[FerociousRabbit]

I’ve tried and tried and tried. Whatever the tobacco companies do is far beyond what the farmer does. Any time I try to smoke my own tobacco it makes me want to quit smoking... harsh is an understatement. I live in the middle of Kentucky tobacco country and I have never met a tobacco farmer that rolls his own (tobacco, anyway)!

[JRandomFreeper]

It takes curing. The stuff I grew this year will get smoked in 2013 or 2014.

/johnny

[jjotto]

It needs curing and fermenting, best accomplished in larger quantities than a home gardener would mess with.

[count-your-change]

Commercial tobacco sold in the U.S. is made up of several varieties and has any number of additives to flavor, control the burn rate, etc., in other words an engineered product.