Cigar prices

Opus X

Opus X

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Man, cigar prices have gotten out of hand over the past couple of years.
I realize that taxes have a lot to do with that but also the same issue that is in one of my other happy places, bourbons - or actually all whiskey.
The increase isn't all from taxes. It's from a higher demand and the companies seeing that they can make more money because people will pay what they ask. In the bourbon area I have seen this starting to moderate as people aren't paying high prices for bourbons and finding more reasonably priced ones to drink.
I think the same thing might start happening with cigars.
 
Tobacco overall has risen in price. I think the government here in the US finally realized that folks were buying pipe tobacco and making home rolled cigarettes out of it and decided to increase the taxes on it also.
I know that a few years ago a lot of discussion on the fact that cigars like Swisher Sweets (if you can really call them cigars) were going to increase, but the hand rolled stuff was going to be somewhat safe.
All I know is that I was used to buying Perdomos for around $3-$5 a stick at the most and now they are getting up around $10.
 
Yes, they are pricing the little man out of what they refer to as the nasty habit.
I know that my Mom's insurance coverage has a policy exception that if you are a tobacco user and you don't pay the surcharge for being a tobacco user they refuse to cover any medical issues that might be related to it - like cancer.
I really don't see how they can do that. I know people that are nonsmokers but their parents were heavy smokers and they grew up with over 1/2 their life spent in a smoking environment that they had no choice about.
 
Yes, that could be an issue. I know with the States insurance for their employees and retirees is the same way. We asked my wife's insurance rep for the department she worked for how they could figure out who smoked and who grew up in a smoking household with heavy smokers when it came to cancers and they could not give an adequate answer.

I have no problems with paying a surcharge for "risky behavior" aspects of life, but if they are going to do it then they need to look at a lot more than just smoking. You drink alcohol? Surcharge
You have a lot of speeding tickets/reckless driving charges? Surcharge

Where does it stop?
 
Tracy said:
Where does it stop?
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That is an important question.
Why does an alcoholic not have to pay extra surcharge when it is also well known that alcohol is toxic for the human body?
What makes it any different than having a cigar or a pipe every now and then?
 
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