Damn right about the smell

It sure is

It’s the best

Do you guys know where this farm exactly is? If I drive, might they give me some freshly cured leaves?

​@@mrh4742 They mentioned it a couple of times but it's an odd word and not easy to understand. It's called Caratoke. But just look for Currituck, NC. It's in the EXTREME northeastern corner of the state... damn near in Virginia. You don't just drive past it, you pretty much have to be specifically going there. Friendly people though.

I buy the organic leaf and make my own cigs with organic tubes as well. I also sprinkle a layer of activated charcoal on top of the natural filter before I load it with the tobacco which removes 60% of the cancer causing free radicals, 80% of the carbon monoxide, and reduces nictotine level by 30%, all based on clinical studies. People forget that modern cigs have bleached paper, plastic filters that release toxins when heated, the cigs are filled with reconsituted tobacco which is laced with ammonia to make it more addictive, and numbing agents.

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BBC documentaries are much better than most public network documentary in the US.

In my opinion, you're leaving out another major group profiting from tobacco at the expense of the farmer: the tobacco companies. Yes, taxes are high on tobacco. But man oh man do those tobacco companies make some money. Billions and billions of dollars. So, those middlemen take a huge cut: the processors, wholesalers, and retailers. I'm a pipe smoker, so I only buy boutique tobaccos blended in a tobacconist or from a small, private company like Cornell and Diehl. I don't inhale and am not addicted to nicotine. I'd be curious to hear your thoughts on cannabis taxes. The taxes on recreational cannabis in the United States are immense in the states that have them, and the money is often earmarked for such purposes as education. I am against taxes for discouraging use but am not against them for funding such endeavors as healthcare and education.

That's the same beautiful socialist government Democrats want to impose on the U.S. ,,,,,but of course you guys over there in the U.K. everything is for free, right? Medicine, schooling, houses, utilities and so on.

Big trend in Canada now back then the roots of smoking natural tobacco, commercial tobacco companies ruined cigarettes and government ruined the affordability. Raw leaf tobacco is still considered an agricultural commodity in Canada so taxes are minimal and we can import from the US 15kg/year for personal use.

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how could he not feel that? that funny as crap. Must be the same family of fly on VP Pence's head. Like, Ninja fly.

I lived in Indian Trail for 9 years. Loved it there.

Where? How big is your operation? Are you commercial?

zimbabwe 20.hacters much.work is done manualy firewood stil used for curing and convectional burns but still.people make a living out if it.fetching 5 us per kilo

Like everything else, it’s foreign competition. Only about 25% of the Tobacco used in this country is grown here. The rest comes from Brazil, India, and Africa, and it’s driven the price down. American farmers can’t compete with child labor.

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​@@gacitizen2 Georgians were living better than us Tarheels back then. I made $20 a day in 1979 cropping from first light til the last stick was hung on the bottom tier on those 5 room barns. Often 6 in the afternoon/evening. Hated the hell out of it but I would love so much to relive it.

Flue cured is used in all tobacco products.

I have my lip all full of in tabacos very salty minty juicy brown snuff

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Actually the wages are very good. Americans tend to be more lazy and don’t want to do hard labor, so farmers don’t have a choice, but to outsource the labor to people willing to do the work.

@@The-Hoggards I retired 2 years ago after 42 years as a pipeline construction worker that has traveled the US across countless fields of rice, tobacco, wheat, corn, soybeans, cotton, and every other crop imaginable. For the big commercial farms the labor is always the same,...Illegals working for peanuts, most of them living in shacks or the barns with a dozen illegitimate bastards in tow, looking for food stamps or a medical card. The farmers story is the same everywhere. They want the very cheapest labor they can find and they are willing to break the law to get it. I saw them arrested by ICE all the time and get deported, only to be right back in a week or two in the same spot. They come back from south of the border carrying TB, measles, pneumonia, whooping cough, VD, and lots of other stuff that spreads like wildfire. Pipeline crews are not much different, hiring illegal trash that infects and shuts down entire crews with their diseases. We had one rule. Never teach a Latino ANY trade here. They all need to be deported and shot if they return again illegally. As for lazy, they all say it is too hot to work in Mexico, that is why they are here. The only reason they work for peanuts is because they are dumb as a box of rocks and they don't have to worry about some drug lord robbing them blind here like it is down south of the border. I have seen it all. Been there, done that. Americans won't work a 4 month job with no future is what you should have said.

But the do speed up the process tremendously.

what were dangerous about them?

@@bluecloud6437 they were difficult to work with, that coupled with the fact that they weighed so much. If one fell on someone...

no hay amor. estoy es business.

I was just looking at this with my mouth wide open thinking the same. Technology and quality expectations are totally not the same as back in the day- I don't smoke and happy for that. LOL- you better no crop the green leaves, drop on ground, or takeoff/ pack green stems. We had to neatly placed/ laid out the bacca in a circular pattern on a huge burlap sheet/ tarp. Took some muscle to tie the bale and lift into the flatbed farm truck...no forklift only country muscle. HATED suckering and topping the most...urghh.

In North Carolina they said picking Virginia we pulled it

+Kamil Chwalik flue-cured farming is centered in north carolina not virginia, this is in north carolina, and you're not seeing the final product in this

Part of me wants to blame the farmer as well. However given the current market it's hard to hate on someone that MUST deal with the industry he grows for and sadly the tobacco industry like most isn't going to pay more to have better tobacco and less of it.

If there wasnt a market for low quality, he wouldn't be spending his time making low quality. Somebody is going to provide it, it just happens to be this guy. You'd probably be surprised how most of the major brands are lined up to buy this same quality product.

@@Pinion512 Makes sense. Just hurts my heart.