The Kindle Colorsoft has converted me. And it only took Amazon adding colour, comfort and complete convenience to do it. I gave up on e-readers in 2014, when I tried to read Amy Poehler’s Yes Please ...

For tobacco growers on Virginia’s Old Belt, as for the nation’s No. 1 cigarette-maker, Henrico County-based Altria Group, the future looks like one with an ever-shrinking number of American smokers.