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The smarter ones amongst us can grow them both on the same plant:
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It got me wondering why more people don't grow their own?
My grandad used grow his own tobacco and then send it off to get dried and he’d get it back in the post.
It gets grown in research a lot as it’s a model organism so you can change the genetics comparatively easily.
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I noticed quite a few tabac fields in France which I haven't seen for a long time.
Maybe it's booming again. I doubt they feed it to the cattle. Are you sure it's not sugar beets?
I spent a few summers when I was a teenager picking up leaves in tobacco fields. Back-breaking, low-paying (obvs undeclared by the local slavedriver of a farmer) tough job.
The dark nicotine residue on your finger nails after a week's work is enough to get anyone never to take up smoking.(hourly rate paid to us at the end of the season was something like £1.35 c. 1987-88)
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I noticed quite a few tabacco fields in France which I haven't seen for a long time.
It got me wondering why more people don't grow their own? I mean if people indulge in ridiculous practices like growing tomatoes or looking after chickens, then surely growing and shaving your own backie must be trifling.