Thread: New meaning to the phrase "roll your own"

Now in Brooklyn, Homegrown Tobacco: Local, Rebellious and Tax Free
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Audrey Silk, with Bingo, estimates she will save thousands of dollars by processing her own cigarettes.
By MANNY FERNANDEZ
Published: February 24, 2011

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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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Ms. Silk, a retired police officer and the founder of a smokers’ rights group, grows her own tobacco and dries the leaves in her basement.
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Leftover tobacco leaves in Audrey Silk’s backyard. Ms. Silk says the leaves look “like elephant earsâ€

She probably never should have done the article if she is worried about the establishment coming after her. I notice here in N Carolina there are people who grow their own tobacco in their gardens. It would not have all them chemicals in it for one thing. I wish her luck in her fight,although I do not smoke. But it still infringes on persons rights when they want to light up.

They say it is unhealthy!

Look at the food items they have on the market. Or look at the fast foods chains that feed the grease and fats. Look at Monsanto who is trying to take over the food industry