I lived in Canada until almost three years ago, and on a recent visit to British Columbia I checked out 'Old Morris' - a lovely tobacconist in Victoria on Vancouver Island. I didn't smoke a pipe when I lived there so I didn't really know the cost.
I sniffed a number of loose blends and settled on 1 aromatic -'Saratoga' and an English 'Pub' I liked the look of a nice Savinelli pipe too. The pipe came in at around C$200 (since looking in the UK the pipe is about £50!! ) I didn't buy it...
He said the Provincial law meant the smallest size of sale was 50grams per tobacco (I really only wanted a smaller amount of each as I don't smoke that often) My girlfriend then offered to pay and the price was over C$100!!! I immediately said to her I would choose one blend as it was too much! She insisted and bought both of them.
a) I am a lucky guy - not many girlfriends would spend $100 on their man's pipe tobacco for no reason!
b) What's with the minimum amount?
c) what's with the high price - are taxes really that bad? I looked on line and 24¢per gram is the tax so $50+ seems a lot. (UK is about 11p per gram but most 50 g tobaccos are about £13.. even with a weak C$ that is almost twice the price...
I sniffed a number of loose blends and settled on 1 aromatic -'Saratoga' and an English 'Pub' I liked the look of a nice Savinelli pipe too. The pipe came in at around C$200 (since looking in the UK the pipe is about £50!! ) I didn't buy it...
He said the Provincial law meant the smallest size of sale was 50grams per tobacco (I really only wanted a smaller amount of each as I don't smoke that often) My girlfriend then offered to pay and the price was over C$100!!! I immediately said to her I would choose one blend as it was too much! She insisted and bought both of them.
a) I am a lucky guy - not many girlfriends would spend $100 on their man's pipe tobacco for no reason!
b) What's with the minimum amount?
c) what's with the high price - are taxes really that bad? I looked on line and 24¢per gram is the tax so $50+ seems a lot. (UK is about 11p per gram but most 50 g tobaccos are about £13.. even with a weak C$ that is almost twice the price...