Advice on tobacco cultivation

[dewi]

Makes you wonder what the duty if for when you can grow your own in pots in your back garden... but then we wouldn't have an NHS if it wasn't for the duty... sadly ironic.

 

[Chiseller]

Makes you wonder what the duty if for when you can grow your own in pots in your back garden... but then we wouldn't have an NHS if it wasn't for the duty... sadly ironic.

plenty online ...try googling gawiths tobacco and you will find plenty of online suppliers that have various flake etc etc in large quantities like half kilo bags in the region of £110 upwards.

i prefered flake when i smoked pipes.

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[tombear]

It would seam you legally can buy whole cured leaves without duty, about £20 a kilo. They state that you must contact HMRC if you are going to slice it up for smoking and they are just supplying it for other purposes eg insectercide and medicinal BUT on the same page they offer to sell you the equipment to slice it up sub 1.5mm for cigarettes.....although I wouldn't risk it it would seam that the evidence they would need to prosecute you would boil down to cured leaf, processed cigarettet rag and specialised equipment for chopping it up.


its a minefield so if I do grow any it will be only if I can prove that it's just for insecticide and ornament.

ATB

Tom

 

[santaman2000]

To be honest it's a fair undertaking to grow it for consumption anyway. It's generally going to be a two year process: one year to grow it and the second year to cure it properly.

 

[petrochemicals]

It would seam you legally can buy whole cured leaves without duty, about £20 a kilo. They state that you must contact HMRC if you are going to slice it up for smoking and they are just supplying it for other purposes

That would be right as tobacco products are taxed per weight at about 80%. A kilo then costing 100. You do not have to pay tax on it unless you sell it it seems, as it may mean just growing something would get you into debt.

 

[David LaFerney]

Just curious - how much is a pack of cigs from a store in the UK?

 

[Goatboy]

For a pack of 20 it ranges from about £4.50 up to about £8.00
12.5g of rolling tobacco costs around £4.50

Couldn't tell you the price of pipe tobacco or snuff these days.

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[Samon]

Around £5-10 for a pack of 20 round here, depending on brands.

£6 for 25grams of otc pipe baccy, £13.50 for 50grams of something like Dunhill.

Factor in minimum adult wage is £6.70 an hour and baccy aint cheap.