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Posted on 08/20/2009 5:30:30 AM PDT by STONEWALLS
"RICHMOND, Va. — Something unusual is cropping up alongside the tomatoes, eggplant and okra in Scott Byars' vegetable garden — the elephantine leaves of 30 tobacco plants.
Driven largely by ever-rising tobacco prices, he's among a growing number of smokers who have turned to their green thumbs to cultivate tobacco plants to blend their own cigarettes, cigars and chew. Byars normally pays $5 for a five-pack of cigars and $3 for a tin of snuff; the seed cost him $9."
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You may want to keep the hounds from helping you water the plants.
Remember the commercials years ago for the Larado home rolling machine? Came with filters, paper and boxes.
As a homebrewer, I predict a renewed interest in that hobby as well. What could be better than fresh beer and no sin taxes?
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