Smoke Your Own!
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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.