are less flush. Oscar Giles, a factory employee and local union officer, is doing his own yard work and maintenance at home instead of hiring someone to do it.