Growing tobacco for cigars

Greeks smoke more cigarettes than any other European nationalities. My dear husband is one of the smokers that work hard to keep Greeks on the top of the statistics - he smokes at least two packets a day.
When I try to tell him that he needs to stop, both because of his health and because of our finances, his eyes go glassy, he looses attention and suddenly starts doing something else.
And lights another ziggy.
Because my talk makes him stressed.
But even he realizes now, with the latest tax on cigarettes, that smoking is a very expensive habit.
So earlier this summer he came home with two tobacco plants that he planted in the vegetable garden. And now the leaves are hanging in the shed above his old motorbike to dry.

Greece used to be big on growing tobacco - actually Christos grew up with tobacco farming. Interestingly, while you can grow as much tobacco as you like, you are not allowed to smoke your own crop. I think this says all about how nasty the tobacco industry is - because of course, they have paid to get that law through, forcing people to smoke fabric produced cigarettes that are stuffed with chemicals, including things that make the smoke penetrate deeper into your lungs and make you more easily addicted.
I honestly suspect that smoking organically, home grown tobacco won´t do much harm.
Meanwhile, there is a way to go.
The tobacco has to be rolled into cigars.
And the true way to do that is supposedly on the thigh of a Cuban woman.
Which gives me hope that my husband finally will go on that trip to Cuba he keeps promising to take...