Any cigar smokers?

[JDgreen]

Over 20% of the price of Cigars is tax.
As a taxpayer...I would like to take this oppourtunity to thank you for your support:thumbsup:

Sometimes I wonder if the so called "sin taxes" on items like alcohol and tobacco have any effect on reducung the use of such products. With sales taxes, I spend about $14 every two weeks on my nightly glass of zinfandel...which may sound like a lot, but the daily newspaper here which can be read in five minutes costs 75 cents....

 

[Bison]

No, but I do the much more politically incorrect thing...I smoke cigarettes! That's akin to kicking three-legged dogs and tripping old ladies as they cross the street these days, isn't it?

I'll still do it if it kills me. :wink:

I'm afraid i'm in the same boat.:wink:
It's not the smoking that bothers me that much,But the tax leeching by the gov-ment on tobacco is getting to me. It was set off by these selfrightious anti smoking morons that blame every disease and all polution on it while still driving their gas guzzlers.

I roll my own but that is now more expensive than the sawdust filled ready mades(yuk)

 

[RobertBrown]

I'm afraid i'm in the same boat.:wink:
It's not the smoking that bothers me that much,But the tax leeching by the gov-ment on tobacco is getting to me. It was set off by these selfrightious anti smoking morons that blame every disease and all polution on it while still driving their gas guzzlers.

I roll my own but that is now more expensive than the sawdust filled ready mades(yuk)

How long before people catch on and start growong thier own tobacco?

 

[Bison]

How long before people catch on and start growong thier own tobacco?

I tried that 3 years in a row,no go
I never got it ripe enough to harvest,i'm afraid our season here ain't long enough :frown:
Late spring early frost,killing frost in september "twice"!

 

[rer]

How long before people catch on and start growong thier own tobacco?

To tell you the truth it is already growing. 1 giant bush of Nicotiana Rustica. Its leafs can contain up to 9% nicotine when common tobacco is 1 to 3 %. still working on drying b/c first smoke was a bit harsh:licking:. I also have to be careful not to smoke too much or it makes you see things from too much nicotine:thumbdown:. next time I will grow another strain.

Here in Texas it grows big all year, but it smells like a semi that has had 2,000,000 heavily smoked miles

 

[RobertBrown]

To tell you the truth it is already growing. 1 giant bush of Nicotiana Rustica. Its leafs can contain up to 9% nicotine when common tobacco is 1 to 3 %. still working on drying b/c first smoke was a bit harsh:licking:. I also have to be careful not to smoke too much or it makes you see things from too much nicotine:thumbdown:. next time I will grow another strain.

Here in Texas it grows big all year, but it smells like a semi that has had 2,000,000 heavily smoked miles

I think that's great, very resourceful on your part. I don't smoke and I'm not suggesting that smoking is a good thing. If you have a nictine addiction you may as well take control of the implications. I would be interested in knowing what the results of your work will turn out to be.
Tobacco is one of the oldest vices we have as a civilization, it can't be too hard to figure out why. Soon you may have the best homegrown tobacco around, if for no other reason than no one else is growing it. Your research and developemet will no doubt become quit valuable in the near future. Just remember that there is a huge liability attached.

 

[mystreba]

Tobacco is one of the oldest vices we have as a civilization, it can't be too hard to figure out why.

The U.S. was literally built on tobacco - it was our first cash crop. When I drive around Southern Maryland I love to see the tobacco curing in the barns.

 

[KennyV]

The U.S. was literally built on tobacco -...

Without a doubt... We do have a sordid past...

 

[twall]

Without a doubt... We do have a sordid past...

What's with this? "Sordid"? "Vices"? Overeating and becoming so sloppy and huge you can't even occupy just one seat on an airplane is a 'vice', too.....but I don't see these people being sanctemoniously crucified at every turn, on everyone's lips.......BAH! We also built this country on slavery. Now that's something to hang your head in shame about.

 

[mystreba]

Tonight I took the older kids out for dinner at a local tap house. Before dinner we had a Bear Republic Ryevalry - very tasty. With dinner we had a Victory Golden Monkey - excellent. Both on draft.

After I got home I went out to the shop and fiddled with the string trimmer. Had a Brewer's Art Resurrection Ale - in a CAN (cans are making a comeback!)

ok, writing this it sounds like a lot, but the tap house selections were tulip glasses :tongue:.

Anyway, in the shop I fired up a Liga Privada T52 (Nicaragua). If I had a roach clip I'd have used it :wink: