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.

'Russian Red' Tobacco
Nicotiana tabacum L.

We do not know much about this variety other than the USDA added it to their seed collection in 1939.

Plants are short, averaging three to four feet, leaf color is a beautiful dark green with a rounded shape resembling old Cuban-types.

The leaves cure to a medium tan to light red color.

As you can see from the picture, the flowers are beautiful making this variety a great choice as an ornamental plant.

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