All things considered, $80 a pound for something you like isn't all that much. People on average are spending more than that. People buying tinned tobacco are paying that and much more. Say for example that you're buying 50gm tins at $9.99 at tin. You're paying about $99 a pound. That's the entry level, as most tobaccos online cost more than that. So people in the US pay anywhere from $90 to $140 a pound for tinned tobacco, and we're not talking about unicorns or unobtanium here.
BTW, that price from an online shop doesn't include sales and excise tax. Some are beginning to charge sales tax, and will leave you to pay the excise tax. Eventually all of them, if only to show compliance in the hope that their online sales won't be banned outright, will be charging excise tax, or reporting your purchases to your state, at which point you will get a nice letter, like a member here from Michigan received, requiring you to pay those pesky taxes, possibly with penalties.
That $80 a pound isn't looking so bad right now. And how many hours of pleasure will you get from that pound of tobacco? One pound equals 453.5 grams, roughly 100 bowls at about 45 minutes to an hour a bowl, so approximately 75 to 100 hours of pleasure for $80 or about 80¢ to a little over a buck an hour. Sounds dirt cheap!
A movie can cost $10 to $15 at a first run house for two hours. Add to that the cost of concessions and the price is more like $30. Go out to a fine restaurant and spend $35 to $200 per person for dinner that lasts maybe 90 minutes. That $80 pound isn't sounding so outrageous.
Americans have enjoyed exceptionally, almost abnormally, low tobacco costs compared with the rest of the world. That's changing. The government isn't subsidizing our habit any longer.