Eliot the Agrarian (Or, Eliot with Tobacco)

Because the two, of course, are connected:

"The essential point is that agriculture ought to be saved and revived because agriculture is the foundation for the good life in society; it is, in fact, the normal life."--Eliot

"To many people nowadays, there is nothing complex about the moral issue of tobacco. They are simply against it. They will sit in their large automobiles, spewing a miasma of toxic gas into the atmosphere, and they will thank you for not smoking a cigarette. They will sit in a smoke-free bar, drinking stingers and other lethal beverages, and wonder how smokers can have so little respect for their bodies. They will complacently stand in the presence of a coal-fired power plant or a nuclear power plant or a bomb factory or a leaking chemical plat, and they will wonder how a tobacco farmer can have so little regard for public health. Well, as always, it matters whose ox is being gored. And tobacco, I am obliged to confess, is my ox." --Berry, "The Problem of Tobacco," Sex, Economy, Freedom & Community