Build Your Own Tobacco Drying Unit

Did you know it is legal to grow your own tobacco?

Tobacco Planting, Raising and Curing

With this product, anyone who has a garden can now process some of the finest tobacco possible. Home cured tobacco is free of the thousands of chemical additives included in commercial cigarettes and the delicious, full tobacco flavor cannot be compared with anything on the market today.

On average, you can expect to cure a little over 2 kilos (about 5 pounds) of tobacco at a time over a 3-4 week period.

Each commercial king size cigarette usually contains a little less than a gram of tobacco each. This means that you can expect to cure enough tobacco for about 2,500 cigarettes each time.

This product can be used continuously, meaning that you can start curing a fresh batch of tobacco the same day you remove a cured batch. You can also use this to cure tobacco that has been air-drying for months. We mention this because you may wish to cure tobacco for your neighbors or community and recover some of your cost.  If you do charge to do this, make sure you abide by your local, state and federal laws.

How much does it cost to produce a carton of cigarettes better than store brands? We get asked this a lot, and here is a general answer:

1. In order to start processing your own tobacco, you will need the following equipment: A drying unit, a cutting machine, and a rolling machine.
   
2. Once you have these items and your first crop of tobacco, all you will need to purchase for cigarette production is flavoring, filters and papers. If you use the Filtermatic Rolling Machine that we offer (the only one we have found that rolls 10 cigarettes at a time), the cost of filters and papers will run about $5.85 a carton.  Adding flavoring (we strongly recommend this) will add about a $1.00 to the cost or a total of just under seven dollars a carton for filter cigarettes, or just under five dollars a carton for non-filtered cigarettes.
   
3. We did not include the cost of the unit, cutting machine and rolling machine as this should be absorbed over the length of time you process your tobacco.  If you currently pay $25.00 a carton for cigarettes, and smoke a carton a week, you would realize a savings of about $936.00 a year (probably more since you will not be paying you local and state taxes on this as you do store bought cigarettes).

Of course this savings will only get larger each year, because prices are only going to go up on cigarettes, not down.

 We must stress that the real savings is to your health, as you will not be consuming the thousands of additives that are added to commercial brands.

What you will receive:

• Access to our site with 26 large, full-color pictures showing the easy step-by-step instructions for building this unit, including exact measurements and tools needed.

• Detailed instructions on how to plant, raise and cure tobacco.

• Sources for  tobacco accessories including making your own cigars.