Brooklyn Tobacco Grower Fights High Taxes With Homegrown Crop

New York Times:

The cigarettes Audrey Silk used to smoke -- Parliament Lights -- are made at a factory in Richmond, Va. The cigarettes she smokes these days are made and grown in Brooklyn, at her house.

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Comments

[Ele Cig]

05:13 AM on 03/07/2011

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[parkeremma]

11:09 AM on 02/28/2011

My god, the extremely high excise tax on cigarettes made smokers to grow tobacco in their own gardens, lol! Who knows maybe it's healthier than to buy cigarettes in the shop.But still, you need at least to have some spare time and your own garden to do that )). I found more convenient way to get cheap cigarettes. There are some websites that sell cigarettes delivered from Eastern Europe.A carton of Marlboro costs 3 times less than in US (including delivery expenses). European cigarettes are even better than ours as they are not fire save so they have less chemical additives.Besides there are new regulations applied by the Ministry of Health to make the filter longer so the cigarettes are a bit lighter than ours. I'm totally satisfied with the taste of their Marlboro Menthol and I pay just $21 per carton. It's just impossible to find such alluring price here. It's more than 2 years I order cigarettes online at http://www.smokin4free.com/marlboro-blue-ice.html. Till they keep on delivering cigarettes to US, I won't cultivate tobacco in my own garden ))

[BlackYowe]

04:35 PM on 02/25/2011

Home grown Tobacco is really, really strong. There are few people who could handle smoking it. There are thousands of varieties and it was much stronger in the days when the Europeans first learned to smoke it from the natives.

http://www.ramshornstudio.com/tobacco.htm

[Vivicca Whitsett]

04:13 PM on 02/25/2011

Now this is dedication to your habit.

[BlackYowe]

04:43 PM on 02/25/2011

Yeah like some have killed for Mary Jane tho...

[Max Shaw]

01:13 PM on 02/25/2011

Right on! Fight the powers that be! :)

[Random User]

01:00 PM on 02/25/2011

Wow. I applaud her effort and commitment. It's hard not to admire someone who thumbs her nose at the powers that be like this. But seriously, just quit smoking already.

[WarriorLemming]

06:43 AM on 02/26/2011

Can't.....no, I probably could (if someone locked me away for a year) but I don't want to. I like and enjoy a smoke--is that too hard to understand? I'll be growing my own soon--right outside next to the veggie garden. ;)