With the rising cost of tobacco, more smokers than before are growing and making their own tobacco at home. Also to avoid dangerous phosphate fertilizers, which are being used by the commercial growing industry. Growing tobacco for your own use is fully permitted in most areas. Should a garden not be available, then you can also grow your tobacco plants in large pots on a balcony or inside the house. To dry the leaves and to process them into cigarette or pipe tobacco does not require any special equipment. All this can be done right in your own kitchen. After the harvest, you can already enjoy your own tobacco within weeks and not months or years. It is easy and fast! I smoke homemade tobacco already for years. Making your own tobacco is fun and inexpensive. Please go to: www.seedgnome.com to check out my tobacco seeds and the two booklets. The Health Reason: Tobacco plants deplete the soil of nutrients much faster than most other plants. Therefore, cost-effective phosphate fertilizers are being used in the tobacco farming industry. However, phosphate fertilizers contain a natural occurring radioactive radon, which the leaves pick up. When smoking, this radon is then getting into the lungs. Radio activity never leaves the body. It builds up and it causes cancer. Phosphates are a killer! Smoking daily 1 1/2 packs of cigarettes for a year, equals to at least 300 chest x-rays. Check this out on the Internet for yourself. Do not use phosphate fertilizers when growing tobacco, vegetables or fruits!