STG update from your good friend Bradley

[Brendan]

Not in the UK and places in Europe. Cigarettes and hand rolling tobacco is taxed far more highly than pipe tobacco and the UK government sets what the cut is for RYO versus pipe. Snuff has no duty on it currently.

Well, I'm glad to be wrong in this case.
I'm a little jealous actually..
Hopefully they don't catch on to what happens down here - AUS and NZ - anytime soon.

 

[gawithhoggarth]

Unfortunately our current government does seem keen to follow the NZ example (before it was repealled I believe on age limit going up each year to buy) .

Differentiation made mostly for tax. They tend to lump pipe tobacco in with everything else with regards to regulations but usually introduce it first for cigarettes and hand rolling and then later for pipe tobacco - this is what they have done for track and trace regulations for example.

 

[HeavyLeadBelly]

There is a learning curve to a pipe. Most smokers wont bother. Its especially difficult since they mostly begin with goopy blends that burn and bite when you dont know what you are doing.

Yup. That was my problem for years. I always say I’ve been smoking a pipe on and off for close to twenty years and only seriously in the past four. Why? Because I didn’t have the ambition back then to find resources on how to smoke a pipe. Every time I’d try it was with some drug store aromatic that torched the hell out of my tongue. I think that’s probably going to be the typical newbie experience and some will persist while most will move on.