Smoked for 35 years. My last one was July 19, 2007, at 0230 hrs. Loved Virginia tobacco, but she didn’t love me. I quit her and never looked back. Those of you still hooked on “coffin nails”, have my deepest sympathy.
Always the crony capitalists seek to “level the playing field”.
Like the Democrats before them they are owned by Big Tobacco, Big Smoked Ham and Enormous State Universities.
I have several friends who have cig-rolling machines and save BIG money by manufacturing their own smokes.
I smoke tobacco.
Currently the manufactured menthol flavored brand I prefer retails at $3.74 a pack.
There is a local tobacco shop that provides customers the choice to duplicate or create their own generic “blend” of dried plant ingredients, and provides customers access to simple machines that roll the blended tobacco with paper and filters, into finished cigarettes.
The business that offers this option, was started by laid off cigar workers from nearby Tampa/Ybor City manufacturing plants.
Certain elements of “government” and some large scale manufacturers are very angry that capitolism actually works, and all those “sin taxes” and “brand names” mean very little to the consumers of a simple, legal plant product. It flips their whole world upside down! Contrast that with people who happily pay twice as much for raw coffee beans, and grind them "fresh" at the store or at home. Or those who blend their own tea leaves to taste, instead of buying Lipton pre-packaged tea bags. Are people only allowed to do it ourselves, if we must pay twice as much for raw products? ROTFLMAO!