Perhaps when there is no more tobacco I will convert to pot. 
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Why not both?Perhaps when there is no more tobacco I will convert to pot.
When I speak of money - power I speak of corporations such as Nestle with profits such as 90 million/year in the last years, so profitable that the CEO Ulf Schneider pulls in 10 million/year as his due recompense, which at $37,000/day is more than twice my yearly income. This is a lot of money and a lot of power, enough to buy a government or perhaps just the Senate.
But tobacco is profitable on an entirely different scale. In 2015, the most recent year for which figures are available, the world’s six largest cigarette manufacturers made a profit of more than USD 62 billion, enough to buy governments or perhaps the Congress.
"Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority: still more when you superadd the tendency or the certainty of corruption by authority. There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it." Lord Acton
But tobacco is profitable on an entirely different scale. In 2015, the most recent year for which figures are available, the world’s six largest cigarette manufacturers made a profit of more than USD 62 billion, enough to buy governments or perhaps the Congress.
"Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority: still more when you superadd the tendency or the certainty of corruption by authority. There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it." Lord Acton
Perhaps when there is no more tobacco I will convert to pot.
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I have read the posts here and all I can say is thank God I don't have long to go .
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I'm glad my family isn't long lived as I don't recognize the world anymore.I have read the posts here and all I can say is thank God I don't have long to go
It seems as if the tax man gets there long before market prices. It's taxes that give us the $120 carton of cigarettes or the $50 tin of pipe tobacco. Combine that with all kinds of prohibitions on what kind of pipe blends can be sold, and you have a shrunken market with steep prices. At a bowl a day, and with a accumulated stash -- though nothing like some -- I'm not in a panic. I could get to be one of these two bowls a week smokers, or bowl a week smokers, or special holiday smokers. What other simple pleasures can be made expensive and inconvenient? And for what reasons?
The older I become, the more pro-Thanos I get. 
I wholeheartedly agree. I’m far more concerned about the prohibition of the online marketplace (primarily through laws in the various states [see Washington]) far more than I am about an increase in prices.
I have completed my major buying, and have a cellar that should last me the rest of my days. I don’t smoke very much, so it wasn’t that hard to do. I’m sure the total weight of my cellar would make some of the chimneys here laugh pretty hard. After more than a year of working from home with the ability to smoke whenever I want without materially increasing my smoking rate , I’m confident that eventual retirement won’t result in any changes there. I still buy a few tins here and there, but nothing like I used to.
I don’t equate stocking up a personal supply with hoarding. I’ve never bought more that what I wanted for myself, and I don’t own a gram of tobacco I bought with speculative intent for eventual sale on the secondary market.
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Exactly. Cellaring is buying for future use and hoarding is buying just to be buying. My purchases weren't bought for future sell either.
I worked it into my monthly budget.
Mortgage $700
Electricity $100
Gas $100
Tobacco $350
Foof $150
Etc…
I was spending that much on cigarettes, so when I quit and started the pipe, I just used the same funds. I don’t buy ANYTHING without a budget. My wife forewarns me weeks ahead of time, so I can get any upcoming expenses on paper. Not that I don’t spend money, but I just don’t want to spend money I don’t have.
The logic is simple assuming you agree that most tobacco improves with age. Stock your cellar to the size you can afford both in money and space. If tobacco goes up in price and/or becomes extinct, you made a great move. If the prices only increses modestly and its plentiful in ten to twenty years, you're smoking nicely aged tobacco all the time. Nobody has a crystal ball but the former seems much more likely. Regardless, I'm missing any downside to building your cellar if you're serious about smoking a pipe.
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