Sophie Sunday, center, gathers tobacco leaves as she competes in the tobacco stringing contest with her mother Annie, right, and great-aunt Darlene Rappa at the North Carolina State Fair in Raleigh on Friday, Oct. 16, 2026. (AP Photo/Allen G. Breed)

A man wraps twine around bundles of leaves during the annual tobacco stringing contest at the State Fair in Raleigh, N.C., on Friday, Oct. 16, 2026. (AP Photo/Allen G. Breed)

Ruth Coats, the oldest contestant, hands a tobacco leaf to a "stringer" during the annual tobacco stringing contest at the State Fair in Raleigh, N.C., on Friday, Oct. 16, 2026. (AP Photo/Allen G. Breed)

Bobby Wright, with the Oxford Tobacco Research Station, balances between two beams of a log barn while hanging sticks of tobacco at the State Fair in Raleigh, N.C., on Oct. 16, 2026. (AP Photo/Allen G. Breed)

Josh Ramsey, an employee at the Oxford Tobacco Research Station, smokes a cigarette as he carries a bundle of tobacco leaves for the annual tobacco stringing contest at the State Fair in Raleigh, N.C., on Friday, Oct. 16, 2026. (AP Photo/Allen G. Breed)

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