Buying pipes VS Buying tobacco

[iamn8]

Zekest, good for you for saying neigh!! Great word!

 

[pylorns]

Right now with all this regulation looming, the days are numbered on tobacco... buy now... stock pile then worry about pipes.

 

[cigrmaster]

I can never buy pipe tobacco as cheap as it is now and that is what I focused on right now. Pipe tobacco is only going to go up so I choose to go for tobacco. My main concern is how manny blends are going to go the way of the dodo.

 

[saltedplug]

I think whether to buy pipes and less tobacco or the reverse is a question with which most pipesmokers struggle. Most decide to buy both . Well, maybe not. As has been said repeatedly, the tax man cometh. You can always buy pipes.
The lowly cob is really a prince. The universal image of the pipe is not a cob but a briar. I didn't even consider them for anything other than 1792 for a long time, and it was only after becoming dismayed by how much the briars I had bought that I gave them a far try. Now I really like smoking both and recently paid $116.00 for 10 Mark Twain models that have a chamber equivalent to a small group 4, the average size pipe. Cobs have regarded as throwaway pipes but the truth is that if handled with the appropriate care, they last, certainly not the for a lifetime like briar, but for years, surprising you with their resiliency.
So if tobacco is your choice, cobs are a natural choice for that duration.

 

[pipesmokingtom]

Pipe tobacco is only going to go up so I choose to go for tobacco. My main concern is how manny blends are going to go the way of the dodo.

What do we think the chances are that "smoking implements" will see similar taxation? Are they going to be satisfied taxing just the fuel or is there talk of taxing related items?
Should I go buy a couple hundred cobs right now, I guess is my question.