The question came up in another blog: Can you grow your own tobacco if you live in Ohio? Someone said no, but I think that is incorrect.
We’re in Growing Zone 6, according to Burpee’s. Here’s a guy who claims great success in Zone 6 and offering you 1000 seeds for $5.99 plus shipping. On eBay, look for HOMEGROWN IRANIAN SHERAZI TOBACCO SEED KIT, 1000+ SEEDS.
Another source for about 400 seeds and growing instructions is eBay Item Number 360144672415 titled TENNESSEE BURLEY TOBACCO SEEDS SEED GROW YOUR OWN.
Still, I don’t think you’d be able to grow a quality product here, or farmers would be doing it. But likely one could squeeze out enough leaves to keep a personal habit satisfied.
If anyone decides to try, I’d be interested in how it goes.
By the way, I haven’t smoked for decades, but I remember the grip that nicotine had and I sympathize with those who suffer from that. If I were still so gripped I would have been growing my own poison even if I had to set up a greenhouse for it. Also, I’d be spending a lot of time, effort and money in a real effort to get loose from the habit.
Showing posts with label smoking. Show all posts
Showing posts with label smoking. Show all posts
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
Thursday, February 1, 2007
The plight of county smokers vs. the plight of those who just breathe county air
As though further proof is needed, yesterday's Advocate page-one report on the plight of smoking county employees proves again that we live in a society gone mad. Let us count the ways ...
... anyone who would deliberately suck into their lungs any quantity of tar, ammonia, carbon monoxide, formaldehyde, and about 4,000 (really!) other ingredients, most or all of them unhealthful, has gone mad.
... anyone who would pay $4.45 for a pack of killer cigarettes (Ohio average) has gone mad, especially when you can roll your own for a lot less.
... anti-smokers who are so artificially touchy about the tiniest waft of cigarette smoke in their presence have gone mad.
... voters who passed the state smoking ban in public places, making them now only partially public, have gone mad.
... smokers who didn't do anything much to preserve their freedoms before that election proved themselves to have gone mad.
... health "gurus" such as as Joe Ebel, county health commissioner, and County Commissioner Doug Smith, who continue to do a war dance over miniscule amounts of second-hand smoke, while continuing to ignore the colossal dump that Fiberglas takes on Licking County 24/7, have gone mad.
... Advocate reporters and managers, who think the plight of a few county employees without a smoking haven and the reaction to this plight by gone-mad health "gurus" - and not Fiberglas pollution - merits a page-one report, have gone mad.
... anyone who would deliberately suck into their lungs any quantity of tar, ammonia, carbon monoxide, formaldehyde, and about 4,000 (really!) other ingredients, most or all of them unhealthful, has gone mad.
... anyone who would pay $4.45 for a pack of killer cigarettes (Ohio average) has gone mad, especially when you can roll your own for a lot less.
... anti-smokers who are so artificially touchy about the tiniest waft of cigarette smoke in their presence have gone mad.
... voters who passed the state smoking ban in public places, making them now only partially public, have gone mad.
... smokers who didn't do anything much to preserve their freedoms before that election proved themselves to have gone mad.
... health "gurus" such as as Joe Ebel, county health commissioner, and County Commissioner Doug Smith, who continue to do a war dance over miniscule amounts of second-hand smoke, while continuing to ignore the colossal dump that Fiberglas takes on Licking County 24/7, have gone mad.
... Advocate reporters and managers, who think the plight of a few county employees without a smoking haven and the reaction to this plight by gone-mad health "gurus" - and not Fiberglas pollution - merits a page-one report, have gone mad.
Sunday, January 21, 2007
Smoking over not smoking
Ironic that the veterans who fought for freedom are not free to smoke in their own digs, even though VFW halls are members-only. They have employees in the halls, see, and that outlaws smokers. Oh well, there goes another veterans’ freedom. Trouble with these guys is they should have kept on fighting for freedom, especially when this idiotic smoking ban was proposed. If they didn’t get off their butts then, they deserve what’s happening now.
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