You can grow it now. Its not commercially viable but tobacco grows very well as a garden plant in the UK if you treat it as a summer annual. My Grandad used to grow it for himself and the vicar. They laced it with brandy and cured it in a tin box under the compost heap.
i've no doubt that you are right, but it can't be growing as well as the real deal or someone would've found a way to make a go of it by now. Not far off I'm sure. I can remember peach trees bearing delicious edible fruit in the 60s but the trees were pretty fragile and gave way to disease/cold eventually.
I've heard it is also illegal to smoke in a company vehicle, even if you are self employed, own the vehicle and are the only one that uses it.
I remember Grandad smoking his in his pipe. It was pretty pungent but he lived to 93 so it can't have done that much harm. And he smoked a pipe from the age of 12.
It's considered a place of work, and as such you can't smoke there. It is open to interpretation though: Is the vehicle sign-written. Is it registered in your own private name, or to a company name. Etc Nasher
Growing your own and processing it is easy, flavouring it with all sorts of things is possible, however, you need to mature an awful lot of plants during the spring/summer to get enough dried leaves to keep a 20 a day habit going all year. Nasher.
I be reluctant to say that smoking is harmless but given the decline in smoking in recent years yet still 1 in 3(?) people will get some sort of cancer id say ya dammed if you do, dammed if you don't. granted it has dire health implications but no worse than alcohol for example. yet alot of non smokers will happily drink whilst preaching about the evils of tobacco. Something in the region of 90% of violent crime is attributed to booze and it's effects on innocent bystanders are way more damaging than a bit of passive smoking.
It is illegal if the vehicle can be described as a workplace,even if it's your own. BUT I'm fairly certain that no one has ever been prosecuted for it,and it's never been enforced. Which is a pity: many truck drivers regularly overnight* in the cab,essentially that makes it their home. I was really,really hoping I would see some self-important local government Hi-Viz wearer bang on the door of an Irish truck in the middle of the night, demanding that the driver stub his tab out. Especially if said driver had just had a few beers...I reckon Hi-Viz would have been horizontal and looking up at the stars in not many seconds...a richly deserved reward if it happened. Even the filth have seen sense on that particular law though... *the Frogs and Huns have just started enforcing a long-existing law that prevents a truckie from having his weekend 45hr break in the cab,essentially trying to prise the Eastern Europeans out of the cab and in to a Hotel.Got fuck all to do with safety,it's just spite because the Easty Beasties undercut everybody in the West.
For now, it seems that this is not being enforced anyway! No fines issued for smoking in cars with children - BBC News
https://www.bbc.com/news/health-48826850 They were talking about this on the radio this morning, one of the things they are going to do to combat obesity is put 'obesity can cause diseases' warning labels on Cigarette packets, strange way of thinking.
Being in Germany reminds me of some of the big differences between U.K. and the rest of the EU. Smoking in bars. Smoking in restaurants. At the table. At the bar. Same rules apply, don’t they? Just that UK follow them, while the rest ignore what they done want to do
The difference in other countries seems, to me, that they do all the ‘why you shouldn’t (insert enjoyable thing here)’ but if you decide you still want to do it they accommodate you.
no, the same rules dont apply. there is no EU wide blanket legislation on most things accross the EU.
its another one of those EU boogyman myths about what you’re allowed to do in the U.K. Its up to each member nation to decide and Germany is pretty relaxed about it comparatively but different states have different laws, Bavaria for example has a strict ban on public smoking
@25yrs ago I visited Ismaning near Munich lots of times for work, whilst I actually worked in the Tobacco Industry. It amazed me that there were Cigarette vending machines on the street, even in industrial estates that were quiet at night, and they were still in one piece with all the packets in place every morning. They would be robbed very quickly in most other countries, I’ve even seen a vending machine dragged out of a pub in Portsmouth whilst the pub was busy. Nasher
