Tobacco barns were packed solid with the golden leaf this past season. Even with stop smoking tip - farmers in the United States raised more than 350,000 acres. The crop, which many predicted would be extinguished along with cigarettes, has defied expectations. Tobacco is what you might call “smoking hot.” Rod Keugel, a fourth-generation Kentucky grower, says this is the most profitable time in his entire life to be a tobacco farmer.