Please Note:

We do not offer tobacco leaf or any other tobacco products for sale.

This section of the website is intended for the historical and informational purposes of thinking adults. Anyone who has been raised since the turn of the 20th century already knows that tobacco can be addictive and lead to various forms of cancer.  If you do not smoke, it would seem illogical to start.  We, in no way, encourage people to use any form of tobacco product.

In his 1954 work, "The Gentle Art of Smoking", Alfred H. Dunhill was nostalgic for a past when smoking was an "art" and enjoyed as a pleasurable pastime in elegant smoking rooms. He remarked that the "furious tempo of modern life" had resulted in tobacco, in the form of ubiquitous cigarettes, being used as a narcotic to calm frayed nerves and becoming a habit and therefore no longer pleasurable.  Common sense dictates that anything you do to your body in excess (a habit) is detrimental.

'Perique' Tobacco
Nicotiana tabacum L.

Perique has medium sized leaves with fine fiber, small stems, tough, gummy and glossy in texture.

Used as a smoking, chewing, cigar, and cigarette variety.  It is generally not used exclusively but rather used sparingly in mixes to add body and dimension.

Louisiana is historically the primary growing region of this pre-1880 variety.

Click here for a history of the variety and its historic curing method.

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