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Grow your own. That way it wont have all the radioactive pesticides on them too! Will work out cheaper!

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No license needed. All you need is the seeds. It will grow anywhere Tomato’s grow. The Indians in Arizona raised wild tobacco long before the white man settled the land. .

There are hundreds of different types of tobacco. Pick the type you want to use and grow it. Burly types are the most common for all around use.

Google Nicotinia Tobaccum. You will get more information than you can read.

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Vegans are generally health freaks and so would not smoke. There’s probably all kind of chemicals in tobacco that aren’t vegan so I guess the best bet for a vegan if they want to smoke would be to buy the tobacco and roll the cigarettes themselves. Or they could grow their own tobacco. But you would think a vegan would have enough common sense not to smoke. I’m VEGETARIAN and I don’t smoke, and never have. It’s a bad habit that damages your lungs and eats up your cash and causes cancer and other diseases.

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Anyone in the country can grow tobacco without any government license or permission.

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These sites will tell you how to grow it:

http://www.newhopeseed.com/tobacco_growing.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultivation_of_tobacco

And this one will tell you everything you need to know from seed to chew:

http://www.howtogrowtobacco.com/forum/index.php

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You may be undertaking a little more then you may want to.
I mean the tobacco in gas stations may be crap but it has been honed over years and years to be as crappy as it is today. The curing process alone is mind-boggling. Fun! But mind-boggling. Your tobacco may not taste good the first few plants. Especially if you have never grown a plant before. As for it being better, as i said tobacco companies took years to make their stuff and your just starting. They do all types of soil testing and ph testing. So it would be hard to say. As for the nicotine, cigarettes contain 10% nicotine. Tobacco naturally grows with any where from .05% to 3% Nicotine, depending on the strain. The other is added by the company along with other chemicals. So your first cigar probably wont taste good, smell good, and will have less nicotine. Overtime you should be able to make something more palatable but thats the fun of growing your own.

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Check out this website…good luck!

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I grow tobacco at my house. It’s completely legal to grow it but not to sell it. You can however sell whole leaf tobacco so long as the midrib is not removed. Surprisingly there is a market for such a thing. Roll your own tobacco users often seek out whole leaf tobacco as do some pipe smokers. It is unfortunate that there are few people who make their own cigars these days.

The good old USDA will even supply you with free seeds if you are willing to jump through a few hoops. It takes quite some time for tobacco seeds to grow large enough to plant outdoors so you had best get started right away.

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You have been greatly misinformed. All tobacco contains nicotine. The tobacco plant produces the nicotine itself. Many tobacco blends on the market that are made for rolling contain many different additives. I grow strait pure tobacco and I can tell you it is not nearly as pleasant as the stuff the tobacco companies put out. Many of the additives the tobacco companies use are flavorings to make it more pleasant to smoke.

Please do some real research on this matter before you end up fooling yourself.

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It is currently legal in all 50 states to grow your own tobacco. The USDA even sent me free tobacco seeds last year, (you have to request them). It’s actually legal to sell tobacco, (whole leaf only without the midrib removed). Any processing will require you to get a permit before you can sell it.

The USDA provides seeds for both research and education. Tobacco seeds are not the only seeds they provide. You do not have to be a teacher, a company, nor a scientist. You do have to provide your results once your project is finished. In my case I am attempting to cross one variety with another in order to produce a hybrid of the Rustica strain that will grow larger and produce less nicotine.

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If only I knew in what state you live. Different types of tobacco are raised in different locations. Flue cured, and fire cured in the eastern coastal regions. Maryland well in Maryland and surrounding areas. Burley is for the most part a highland tobacco, raised in the Appalachia Mountains and the area west into Kentucky and Tennessee. The difference is basically how each are worked and processed. If you want tobacco for a flower garden, the hardest part of raising it might well be finding plants to set out. If you want it for your personal use, be aware that the tobacco you buy in stores has been aged (sometimes for years) to mellow the taste and bitterness before processing into consumer products.

It doesn’t appear that I have answered your question, but maybe this gave you some information that is helpful.

Virginia tobacco will most likely be burley or flue cured. Either way the seed are very small. The best way to start plants is in a float bed. You will need a styrofoam tray that is divided into sections ( usually 100 0r more to each tray) . Fill the tray with potting soil, gently pack each section to firm the soil. Place one seed to each section. Do not try to cover the seed. We use a machine to seed the trays. Place the seeded tray in water and cover with plastic sheeting raised above the tray. In a manner like a small greenhouse. The seed should sprout in about two weeks, and be ready to transplant in about six to eight weeks. Plants should be transplanted when they are about 1/3 meter tall. Transplant 1/2 meter apart in rows 1 meter wide. Cow manure makes a great fertilizer for tobacco. It’s best to plant in the evening to avoid wilting. Add a small amount of water when planting. When plants bloom break out the tops, usually about shoulder high. Weekly after topping you will need to remove sprouts (suckers) that will grow above every leaf. Allow tobacco to grow for six to eight weeks after topping. How you harvest the crop will depend on how you plan to cure your tobacco. Flue cured requires barns specially designed for that purpose. With flue cured you pick off the leaves. Burley is harvested by cutting the stalk, then “speared” onto a stick before being hung in a barn or on a scaffold outside. Each leaf is graded by leaf texture and color after curing.
Hope this helped.

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It’s probably not as easy as you might think, but it is possible and it is legal. It is not legal to raise it to sell, unless you have a special license to do so from the government. But for your own personal use, it is permissable and there are many web sites with helpful information. That said, I wish you would quit smoking. It is really a deadly habit.

However, if you want to investigate it further, here is an excellent web site from a reputable source (the University of Florida) that goes through the ins and outs of it.

Http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/aa260

Here is another site that has some great information and also excellent links to other related topics:
http://www.growtobacco.net/is-growing-tobacco-illegal

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If I smoked, I would probably grow my own. Not hard to do. I like to garden, so its not that big of a deal to grow a plant. About as hard as growing green beans. You can even grow it in a very large pot or a 5 gallon bucket on a fire escape.

Obama will probably send out the excise tax people to catch the small guy thogh.

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Interactive site that should handle any question.

Http://www.howtogrowtobacco.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=374

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It is legal in all fifty states to grow your own tobacco. It’s even legal to sell whole leaves so long as the mid rib is not removed. It can not be processed in any way or you will have to get a license to sell it. Some states may have limits on how much you can grow so check before planting a whole field of it.

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I grow my own tobacco in Arkansas and no one has bothered me. Not yet, anyway. Tobacco has other legitimate uses besides human consumption. It is a beautiful plant, attracts hornworm moths away from your tomatoes, and can be used to make an organic insecticide. It grows fairly well in pots and can even be used as a houseplant.

North Carolina Tobacco Law

Purchase by persons under the age of 18 years:

* It is illegal for anyone under age 18 to buy, to attempt to buy, to receive or to use a false or misleading proof of age for the purpose of purchasing or receiving any tobacco product or cigarette wrapping papers.
* Persons under age 18 engaging in such activities are guilty of a Class 2 misdemeanor, which is a criminal offense punishable by up to 30 days of community service and up to a $1000 fine.

I don’t see anything here preventing you from growing your own. It does not say that possession is a crime either. “Receiving” means getting it from someone else, however. If you get it from a plant, is that “receiving?” I would say “No,” but a judge might say otherwise. Also, you cannot buy rolling papers. I don’t think that you would stop a cop from writing you a citation by saying, “It’s legal because I grew it myself.”

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I know that commercial tobacco uses bug spray and other adulterants.

If you have the patience and know-how to grow your own, why not?

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I bought my seeds from New Hope Seed Company. I think they have the best prices and selection, but visit their website and decide for yourself. I don’t think there are any age restrictions for buying seeds. Some people simply grow tobacco for the beauty of the plants. New Hope charges $1.99 for 100 seeds, although you get much more than 100, nobody actually counts them.

My plants are only about 2 inches tall right now and will be ready to go in the ground in about 3 weeks. You will love growing your own tobacco and reviving that family tradition.

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NO,it isn’t!
Don’t be ridiculous.

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It isn’t found naturally, and it isn’t added by tobacco companies. Burning the tobacco creates OH free radicals by homolytically breaking C-O bonds in the sugars and sugar polymers (cellulose, for example) that give the leaves their structure. Two OH radicals can combine to form hydrogen peroxide, but the real damage is caused by the OH radicals themselves – the danger of peroxide is that the O-O bond is easily cleaved to form two OH radicals which can do a lot of oxidative damage.

Growing your own baccy won’t change a thing. If you’re a cigarette smoker you might want to start rolling your own, though. Tobacco companies do add nitrates and nitrites to tobacco and to cigarette paper so that the cigarette burns evenly (and of course burns away without going out if you set it down, so you’ll have to light another one.) These are also carcinogens, which you won’t find in rolling tobacco or in retail cigarette papers.

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