rkwilker
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Black Partagas Pirimide.....with the required Blanton's/rocks.
Mr. Paladin said:Camacho 1962 belicoso for me last night; down to the nub!
jamespowers said:I wonder if what I am hearing to be true. Will the embargo be lifted within the next year or so? [huh]
Kermez said:Arturo Fuente Añejo Reserva Xtra Viejo No. 49
Mr. Paladin said:Lew Rothman and others seem to think so but I don't know. Even if it is, the Cubans have trouble providing the rest of the world with quality cigars now so I'm afraid the prices here will be astronomical, even compared to those in the CdelH shops in the Carrribean and in London. Add the probable $1-$3 Obama/Dem S-Chip tax to that and it might be cheaper to smoke a Ferrari. Some of the folks here can probably afford them but my hope is that the prices of the currently legal premiums will drop when the Cubans become legal. Maybe that will somewhat offset the S-Chip garbage and make those smokes more affordable.
Last night I enjoyed an ITC 1th Anniversary in the lull. Very nice.
RedPop4 said:It's been a mite too chilly here, lately. I haven't had a cigar since last week, and I don't know what they were. Two identical cigars for a Cigar WeeklyBlind Review for 2009 #1
RedPop4 said:
SCHIP has to go to the Senate, now, but the House topped it out at $.40 per cigar. It could have been much worse. In the real world, this will likely raise prices by at least a dollar. Thankfully, they scrapped their floor tax on inventory which would have gutted the retail end of the tobacco business.
Over at Cigar Weekly we have a few stories in CW News. The rep. from the 4th district of Michigan gave a nice speech against the tax. I also have in the same posting, the list of how the House voted.
I'm not happy about it, and the problem with compromise on this issue is that now that there IS compromise, they'll come back again for more.
jamespowers said:Geez, what did the newly formed tobacco/cigar rights group formed by the manufacturers do wrong?
CigarMan said:My understanding is, that with some changes in administration, the people at the top of the chain that represented us are no longer in office. So basically, we (the tobacco industry) are having to start all over again from scratch. Don't know the full details or names, but all our hard work has been swept out. So here we go again. . . .
CigarMan said:mmmm, you've got quite the selection of Opus and Anejos . . .