TOBACCO : NEW MARKETS, OLD TRADITIONS: 15_0_345_1web_rh21

US Tobacco graders Jimmy Allen (third from left) and Scott Harrington, discuss a tobacco grade with warehouse manager Elton Johnson at the Big L Warehouse in Mullins, South Carolina July 29, 2013. The farm cooperative US Tobacco sets the standard for pricing and quality of the area farmer's crops at this warehouse. The traditional tobacco harvest requires many labor intensive hours to bring the crop to market, especially with the flue-cured variety prominent in the southern United States. With the growing health concerns with smoking in the US, most farmers use market cooperatives to sell their crop to the growing markets in China. Picture taken on July 29, 2013. REUTERS/Randall Hill (UNITED STATES)

US Tobacco graders Jimmy Allen (third from left) and Scott Harrington, discuss a tobacco grade with warehouse manager Elton Johnson at the Big L Warehouse in Mullins, South Carolina July 29, 2013. The farm cooperative US Tobacco sets the standard for pricing and quality of the area farmer's crops at this warehouse. The traditional tobacco harvest requires many labor intensive hours to bring the crop to market, especially with the flue-cured variety prominent in the southern United States. With the growing health concerns with smoking in the US, most farmers use market cooperatives to sell their crop to the growing markets in China. Picture taken on July 29, 2013. REUTERS/Randall Hill (UNITED STATES)