Cheap Tobacco is Better Than It Should Be
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Somewhere around here I have a package of Golden Harvest (little) filtered cigars that sell for under $15 a carton all taxes paid.
How the heck can Fred Rouse do that?
First, Fred is the eighth generation of tobacco warehousemen in Kinston North Carolina and he’s a whole bunch good, at buying and selling tobacco products, yes he surely is.
Fred’s ancestors there might have sold tobacco to the Redcoats in 1780 and the Yankees in 1865.
Fred pays $2 a pound for raw leaf and ages it in one of his warehouses until it’s good to smoke.
Fred will put a shade over three pounds per thousand cigars in his machines. At 6.10 per thousand Fred has about $1.25 worth of tobacco per carton in his cigars. Fred buys the tubes from them there Europeans ready made for maybe another $1.75 a carton.
North Carolina is no longer an Arkansas poor state. Let’s say Fred pays his help and for overhead a dollar a carton. He’s up to $4 his cost per carton.
Being a good capitalist Fred doubles his money, sells those little cigars to retailers for $8 a carton.
If they were labeled cigarretes the federal tax would be $8 plus whatever the state taxes were.
But since they are large cigars (take that tax collectors) the taxes are $4, one half the wholesale price) plus in Missouri an additional 40 cents as any other product than cigarretes. $12.40 cost to the shop.
The shop marks them up a dollar or two and out the door they go.
Fred’s cigars are tightly packed, hard to draw, and there’s a whiff of cigarish taste from the wrappers.
And they cost about twice as much than if you took Fred’s Buoy Gold, aged it six more months at home, then stuffed Fred’s imported tubes with a Chinese tax beating machine that will churn out $7.50 taxes paid cigarettes at two pounds or so per thousand all day long.
How the heck can Fred Rouse do that?
First, Fred is the eighth generation of tobacco warehousemen in Kinston North Carolina and he’s a whole bunch good, at buying and selling tobacco products, yes he surely is.
Fred’s ancestors there might have sold tobacco to the Redcoats in 1780 and the Yankees in 1865.
Fred pays $2 a pound for raw leaf and ages it in one of his warehouses until it’s good to smoke.
Fred will put a shade over three pounds per thousand cigars in his machines. At 6.10 per thousand Fred has about $1.25 worth of tobacco per carton in his cigars. Fred buys the tubes from them there Europeans ready made for maybe another $1.75 a carton.
North Carolina is no longer an Arkansas poor state. Let’s say Fred pays his help and for overhead a dollar a carton. He’s up to $4 his cost per carton.
Being a good capitalist Fred doubles his money, sells those little cigars to retailers for $8 a carton.
If they were labeled cigarretes the federal tax would be $8 plus whatever the state taxes were.
But since they are large cigars (take that tax collectors) the taxes are $4, one half the wholesale price) plus in Missouri an additional 40 cents as any other product than cigarretes. $12.40 cost to the shop.
The shop marks them up a dollar or two and out the door they go.
Fred’s cigars are tightly packed, hard to draw, and there’s a whiff of cigarish taste from the wrappers.
And they cost about twice as much than if you took Fred’s Buoy Gold, aged it six more months at home, then stuffed Fred’s imported tubes with a Chinese tax beating machine that will churn out $7.50 taxes paid cigarettes at two pounds or so per thousand all day long.
My favorites were the Dean's filtered cigars. They had an awesome cherry flavor. Unfortunately I didn't stock that deep and they seemed to stop production for a year or so and now are part of a different brand's portfolio and they only sell half the original flavors.
Used to be owned by Dean Rouse. Also the brand owner of Farmer's Gold RYO/Pipe baccy. I wonder if he was a relative. Too bad he sold out. Private Equity is going to destroy us as a species...
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Used to be owned by Dean Rouse. Also the brand owner of Farmer's Gold RYO/Pipe baccy. I wonder if he was a relative. Too bad he sold out. Private Equity is going to destroy us as a species...
Deans Flavored Filtered Cigars
Deans Flavored Cigars come in seven exciting cigar flavors, plus Mild & Full Body cigar blends. Dean's cigars are for those looing for flavor in a value priced cigar.
My favorites were the Dean's filtered cigars. They had an awesome cherry flavor. Unfortunately I didn't stock that deep and they seemed to stop production for a year or so and now are part of a different brand's portfolio and they only sell half the original flavors.
Used to be owned by Dean Rouse. Also the brand owner of Farmer's Gold RYO/Pipe baccy. I wonder if he was a relative. Too bad he sold out. Private Equity is going to destroy us as a species...
Deans Flavored Filtered Cigars
Deans Flavored Cigars come in seven exciting cigar flavors, plus Mild & Full Body cigar blends. Dean's cigars are for those looing for flavor in a value priced cigar.
For the four decades I owned and operated my office I’d go back to the supply shelves with every new assistant.
I’d say my internship in law school was with a wonderful man who had his assistants inventory and account for every pen, every paper clip, every folder, and every ream of paper. I asked why and he said his assistants would be tempted to steal them.
Here’s my plan—-help your self.
But would you please make sure everything that can have my name on it, has it?
And please don’t ever let me run out of ammunition.
Rouse (surname) - Wikipedia
The descendants of the Rosy Cross are mighty hard to kill, you know?.
There's nothing pretentious about smoking what you like. I paid less than $15 per tin for the vast majority of tobacco I smoke. You have to be a special kind of stupid to take my post and twist it to what you posted.
Yeah at about 20 bowls per tin... If the tin cost $30, that would be like smoking a $1.50 cigar.
I want everything to be cheaper, and I hate spending money... But pipe tobacco in general is the unpretentious option.
I want everything to be cheaper, and I hate spending money... But pipe tobacco in general is the unpretentious option.
He's a troll and a cunt, plain and simple.
I knew my glasses were highly reflective, but i didnt think they passed as mirrors. But thanks for settling that non concern for me. So please step back and relax.