HEY.......You were paying attentionI use them because they are the cheapest I can get.$1.69 a box or 17 cents a pack or 0.845 a cigarette less than a penny there is 200 per box
Available on-line? I'm in Maryland and the most prevalent brands available are Top, Ziggy, Premier, and Gambler, with Premier being the least, although marginally so, expensive - unless you have a carton coupon from Gambler - which typically puts them in the ball park (about $2.25 a carton). I did stop in a shop in Delaware while vacationing and managed to get a deal on a bundle of ten cartons of Premier tubes for $1.75, but they'll hunt you down and publicly execute you here if the State Revenuers find out.
A warning to anyone reading this and thinking of just letting there scraps and waste rot in their tobacco patch. I saw in at least one video that growers will not leave the broken leaf pieces etc in their field to rot. it can get tobacco diseases started. As DeluxStogie mentioned. Burn them and return them to the patch as ashes. I just would not want a bunch of folks coming up with some disease next year cause they just let the stems and ribs compost right in the soil.
Ditto that. Tomatoes and tobacco both can be effected by leaving trimmings and dead tissue lying about. Tobacco mosaic virus is also easily transmitted from one group of plants to the other, so it's always a good practice to try and wash your hands at the very least, and visit each patch wearing completely different sets of clothing and shoes if at all possible. Example - walking the garden picking suckers off of tomato plants is something that we have always been careful to avoid even something as seemingly innocent as after smoking a cig, since the virus can apparently even still be present in commercially processed smokes. Don't know how accurate that information is, but we've never had any problems with TMV whereas most everybody around us has. We do a lot of composting here, and keep some good hot piles going pretty much all of the time, but I'd still be a little leery of relying on that alone to kill the virus (which is apparently just about everywhere around here) in case part of the pile doesn't get hot enough to do the job. Can't burn here, so I don't know exactly what I'll have to do other than haul it off to the dump. As for what they use in the crappy Yobama cigs... my guess was pencil sharpening shavings. How else could they manage to get Marlboro to taste like that?