Smorgdonkey, I am on Vancouver Island just outside Nanaimo.
I am pretty sure Sidious is correct and it has something to do with potential invasive insects. Still if there was ever a place for an exception you would thing this would be it.
I'll have to pick up an OTT next time I am in the town! I took pictures of the wall of tobacco at the store so that I could choose at leisure what I might try next and oddly OTT is the one tin I am having trouble seeing in the pictures but there is one FM lost in the glare of the lights so I am hoping that is the one I am after. Hmm I just spotted McClelland's 2013 Christmas Cheer
that I seem to recall has wonderful reviews. These pictures might be dangerous. I have never tried a straight virginia but that one has me tempted.