It's nowhere near as good as the Maya Import place, in fact both the Magazine St and Kenner locations are great shops.
Best Pipe Shop In Your Area
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I Just returned from LA last Friday and fear I must agree. I searched all over but mostly found vape shops.
Tobacco Trader, which is south toward Culver City has a modest selection of pipe tobaccos. There are a few places that have some bulks. Other than that, it's all cigars or vapes.
The Country Squire is about 3 hours from me. Spring Street Cigar in Tupelo and Oxford, MS are 35-45 miles from me. They have a decent selection of C&D and Peterson Tobacco as well as Peterson pipes.
Rich Lewis’ shop in Minneapolis. About the only real pipe shop in the area. Other shops mostly are cigars with a token presence of pipes and pipe tobacco.
Here in the Salt Lake City area the selection of tobacco shops is obviously limited. We have three that are noteworthy: Beehive Cigars, south of downtown, is probably the best for pipes and tobacco. Tinder Box in Murray is a nice store, but with a limited selection. Jeanie’s downtown near the Capitol has changed hands, but still has a decent selection of pipes and tobacco, but prices are fairly high. None have accommodations for smoking on the premises due to draconian state regulations. Utah law mandates no smoking in ANY building and you must be at least 25 feet from doorways and windows. Beehive used to have a spacious private lounge in the back of the store, but the state health department shut it down recently.
Frankly, we’re lucky to have any tobacco shops in the state at all. Tobacco tax is punitive at 86%. A 50 gram tin averages around $20 or more and about $4 an ounce for bulk.
If it was completely up to the LDS controlled state legislature, we’d have no tobacco shops whatsoever. The only reason we have wine and liquor here is that it’s sold in state owned stores and, of course, the state profits handsomely.
Utah is a scenically beautiful state, but the tobacco scene is is a veritable desert.
Frankly, we’re lucky to have any tobacco shops in the state at all. Tobacco tax is punitive at 86%. A 50 gram tin averages around $20 or more and about $4 an ounce for bulk.
If it was completely up to the LDS controlled state legislature, we’d have no tobacco shops whatsoever. The only reason we have wine and liquor here is that it’s sold in state owned stores and, of course, the state profits handsomely.
Utah is a scenically beautiful state, but the tobacco scene is is a veritable desert.
We have Smoky's Tobacco and Gifts in Knoxville, close to the West Town Mall, and in Gatlinburg we have the Gatlinburlier. Smoky's has a really good selection of house blends, some of which they blend themselves. Plus their tin and pipe selection aint half bad. They threw a pipe show there last fall, 20% off, I bought a couple pipes.
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