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Will the S-CHIP effect your buying of cigars?

I personally think that it could have been worse for us. I can live with 40 cents more. I wish they would just leave us alone. We need to band together and make sure our rights are protected. CRA is a step in the right direction.

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Permalink Reply by Charming Karl, Cookie King on February 8, 2009 at 2:26pm

Well, Anthony, if it didn't cost 3 hundred some dollars to join CRA, I would think of it more favorably. Right now it strikes me as another toy for the well-heeled, to remind us that they are well-heeled and we're not. They can plunk down their money, rub elbows with cigarmakers and other well-heeled folks, and pontificate on how bizarre it is that the unlightened majority doesn't understand that cigarsmoking is the highest form of existence.

In the meantime, the rest of us get to try and figure out how the S-Chip thing is going to affect our lives, if at all. I agree that 40 cents doesn't sound like much. But then when you hear folks saying, well it's really 80 cents because the manufacturer has to make back what he's losing from the tax, plus other and sundry things like rising local taxes, then it becomes a maelstrom of unhappy thoughts. Personally, I don't think it's going to affect me much. I horrendously overbought in 2008, and now I can live off of my cigar inventory for a couple years if I have to, as long as my humi and coolers cooperate. I'll save my money and use it on other fun things like traveling to places where I can smoke my cigars in the company of friends...

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Permalink Reply by Mr. Erskine on February 8, 2009 at 3:41pm

I don't know that it will effect my cigar buying. It may affect same of the choices that I make in what I get but not that I buy or how often.

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Permalink Reply by Randall T on February 8, 2009 at 3:48pm

Anthony.
This is on top of massive taxes they increased on cigars in the mid '90s. Those tax increases together with the gouging the manufacturers threw out caused me to quit smoking cigars completely for about 5 years. Since I mostly smoke sticks in the 3-4 dollar range it probably won't effect me too much but every little bit hurts eh? Watching our government at work is enough to make you sick. What don't they screw up that they deal with? Why not put 40 cents tax on a Whopper, or some Twinkies while they're at it?