[OBAFGKM]

"People could grow their own tobacco too, but they don't."

Try that and you have heavily armed ATF thugs knocking in your door so fast it'll make your head spin!

[KeepUSfree]

No you won't. You can buy tobacco seed from any decent seed catalog. I grow it all the time - to ATTRACT bugs!!!!

[flada]

You can actually legally grow up to 1/5th acre of tobacco. It's actually rather easy to grow if you live in USDA zone 6 or better (you even have a pretty good chance of growing a decent crop in most of zone 5). It is far more difficult to cure it and turn it into a product that anyone would want to smoke or chew, however. It takes a pretty consistent humidity for as much as two years to cure it properly, although there are methods for more rapid curing which are more expensive to implement.