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Despite recent court actions, time may prove America and tobacco to be inseparable. Tobacco was the "money crop" of the (36) in the 1600s and 1700s. It was worth dying for in the Revolutionary War. Tobacco became a legal (37) of exchange in Virginia, Maryland and North Carolina. Because of tobacco, the colonists (38) two things in great supply—land and cheap labor. They killed and drove American Indians from their native soil and (39) mil lions of Africans to toil in America. Tobacco is rooted in two of the greatest (40) of American history. Not to mention the damage that it does to smokers. You see them every day as they stand outside businesses because they can’t live without one of the world’s most (41) drugs. Don’t expect lawmakers to legislate tobacco out of existence. And recent multibillion-dollar verdicts and settlements will not make cigarettes (42) . Our wonderful history and smoking are in separable. More folks now know cigarettes and other tobacco products are a cheap delivery system for powerful drugs that (43) kill their faithful users. (44) . We know smoking kills more than 400,000 Americans a year. Yet, 48 million adults still smoke. Between 1993 and 1997, smoking was up 28 percent among college students, and (45) . 1.2 million Americans under age 18 started smoking daily in 1996 compared with 708,000 in 1988. Movie stars and advertisements romanticize smoking, and what cannot be sold here is shipped over seas. (46) .