Smoke Your Own!

From the collection of

The Box
Established in 1992, the South West Film & Television Archive collection spans from 1893 to the present day containing more than 250,000 items. Formed from a variety of depositors, including broadcast news and programmes material from the Westward and TSW archive. In 2018 the archive collection transferred to The Box in Plymouth.

Smoke Your Own!


Since 1944 it is legal to grow 25lbs of tobacco for one's own consumption. Del Cooper reports from Rockwell Green near Wellington and interviews Joe Margrove in his garage workshop and sees him curing the tobacco he grows for his own consumption. An allotment with 500 plants is enough to yield up to 54 kilos of tobacco but growers pay tax on their yield. Adverts in the 1970s encouraged pipe tobacco and cigar smoking but cigarette advertising was banned on UK television in 1965.


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