WV targets dissolvables

[Mohave]

Mohave, you lucky rat.

Well, they were the only local retailer of the stuff, so I'm only lucky 'till this stash runs out. In about autumn of the year 2013 or thereabouts.

[TropicalBob]

That should do you.

Been saying for years that if I won the Lottery, I'd buy huge quantities of the tobacco products that I use. Years ago, I said this when a carton of my premium cigarettes was $12. Today, it's $40 and going up. Pipe tobacco is set to double in cost.

And these Stonewall Java babies are on the line, because they are flavored. I'd buy boxes the size that store refrigerators for transport if I had the cash.

P.S. A lot of pipe smokers are buying a lifetime supply of pipe tobacco. It doesn't go "bad" and they're stocking up.

[Mohave]

I think you're right about flavorings probably making Stonewall vulnerable in the future. It isn't something I use regularly, but I do like having it around as an option. My half decade stash of that would probably last you 'till Tuesday.

Pipe tobacco is set to double in cost...

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P.S. A lot of pipe smokers are buying a lifetime supply of pipe tobacco. It doesn't go "bad" and they're stocking up.

Is that a Florida issue, or is there something already on the books nationally right now besides the recent S-CHIP tax? To my surprise I have started becoming a regular pipe smoker, and I thought they might be less of a target, and possibly escape some problems.

[TropicalBob]

I'm a REAL regular pipe smoker - daily, with a large stash of tobacco.

The fear is general paranoia among an elite group of smokers (I've never read a more articulate, intelligent group than those found on pipe forums). They fear several things coming to pass: Insurance forcing out online sales; credit card companies denying payments for all tobacco products sold online; and a ban on all delivery, postal or otherwise, of all tobacco products to residences.

So it's not just tax and inflation that is their issue. There are many who see a clamping down on tobacco that will shut off supplies of anything not found in your local drugstore. Real? I don't know, but I'm stocking as I did with e-liquid. Pipes are pure pleasure to me. I'm steady at four a day.

P.S. Doubling price via tax is a Florida issue. The wholesale gets a 25 percent tobacco tax, then that total gets a 60-70% tax per ounce of retail. It's roughly $1 an ounce in tax!

[tescela]

Did you see that Congress is now seriously considering implementing ANOTHER $2.00 per pack increase in the tax on cigarettes?!!

(Once again, they are apparently saying that the tax increase is to pay for healthcare.)

[TropicalBob]

Unbelievable. Keep it up and there will be a black market in tobacco products to rival moonshine during Prohibition.