[RandallFlagg]

Grow your own.

In 2008, I tried growing my own. I also ordered an e-cigarette just in case the plants didn't grow.
The plants grew to almost a foot high when the e-cig arrived on the slow boat from China.
After the first puff from that e-cig, I quit smoking after thirty years, and gave up on growing tobacco.

I still love the scent of burning tobacco, though.
Growing it is the easy part. The leaves must still be processed. Dried, cured and cut.

[xzins]

The tobacco companies dosed their curing recipe with all kinds of chemicals.

The home grower can simply dry and pipe smoke, or they can use some old home methods.