[steve50]

Hmmm, they let you buy dried leaf tax free, so we are paying $22 a carton or so for Phillip Morris to roll it? Is the place you buy your leaf a retail outlet or just an individual?

[SheLion]

Bags and cans of tobacco can be bought at the Smoke Shops or even the grocery stores in town. The filtered tubes are sold same place. They have to charge a surcharge, but not the huge taxes that you pay when you buy PM or RJR or the rest of them. A carton of premiums up here are $50.00. When they hit $44 last year, I said that's it. No more. They have since gone up since last June. That is why I am so thankful that we working class stiffs finally found a better way to enjoy our cigarettes, without sacrificing something else.

[Just another Joe]

I beleive, but am not sure, that you can grow up to 1/4 of an acre of tobacco for personal use without govt intervention.
On the subject of stuff your own, Don't forget the taxes on the packs. It's not JUST PM that you are paying for the privelage of them stuffing your cigarettes for you.
I also stuff my own. There are two brands that I like. One of them is fairly pricey, $3.55 a pouch (Makes between a pack and a half and two packs), the other is not as expensive but I don't like it quite as much.
I can afford a buck eighty a pack so I go with the pricey stuff.