Actually, I wonder how much of the tobacco crop was for domestic consumption anyway -- it looks like 40 million pounds was going to the UK per year; that implie

Actually, I wonder how much of the tobacco crop was for domestic consumption anyway -- it looks like 40 million pounds was going to the UK per year; that implies that a good portion of the 225 million pounds the South produced wasn't being withheld from the North. So I'm guessing the North had plenty of tobacco for domestic consumption.