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Re: What is in your pipe?
@Amos_Umwhat said:
Put some of the 1792 I recently acquired in the Il Duca Rhodesian, 2 days ago. Finally finished it. Wow! That stuff is powerful! I may end up just adding a touch of it into things that are not so strong.
I love to do that with Virginia's but my favorite it to add a little to ODF for a bit of vanilla richness. I know, already a bold blend but, hey, I do prefer chocolate over lemon.
Hawks
Re: Breaking Cigar News
@Rdp77 said:
I think it’s a little different. They try to tax and charge for this and that and regulate every business there. It’s not just tobacco. They want the extra revenue from the new regulations. The government officials are too arrogant to think someone would actually stop doing business with the mighty California.
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Can’t convince me. Requirements are too egregious. There is too much evidence requirements like these and overly aggressive taxation just end up reducing revenue. Judicious taxation and a positive business environment increase revenue. This is just another method to drive tobacco out of the state cloaked as a public safety/ tax gain regulation.
MA applied a 20% tax on top of the sales tax to all tobacco. Also outlawed flavored tobacco to protect the children and minorities (menthol was apparently targeted to minorities). Can’t get flavored pipe tobacco anymore due to the number of children that would be smoking pipes. You should see the lines of MA license plates at the stores just over the NH line to buy cigarettes now. MA can do the math to see the revenue they are losing. They don’t care as its not a tax issue, its really an anti-tobacco law.
Re: Breaking Cigar News
@Usaf06 said:
More companies should do the same and stand up to the corrupt California establishment.
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Unfortunately I believe that would be exactly what the State is really looking for. They really just want to make it so painful to do business in their state that all the evil tobacco will just go away.
Massachusetts seems to be heading in the same direction. All in the guise of public health.
Re: Political Discussions
Bill O'Reilly claims Putin and Trump are driving global rise of evil
In his new book, "Confronting Evil," political commentator Bill O'Reilly examines what it means to be an "evil" person by delving into the lives of more than a dozen infamous historical figures. O'Reilly joins "The Takeout" to discuss.
Sept 15, 2025
Re: The useless information thread
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The number of people aged over 100 in Japan, according to government estimates. Japan has set new records every year for the last 55 years for the number centenarians in the country. The oldest woman is 114, while the oldest man is 111 — 88% of the centenarians are female. Japan has low obesity rates and high levels of activity in later life, the BBC reported, which are likely contributing factors. Although another contributing factor may be that some of the hundred-not-out cohort have in fact been dead for some time. In 2010 researchers found that “Tokyo’s oldest man” had been dead for 32 of his reported 111 years and was lying mummified in bed while his family collected his pension.
Re: What did you get today?
Forgot to bring in more cigars for work. Had to run across the street to the liquor store.
ShawnOL
Re: Whatcha smokin this morning?
Scrap-filler bundle cigar from Camacho. Tastes good but the occasional bits of tobacco in my mouth will keep me from buying again. You get what you pay for.
ShawnOL
Re: Unbanded Cigar Contest: Robustos
Yes, I am giving a one week sign up for this competition, it seems like most people seem to figure it out pretty quickly. You don't really even have send the cigars until after then as well... its just signing up. After the sign up period ends, I send a message about address info and such.
