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	Growing addiction ! tobacco

ofcapri

8-20-2009 7:46 AM

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Some smokers plant tobacco in garden to save money
"If I sold doughnuts in a bakery would I feel guilty because fat people come in and buy them?" she asked. "It just happens to be a very good year for tobacco seeds."

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Something unusual is cropping up alongside the tomatoes, eggplant and okra in Scott Byars's Richmond, Va., vegetable garden - the elephantine leaves of 30 tobacco plants.
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Driven largely by ever-rising tobacco prices, he's among a growing number of smokers that have turned to their green thumbs to cultivate tobacco plants to blend their own cigarettes, cigars and chew. Byars normally pays $5 for a five-pack of cigars and $3 for a tin of snuff; the seed cost him $9.
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