Great deals coming out of Canada

[craig]

Short answer - the price is legit - but I call it the price for American tourists (if there are any coming - Intrawest just declared bankruptcy).

Just as some states have high taxes (Cali is 100% I believe), so do different provinces. BC is high. Mail-order is (essentially) illegal here, and tobacco can't (more-or-less) be shipped across provincial boundaries.

[Paddy]

Short answer - the price is legit - but I call it the price for American tourists (if there are any coming - Intrawest just declared bankruptcy).

Just as some states have high taxes (Cali is 100% I believe), so do different provinces. BC is high. Mail-order is (essentially) illegal here, and tobacco can't (more-or-less) be shipped across provincial boundaries.

Thank you, I get it. I just thought that was absurdly priced. I did not know taxes were that high. I believe the tax in Ma. is 30%

[craig]

It is absurdly priced - but absurd is relative. I'd say a Padron 80th at about $100US a stick is more absurd :-0.

[MarineOne]

It is absurdly priced - but absurd is relative. I'd say a Padron 80th at about $100US a stick is more absurd :-0.

$100 must be for the natural because you know the maduro would be $45 more.

[Mangyrat]

I will not bitch about the SC tax again 7%

[Paddy]

That 30% is not sales tax. That is an excise tax levied on tobacco on top of the 6.25% state sales tax in the great State of Massachusetts

[ggiese]

Buncha whiners over a few shekels on a cigar...

I'd gladly pay the taxes if my state would just let me smoke somewhere.