When I was a little boy, my dad worked at Shell/later DuPont in Axis, AL north of Mobile. We would take 43 to Tuscaloosa for the games. Driving through Axis & Creola, the river is lined with chemical plants and stunk...my dad would say "smell that? It smells like money."im sure it does and it has been in decline for a long time. i used to kayak the gauley river every year and remember walking up from the river at the take out and smelling the meth labs. this would have been in 98 or 99.
So there you go...the smell of meth labs smells like money. LOL.