Some years ago I wrote a brief blog about my attempts to find a rolling tobacco, broadly similar to Camel cigarrettes. Well the search continues. It's been going on for 30 years so I don't expect it to compleet any time soon, but I do feel I'm getting closer.

The USA web sites for roll your own afficionados speak very highly of Peter Stokkebye's Turkish Export. So I went on a quest to try and find a UK or European supplier. I drew a blank from the specialist UK online tobacconists. Even though some of them do carry other Stokkebye products, this was a typical response.

I have asked the UK distributor of Peter Stokkebye to consider adding this to their stock list before but they say it isn't viable. It is on the website www.tobaccoonline.co.uk but their minimum order is 4x300g plus shipping

Now 4*300g is a substantial amount of rolling tobacco. And I'd really like to try more like 30g before committing.

I have found some USA sites who will ship to the UK, but inevitably, a Denmark made product shipped to the USA and then shipped back to Europe is pretty expensive. A $25 pouch ends up being more like $100 after shipping and tax.

I feel sure that somewhere in Europe there's a specialist supplier who can help. But Google is not my friend here. As a UK-English speaker it's extraordinarily hard to do searches for retailers based in Europe. You constantly get pushed back to either spam shopping search sites or American sites.

Stokkebye is part of the Villiger Group from Switzerland. However, the Stokkebye-Villiger website seems to be based in the USA and is not answering my queries.

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