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On 2/5/14, 11:29 AM, Poco Loco wrote:
On Wed, 05 Feb 2014 11:00:38 -0500, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: They should do a study on how many of this country's 'poor' smoke cigarettes compared to the 'unpoor', whoever that is. There's probably an excuse somewhere. Lack of money, according to some, causes obesity because poor people 'can't afford to eat decently'. I suppose one would say that lack of money causes people to spend $10 a pack for cigarettes because they can't afford psychiatrists to help control their anxiety. A tad judgmental, eh? -- There’s no point crying over spilled 4-Methylcyclohexanemethanol. |
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On 2/5/2014 8:55 PM, wrote:
On Wed, 05 Feb 2014 13:24:45 -0500, KC wrote: On 2/5/2014 1:16 PM, wrote: On Wed, 05 Feb 2014 11:25:10 -0500, KC wrote: We are ordering a kit with 250 seeds, seems if we set a place in the yard aside we could probably grow enough on ten plants to keep her going all year... Haven't had a garden in a long time since the deer and raccoons killed our last one a day before harvest. Seems they might not be so interested in eating Tobacco so we'll see. Maybe I will have a report in the fall... I am waiting to see how that works for you. My ex's family all had a tobacco quota (Anne Arundle County) and grew whatever they were allowed to sell but it was very labor intensive according to them., The raccoons won't eat your tobacco but there are plenty of bugs and worms that will. You have to manually deal with that because you don't want to smoke poison. There is also a drying process that impacts how good your smoke is. I am not sure if any of those people are still alive but it would be an interesting conversation if I could hook you up. After a while my eyes glazed over but I am not a farmer. Yeah, it looks like the hardest part might be the bugs and the rotting (curing) of the finished product. Then you have to process the leaves and grind them... There are lots of tricks out there but the cut is very important to the roll and burn. That is a big part of the trick. You need to air dry this without it rotting or growing mold on it. There are big barns (not red) all over southern Maryland that are only there to dry tobacco, The trick is you spear it and hang it upside down in a well ventilated but very dry place. Yeah, I am familiar with the process, my whole town was nothing but tobacco when I was a kid worked it at age 14... Gotta dry it slow and warm in the beginning, got to make it rot out the sugars and harsh oils... Really rotting it to an extent, or letting it get close. That's why those red barns have the slats on the side so they can control the humidity during the cure. If you dry it too fast, it will taste harsh.... etc... |
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On Wed, 05 Feb 2014 20:51:35 -0500, wrote: On Wed, 05 Feb 2014 13:11:49 -0500, Poco Loco wrote: I hope your fall report says a doctor turned her on to Zyban and Nicorettes and she doesn't smoke any more - anything! Nicotine gun is a scourge itself. I know plenty of people hooked on the gum. My wife goes through about one of these every few months. http://www.discountgum.com/Products/...-36-packs.aspx It took me about a year to get off the gum. I gradually started chewing another. But I'm now addicted to chewing something. The Orbit orange stuff was most like the Nicorettes. And a hell of a lot cheaper. Still enough smokers out there. I bought $60k of Phillip Morris in about 2002. Paid 5.4% dividend then. Dividend is now about 4.5% depending on the division. But the stock has tripled in value. Not a bad investment. Oand if the government could stop smoking, the price would drop on the stock. |
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On Wed, 05 Feb 2014 21:41:52 -0600, Califbill wrote:
Poco Loco wrote: On Wed, 05 Feb 2014 20:51:35 -0500, wrote: On Wed, 05 Feb 2014 13:11:49 -0500, Poco Loco wrote: I hope your fall report says a doctor turned her on to Zyban and Nicorettes and she doesn't smoke any more - anything! Nicotine gun is a scourge itself. I know plenty of people hooked on the gum. My wife goes through about one of these every few months. http://www.discountgum.com/Products/...-36-packs.aspx It took me about a year to get off the gum. I gradually started chewing another. But I'm now addicted to chewing something. The Orbit orange stuff was most like the Nicorettes. And a hell of a lot cheaper. Still enough smokers out there. I bought $60k of Phillip Morris in about 2002. Paid 5.4% dividend then. Dividend is now about 4.5% depending on the division. But the stock has tripled in value. Not a bad investment. Oand if the government could stop smoking, the price would drop on the stock. Smoking is very popular overseas. I think that's where the cigarette guys are making the big bucks. In Germany, Marlboro was king. |
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On 2/6/2014 8:41 AM, Poco Loco wrote:
On Wed, 05 Feb 2014 21:41:52 -0600, Califbill wrote: Poco Loco wrote: On Wed, 05 Feb 2014 20:51:35 -0500, wrote: On Wed, 05 Feb 2014 13:11:49 -0500, Poco Loco wrote: I hope your fall report says a doctor turned her on to Zyban and Nicorettes and she doesn't smoke any more - anything! Nicotine gun is a scourge itself. I know plenty of people hooked on the gum. My wife goes through about one of these every few months. http://www.discountgum.com/Products/...-36-packs.aspx It took me about a year to get off the gum. I gradually started chewing another. But I'm now addicted to chewing something. The Orbit orange stuff was most like the Nicorettes. And a hell of a lot cheaper. Still enough smokers out there. I bought $60k of Phillip Morris in about 2002. Paid 5.4% dividend then. Dividend is now about 4.5% depending on the division. But the stock has tripled in value. Not a bad investment. Oand if the government could stop smoking, the price would drop on the stock. Smoking is very popular overseas. I think that's where the cigarette guys are making the big bucks. In Germany, Marlboro was king. And China. |
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On 2/6/14, 1:19 PM, Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 2/6/2014 8:41 AM, Poco Loco wrote: On Wed, 05 Feb 2014 21:41:52 -0600, Califbill wrote: Poco Loco wrote: On Wed, 05 Feb 2014 20:51:35 -0500, wrote: On Wed, 05 Feb 2014 13:11:49 -0500, Poco Loco wrote: I hope your fall report says a doctor turned her on to Zyban and Nicorettes and she doesn't smoke any more - anything! Nicotine gun is a scourge itself. I know plenty of people hooked on the gum. My wife goes through about one of these every few months. http://www.discountgum.com/Products/...-36-packs.aspx It took me about a year to get off the gum. I gradually started chewing another. But I'm now addicted to chewing something. The Orbit orange stuff was most like the Nicorettes. And a hell of a lot cheaper. Still enough smokers out there. I bought $60k of Phillip Morris in about 2002. Paid 5.4% dividend then. Dividend is now about 4.5% depending on the division. But the stock has tripled in value. Not a bad investment. Oand if the government could stop smoking, the price would drop on the stock. Smoking is very popular overseas. I think that's where the cigarette guys are making the big bucks. In Germany, Marlboro was king. And China. There have been many news articles pointing out that American tobacco corporations are concentrating their marketing activities on young people in third world countries. |
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On 2/6/2014 1:23 PM, F.O.A.D. wrote:
On 2/6/14, 1:19 PM, Mr. Luddite wrote: On 2/6/2014 8:41 AM, Poco Loco wrote: On Wed, 05 Feb 2014 21:41:52 -0600, Califbill wrote: Poco Loco wrote: On Wed, 05 Feb 2014 20:51:35 -0500, wrote: On Wed, 05 Feb 2014 13:11:49 -0500, Poco Loco wrote: I hope your fall report says a doctor turned her on to Zyban and Nicorettes and she doesn't smoke any more - anything! Nicotine gun is a scourge itself. I know plenty of people hooked on the gum. My wife goes through about one of these every few months. http://www.discountgum.com/Products/...-36-packs.aspx It took me about a year to get off the gum. I gradually started chewing another. But I'm now addicted to chewing something. The Orbit orange stuff was most like the Nicorettes. And a hell of a lot cheaper. Still enough smokers out there. I bought $60k of Phillip Morris in about 2002. Paid 5.4% dividend then. Dividend is now about 4.5% depending on the division. But the stock has tripled in value. Not a bad investment. Oand if the government could stop smoking, the price would drop on the stock. Smoking is very popular overseas. I think that's where the cigarette guys are making the big bucks. In Germany, Marlboro was king. And China. There have been many news articles pointing out that American tobacco corporations are concentrating their marketing activities on young people in third world countries. Maybe now. When I visited the PRC in 1986 our host recommended bringing as many cartons of Marlboros as we could. We passed them out to the Chinese attendees at the various meetings we attended. It was like handing out gold bars with all the bowing, smiling and hand-shaking. |
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On Thu, 06 Feb 2014 13:23:33 -0500, "F.O.A.D." wrote:
On 2/6/14, 1:19 PM, Mr. Luddite wrote: On 2/6/2014 8:41 AM, Poco Loco wrote: On Wed, 05 Feb 2014 21:41:52 -0600, Califbill wrote: Poco Loco wrote: On Wed, 05 Feb 2014 20:51:35 -0500, wrote: On Wed, 05 Feb 2014 13:11:49 -0500, Poco Loco wrote: I hope your fall report says a doctor turned her on to Zyban and Nicorettes and she doesn't smoke any more - anything! Nicotine gun is a scourge itself. I know plenty of people hooked on the gum. My wife goes through about one of these every few months. http://www.discountgum.com/Products/...-36-packs.aspx It took me about a year to get off the gum. I gradually started chewing another. But I'm now addicted to chewing something. The Orbit orange stuff was most like the Nicorettes. And a hell of a lot cheaper. Still enough smokers out there. I bought $60k of Phillip Morris in about 2002. Paid 5.4% dividend then. Dividend is now about 4.5% depending on the division. But the stock has tripled in value. Not a bad investment. Oand if the government could stop smoking, the price would drop on the stock. Smoking is very popular overseas. I think that's where the cigarette guys are making the big bucks. In Germany, Marlboro was king. And China. There have been many news articles pointing out that American tobacco corporations are concentrating their marketing activities on young people in third world countries. It's hard competing with the AK-47 dealers. |
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"Mr. Luddite" wrote:
On 2/6/2014 8:41 AM, Poco Loco wrote: On Wed, 05 Feb 2014 21:41:52 -0600, Califbill wrote: Poco Loco wrote: On Wed, 05 Feb 2014 20:51:35 -0500, wrote: On Wed, 05 Feb 2014 13:11:49 -0500, Poco Loco wrote: I hope your fall report says a doctor turned her on to Zyban and Nicorettes and she doesn't smoke any more - anything! Nicotine gun is a scourge itself. I know plenty of people hooked on the gum. My wife goes through about one of these every few months. http://www.discountgum.com/Products/...-36-packs.aspx It took me about a year to get off the gum. I gradually started chewing another. But I'm now addicted to chewing something. The Orbit orange stuff was most like the Nicorettes. And a hell of a lot cheaper. Still enough smokers out there. I bought $60k of Phillip Morris in about 2002. Paid 5.4% dividend then. Dividend is now about 4.5% depending on the division. But the stock has tripled in value. Not a bad investment. Oand if the government could stop smoking, the price would drop on the stock. Smoking is very popular overseas. I think that's where the cigarette guys are making the big bucks. In Germany, Marlboro was king. And China. And Korea. |
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On Thu, 06 Feb 2014 14:58:26 -0600, Califbill wrote:
"Mr. Luddite" wrote: On 2/6/2014 8:41 AM, Poco Loco wrote: On Wed, 05 Feb 2014 21:41:52 -0600, Califbill wrote: Poco Loco wrote: On Wed, 05 Feb 2014 20:51:35 -0500, wrote: On Wed, 05 Feb 2014 13:11:49 -0500, Poco Loco wrote: I hope your fall report says a doctor turned her on to Zyban and Nicorettes and she doesn't smoke any more - anything! Nicotine gun is a scourge itself. I know plenty of people hooked on the gum. My wife goes through about one of these every few months. http://www.discountgum.com/Products/...-36-packs.aspx It took me about a year to get off the gum. I gradually started chewing another. But I'm now addicted to chewing something. The Orbit orange stuff was most like the Nicorettes. And a hell of a lot cheaper. Still enough smokers out there. I bought $60k of Phillip Morris in about 2002. Paid 5.4% dividend then. Dividend is now about 4.5% depending on the division. But the stock has tripled in value. Not a bad investment. Oand if the government could stop smoking, the price would drop on the stock. Smoking is very popular overseas. I think that's where the cigarette guys are making the big bucks. In Germany, Marlboro was king. And China. And Korea. Big time in Korea. Forgot about them. |
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On Thu, 06 Feb 2014 16:36:51 -0500, "F.O.A.D." wrote:
On 2/6/14, 4:25 PM, wrote: On Thu, 06 Feb 2014 13:19:13 -0500, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: On 2/6/2014 8:41 AM, Poco Loco wrote: Smoking is very popular overseas. I think that's where the cigarette guys are making the big bucks. In Germany, Marlboro was king. And China. In retrospect I always believed we fought in Vietnam to make the country safe for Budweiser and Marlboro. It is a shame we didn't tell the guys getting killed that at the time. Hell I tried to go twice myself when I thought it was for freedom and democracy. Wiser heads prevailed and both of my requests were denied. I tried to go once, just for money at IBM and that was denied too. Weren't you fellows aware of Thích Qu?ng ??c, who set himself on fire in 1963 to protest the oppression of the Di?m government? There was no real question of freedom and democracy in Vietnam, even after Di?m was assassinated and through the dozen or so governments that followed. I think we were there in force because it provided products to make for our military contractors. In 1963 I was bouncing around from Cocoa Beach to the Bahamas. Didn't own a TV, and didn't ever have an address for over a month, so didn't take a newspaper. At that age I wasn't much interested in Vietnam. I became interested a couple years later, when I got drafted. I suppose I wasn't 'smart' enough to evade it. Once in the Army, I didn't try the conscientious objector route as I'm pretty sure you would have done, given your knowledge and all. In other words, I did as I was told, like the other hundreds of thousands of guys and gals. And guess what...I'm not ashamed of a thing I did. I'm quite proud of it , actually. So put that in your pipe and smoke it. |
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On Wednesday, February 5, 2014 11:25:10 AM UTC-5, KC wrote:
My wife saves about half rolling her own but they doubled the tax on that in the last 5 years so instead of $2.50 a pack, it's now almost 5. She smokes a lot less now that she uses the ecig, but still it's a lot. We are ordering a kit with 250 seeds, seems if we set a place in the yard aside we could probably grow enough on ten plants to keep her going all year... Haven't had a garden in a long time since the deer and raccoons killed our last one a day before harvest. Seems they might not be so interested in eating Tobacco so we'll see. Maybe I will have a report in the fall... I don't know about Americas Laws on it... but you sure as hell CANT grow it up here without a License. |
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On 2/6/14, 5:56 PM, Poco Loco wrote:
On Thu, 06 Feb 2014 16:36:51 -0500, "F.O.A.D." wrote: On 2/6/14, 4:25 PM, wrote: On Thu, 06 Feb 2014 13:19:13 -0500, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: On 2/6/2014 8:41 AM, Poco Loco wrote: Smoking is very popular overseas. I think that's where the cigarette guys are making the big bucks. In Germany, Marlboro was king. And China. In retrospect I always believed we fought in Vietnam to make the country safe for Budweiser and Marlboro. It is a shame we didn't tell the guys getting killed that at the time. Hell I tried to go twice myself when I thought it was for freedom and democracy. Wiser heads prevailed and both of my requests were denied. I tried to go once, just for money at IBM and that was denied too. Weren't you fellows aware of Thích Qu?ng ??c, who set himself on fire in 1963 to protest the oppression of the Di?m government? There was no real question of freedom and democracy in Vietnam, even after Di?m was assassinated and through the dozen or so governments that followed. I think we were there in force because it provided products to make for our military contractors. In 1963 I was bouncing around from Cocoa Beach to the Bahamas. Didn't own a TV, and didn't ever have an address for over a month, so didn't take a newspaper. At that age I wasn't much interested in Vietnam. I became interested a couple years later, when I got drafted. I suppose I wasn't 'smart' enough to evade it. Once in the Army, I didn't try the conscientious objector route as I'm pretty sure you would have done, given your knowledge and all. In other words, I did as I was told, like the other hundreds of thousands of guys and gals. And guess what...I'm not ashamed of a thing I did. I'm quite proud of it , actually. So put that in your pipe and smoke it. In the 1950s and early 1960s, you and I came of age in entirely different worlds. If memory serves, you grew up in a conservative part of the midwest. I grew up in a small New England city in a state dominated by moderate to liberal (for their time) educators and politicians, counterbalanced by a large number of defense contractors. There was a lot of discussion on every issue you can imagine. New Haven was the locus of Griswold v. Connecticut. I'm not saying where I grew up was better. It was just a lot different than where you grew up. There were large, organized anti-war demonstrations early in that decade. I remember long-winded discussions at the student union in Kansas after that monk set himself on fire. As I have posted here before, when a Buddhist monk sets himself on fire to protest his government, you can bet there are serious problems with that government. We didn't do what we were told. We questioned everything. I didn't "evade" the draft. I stayed in touch with my draft board. The draft board never told me to report for a pre-induction physical. I won't say I was upset by its lack of action. Communist or not, I don't blame Ho Chi Minh for that horrific war. Promises were made in the 1940s regarding the future of Vietnam, and after WWII, the French returned and reneged and reestablished colonialism, and then we stepped in and perpetuated white man's rule. Never gave a second's thought to going for C.O. status. It just never came up. |
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On 2/6/2014 6:41 PM, F.O.A.D. wrote:
On 2/6/14, 5:56 PM, Poco Loco wrote: On Thu, 06 Feb 2014 16:36:51 -0500, "F.O.A.D." wrote: On 2/6/14, 4:25 PM, wrote: On Thu, 06 Feb 2014 13:19:13 -0500, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: On 2/6/2014 8:41 AM, Poco Loco wrote: Smoking is very popular overseas. I think that's where the cigarette guys are making the big bucks. In Germany, Marlboro was king. And China. In retrospect I always believed we fought in Vietnam to make the country safe for Budweiser and Marlboro. It is a shame we didn't tell the guys getting killed that at the time. Hell I tried to go twice myself when I thought it was for freedom and democracy. Wiser heads prevailed and both of my requests were denied. I tried to go once, just for money at IBM and that was denied too. Weren't you fellows aware of Thích Qu?ng ??c, who set himself on fire in 1963 to protest the oppression of the Di?m government? There was no real question of freedom and democracy in Vietnam, even after Di?m was assassinated and through the dozen or so governments that followed. I think we were there in force because it provided products to make for our military contractors. In 1963 I was bouncing around from Cocoa Beach to the Bahamas. Didn't own a TV, and didn't ever have an address for over a month, so didn't take a newspaper. At that age I wasn't much interested in Vietnam. I became interested a couple years later, when I got drafted. I suppose I wasn't 'smart' enough to evade it. Once in the Army, I didn't try the conscientious objector route as I'm pretty sure you would have done, given your knowledge and all. In other words, I did as I was told, like the other hundreds of thousands of guys and gals. And guess what...I'm not ashamed of a thing I did. I'm quite proud of it , actually. So put that in your pipe and smoke it. In the 1950s and early 1960s, you and I came of age in entirely different worlds. If memory serves, you grew up in a conservative part of the midwest. I grew up in a small New England city in a state dominated by moderate to liberal (for their time) educators and politicians, counterbalanced by a large number of defense contractors. There was a lot of discussion on every issue you can imagine. New Haven was the locus of Griswold v. Connecticut. I'm not saying where I grew up was better. It was just a lot different than where you grew up. There were large, organized anti-war demonstrations early in that decade. I remember long-winded discussions at the student union in Kansas after that monk set himself on fire. As I have posted here before, when a Buddhist monk sets himself on fire to protest his government, you can bet there are serious problems with that government. We didn't do what we were told. We questioned everything. I didn't "evade" the draft. I stayed in touch with my draft board. The draft board never told me to report for a pre-induction physical. I won't say I was upset by its lack of action. Communist or not, I don't blame Ho Chi Minh for that horrific war. Promises were made in the 1940s regarding the future of Vietnam, and after WWII, the French returned and reneged and reestablished colonialism, and then we stepped in and perpetuated white man's rule. Never gave a second's thought to going for C.O. status. It just never came up. A reasoned and respectful response and a far cry from some previous comments about people who *did* get drafted or enlisted and, due to no choice or fault of their own, participated in the war in Vietnam or in the military in general. Thank you. |
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On Wednesday, February 5, 2014 9:27:40 AM UTC-6, F.O.A.D. wrote:
I wonder if $10.00 a pack would kill off cigarette sales entirely. i doubt it. addicts will still find their fix. And if made $20.00 a pack it'd make no difference. Heroine is totally illegal and look at what happened to Hoffman. |
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On Thu, 06 Feb 2014 13:19:13 -0500, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: On 2/6/2014 8:41 AM, Poco Loco wrote: Smoking is very popular overseas. I think that's where the cigarette guys are making the big bucks. In Germany, Marlboro was king. And China. In retrospect I always believed we fought in Vietnam to make the country safe for Budweiser and Marlboro. It is a shame we didn't tell the guys getting killed that at the time. Hell I tried to go twice myself when I thought it was for freedom and democracy. Wiser heads prevailed and both of my requests were denied. I tried to go once, just for money at IBM and that was denied too. I turned down an NCR trip to VN. They wanted to only boost pay 50% and little expense money. Friend took the job, and they had to raise expense money as was not enough to rent a place. Do not remember his name, only met him a couple times, but one of the guys in my reserve unit was an IBM in country rep. E3 here, but a major for privileges in VN. |
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On 2/6/2014 7:17 PM, Tim wrote:
On Wednesday, February 5, 2014 9:27:40 AM UTC-6, F.O.A.D. wrote: I wonder if $10.00 a pack would kill off cigarette sales entirely. i doubt it. addicts will still find their fix. And if made $20.00 a pack it'd make no difference. Heroine is totally illegal and look at what happened to Hoffman. Broke my heart the other day to run into another old friend who is on Oxycontin, and hooked good by the looks of things. He is a cop... |
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On Thu, 06 Feb 2014 20:49:41 -0500, KC wrote: On 2/6/2014 6:34 PM, wrote: On Wednesday, February 5, 2014 11:25:10 AM UTC-5, KC wrote: My wife saves about half rolling her own but they doubled the tax on that in the last 5 years so instead of $2.50 a pack, it's now almost 5. She smokes a lot less now that she uses the ecig, but still it's a lot. We are ordering a kit with 250 seeds, seems if we set a place in the yard aside we could probably grow enough on ten plants to keep her going all year... Haven't had a garden in a long time since the deer and raccoons killed our last one a day before harvest. Seems they might not be so interested in eating Tobacco so we'll see. Maybe I will have a report in the fall... I don't know about Americas Laws on it... but you sure as hell CANT grow it up here without a License. As I gather so far, you can grow a bit for personal use, and even apply for a permit to grow some to sell yourself.. It would of course have to be taxed etc I would imagine. We just want to grow some for ourselves... I have been away from that for 3 decades but I think they dropped all of that quota stuff that used to be a virtual license for selling it. I think you could always grow all you wanted but you were locked out of the auction for anything that wasn't in your quota. That was some family's most valuable asset, passed down from generation to generation and you saw little patches of tobacco behind every old farm house all over southern Md.. Harry is around there now, maybe he knows what happened to the old quota system. I understand some florist in NYC was one of the biggest tobacco money makers. His family had a huge amount of allotments and he inherited and rented them out. |
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On Fri, 07 Feb 2014 02:05:26 -0500, wrote:
On Thu, 06 Feb 2014 20:49:41 -0500, KC wrote: On 2/6/2014 6:34 PM, wrote: On Wednesday, February 5, 2014 11:25:10 AM UTC-5, KC wrote: My wife saves about half rolling her own but they doubled the tax on that in the last 5 years so instead of $2.50 a pack, it's now almost 5. She smokes a lot less now that she uses the ecig, but still it's a lot. We are ordering a kit with 250 seeds, seems if we set a place in the yard aside we could probably grow enough on ten plants to keep her going all year... Haven't had a garden in a long time since the deer and raccoons killed our last one a day before harvest. Seems they might not be so interested in eating Tobacco so we'll see. Maybe I will have a report in the fall... I don't know about Americas Laws on it... but you sure as hell CANT grow it up here without a License. As I gather so far, you can grow a bit for personal use, and even apply for a permit to grow some to sell yourself.. It would of course have to be taxed etc I would imagine. We just want to grow some for ourselves... I have been away from that for 3 decades but I think they dropped all of that quota stuff that used to be a virtual license for selling it. I think you could always grow all you wanted but you were locked out of the auction for anything that wasn't in your quota. That was some family's most valuable asset, passed down from generation to generation and you saw little patches of tobacco behind every old farm house all over southern Md.. Harry is around there now, maybe he knows what happened to the old quota system. Wonder if the red barn was a tobacco barn? |
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On 2/7/2014 12:03 PM, wrote:
On Fri, 07 Feb 2014 08:13:49 -0500, Poco Loco wrote: On Fri, 07 Feb 2014 02:05:26 -0500, wrote: I have been away from that for 3 decades but I think they dropped all of that quota stuff that used to be a virtual license for selling it. I think you could always grow all you wanted but you were locked out of the auction for anything that wasn't in your quota. That was some family's most valuable asset, passed down from generation to generation and you saw little patches of tobacco behind every old farm house all over southern Md.. Harry is around there now, maybe he knows what happened to the old quota system. Wonder if the red barn was a tobacco barn? Every one I ever saw was unpainted but I think they tore all of them down to sell the lumber. In the 70s and 80s yuppies (and their foo foo interior designers) were paying enough for authentic heartwood "barn boards" that you could afford to tear it down and build a new barn. Unfortunately the wood these days is not as good and you might have to paint it. Yup, it was a huge business here for a while... I grew up playing in those barns... Living life on the beams, 5 stories up where principals and truant officers couldn't even see you with a flashlight:) |
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