Soul_Adventurer
New Member
Hi all. My name's Ben, I'm 22. I live in a small town called Marine City on the St. Clair River, about a 40 minute drive from Detroit, Michigan. Did my first real attempt at gardening last summer; it was a mild success. I love hiking, kayaking, backpacking, being outdoors in general, especially the mountains (none of those here). I've been smoking since I was 16 or 17, but for the last year or so I've been getting more and more sick and tired of paying 6-7 dollars a pack for shitty, mass produced, "fire-safe" smokes. I enjoy smoking tobacco, but with these name-brand smokes, I'm super addicted and always feel halfway shitty. It's tough not to smoke close to a pack a day, sometimes more, and I intuitively feel that it's all the additives and nasty chemicals and manipulated nicotine content that's really to blame. I'll smoke American Spirits every now and then, and after 2 or 3 days of doing so, I've noticed that although I can feel the nicotine entering my system during and after smoking one, I'm left with a craving for something else... a Marlboro or a Camel! So that needs to stop. I just want to enjoy tobacco in a moderate, natural way, not scorch my lungs with 20 of these nasty ass chemical bombs every day for the rest of my life. I'm trying to start better living up to my ideals of what it means to be self-sufficient, healthy, sane, and socially/environmentally conscious. Supporting liquor stores, chain gas stations/grocery stores, and Big Tobacco to the tune of thousands of dollars a year while I make myself ill and unhealthy with an inferior product is not my idea of a good time. So I hope to learn some stuff here about growing/harvesting my own tobacco, and, shucks, maybe even make a few friends.
Also, by the way, I enjoy smoking cigars of different kinds and sizes, but I'm mainly a cigarette guy. Although I do enjoy those cig-sized filterless little cigars of decent quality about equally as well, whatever they're called. I'm a total novice in the whole wide world of tobacco, I don't know much about cigar classifications, names or ratings, and absolutely nothing about growing my own crop. My pops has created himself a good-paying job in the last few years and now fancies himself something of a cigar aficionado, so now me and him have a good time trying out new stogies together and acting like we know what we're talking about. But it's really fun.
Also, by the way, I enjoy smoking cigars of different kinds and sizes, but I'm mainly a cigarette guy. Although I do enjoy those cig-sized filterless little cigars of decent quality about equally as well, whatever they're called. I'm a total novice in the whole wide world of tobacco, I don't know much about cigar classifications, names or ratings, and absolutely nothing about growing my own crop. My pops has created himself a good-paying job in the last few years and now fancies himself something of a cigar aficionado, so now me and him have a good time trying out new stogies together and acting like we know what we're talking about. But it's really fun.