Tax increase for RYO has practically killed this type of tobacco and shifted the industry towards less rigorously taxed alternative labeled as pipe tobacco.
The bill means that value pipe tobacco era may be coming to an end within a year or maybe even sooner.
What should people do after this happens?
Filtered cigars are a another category of products remains relatively inexpensive... for now. Our rough estimates show that with current pipe tobacco prices the cost of supplies needed to roll your own carton (200 cigarettes) is just $2-$3 lower than an inexpensive carton of filtered cigars:
http://www.tobaccogeneral.com/filtered-and-little-cigars-56-ctg.htm
Once pipe tobacco tax increases, filtered cigars will become the cheapest option of all.
Luckily, most of pipe tobacco manufacturers offer similarly branded filtered cigars. To be honest with you, I don't know if smoking experience remains the same, but it's worth trying a filtered cigar considering that a carton of cigarettes is 5 times more expensive.
A better direction for future planning as far as serving the RYO/MYO community would be to look at whole leaf. If "little cigars" were an option for most of us, we wouldn't be going through the trouble of making our own in the first place. The next logical step for us would be to buy various types of whole leaf tobacco, shred it, and blend it to achieve what we want and continue stuffing/rolling our own.
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Thanks for the info DougE, is an alternative worth looking into for sure.
DeleteI have switched from rolling cigarettes at a dollar per pack to smoking tiny filtered cigars at $7.49 per carton. I couldn't be happier. I'm just hoping that they don't impose any big new taxes on these things. Anybody know anything about pending tax scenarios that may cause that to happen?
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