Captain black 22.50 for 14 ounces??
RFouch1698
get. whats up with that??
Robert
Dave Nester
Dave
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ADMESQ
about $16 as opposed to $22 in Florida for that tin.
Probably taxes---by the way, the top price I ever saw for Captain Black was
$45, in London (L22.50), so you are paying import prices!
>Subject: Re: Captain black 22.50 for 14 ounces??
J.M.
Colonel Panic
> Is 14 oz the larger size can?
> Walgreens in CA gets 38.00 for a can.
> Thank goodness i can get it at the BX for 18.00. Tobacco in CA is expensive.
Here in Portland, OR I just saw Capt. Black (all varieties) for $4.79 for a 1.5
oz pouch. Yikes! That's about what I pay for Penzance and other Esotericas in
bulk!
Reg'ds,
Terry
DavidIsham
Walgreens in CA gets 38.00 for a can.
Thank goodness i can get it at the BX for 18.00. Tobacco in CA is expensive.
Godspeed.
David
Magnulus
>Is 14 oz the larger size can?
>Walgreens in CA gets 38.00 for a can.
>Thank goodness i can get it at the BX for 18.00. Tobacco in CA is expensive.
The price is no doubt due to CA's excessive tax on all tobacco products.
ADMESQ
THIRTY EIGHT DOLLARS for a tin of Captain Black????? I'd rather smoke last
week's TIME magazine!
CEASE THIS INSANITY! Why don't you Californians out there turn the screws on
your State legislators?
Obviously, The Golden State has his country's most repressive anti-smoking laws
and maddening taxes, but handing over two Andy Jacksons for the Budweiser of
pipe tobaccos is crazy.
You CAN change the law.
Just two questions:
1. What do you pay for specialty tobaccos?
2. How long do you think the Gold Rush would have lasted if they'd had to put
up with this kind of nonsense? <G>
J.M.
Don M.
>Friends:
>
>THIRTY EIGHT DOLLARS for a tin of Captain Black????? I'd rather smoke last
>week's TIME magazine!
>
>CEASE THIS INSANITY! Why don't you Californians out there turn the screws on
>your State legislators?
>
>Obviously, The Golden State has his country's most repressive anti-smoking laws
>and maddening taxes, but handing over two Andy Jacksons for the Budweiser of
>pipe tobaccos is crazy.
The last time I looked, only 25% of Californians smoke cigarettes. And
a much lower percentage are pipe smokers. Yet the strict anti-tobacco
bill passed with a narrow margin.
I've written letters to my legislator and he staunchly supports the
tobacco tax increase. It seems we are once again out gunned.
Don >---
richard bies
One has to watch this kind of stuff -- lying with figures, even if the
figures themselves are fairly accurate -- what is relevant is the
percentage of registered voters, or at least the population over 18. If
all the smokers had gotten off their duff, I'll wager the measure would
not have passed. And if the voters had been sensitive to the inclination
to remove freedom (had the smarts to realize that inviting Big Brother to
"solve" one favorite social "problem" by infringing freedom, elects
statists), the legislature could have been counted-on to counter, in any
event. The Repulik of Kalifornia has been created by the voters, as was
also the presupposition in Amerika.
r.m.bies
ADMESQ
>also the presupposition in Amerika.
So it's time to overthrow the "K" republics and get back to basics...
We as American citizens CAN do this. Just TELL YOUR CONGRESSPEOPLE TO STOP
PLAYING GOD. The fear of our Founders, and those thoughful ones who came
after, was that America would devolve into "Amerika", a paternalistic bastion
of "friendly fascism."
Well, folks, here we are. I resent any attempt of the government to protect me
from myself. Do I need them to tell me what I am looking at is "pornography"?
No, I can figure that out, and figure out whether or not I want to look at it
by myself. Do I want the government to tell my wife she can't have ultimate
control over her own body? No more so than if the government banned liquor
because they were worried about my liver. Do I think people should wear
helmets on motorcycles? Yes. Not wearing a helmet is a little crazy. Do I
think there has to be a LAW MANDATING IT? No! Do I need a trigger lock on my
gun? Well, maybe, but only if I have a very young or incredibly irresponsible
person in my house (it's my business to make sure I don't have the second).
Do I think it is courteous not to blow smoke over other people's food in
restaurants? Yes. Do I think we should be subject to misdemeanor sanctions
for doing that? No!
A little courtesy would go a long way, and would get the government out of the
business of regulating interpersonal relationships. Actually, not so much the
government, as much as the insurance underwriters who are the real policy
makers in Ameri"k"a.
This country doesn't need antismoking laws, or for that matter thousands of
other laws on the books. It needs to relearn the words, "Please", "thank you"
and "Excuse me."
I remember Martin Luther King Jr. posing the question: "Where do we go from
here? Chaos or community?" Well, only WE can create community. Legislators,
in their ivory tower offices don't know anything about chaos except how to
ignore it or slap a band-aid on it for CNN consumption.
Let's remember we live in AmeriCa.
Enough is enough!
J.M.
James McKellips
who moved to Virginia. I have never looked back. Have been back a few
times, but that just reinforced my move. It is much more than just
tobacco laws and taxes. Crime and taxes in general, were my major
concerns. I am really glad to be an adopted Virginian!
Jim in Lynchburg
richard bies wrote:
>
> One has to watch this kind of stuff -- lying with figures, even if the
> figures themselves are fairly accurate -- what is relevant is the
> percentage of registered voters, or at least the population over 18. If
> all the smokers had gotten off their duff, I'll wager the measure would
> not have passed. And if the voters had been sensitive to the inclination
> to remove freedom (had the smarts to realize that inviting Big Brother to
> "solve" one favorite social "problem" by infringing freedom, elects
> statists), the legislature could have been counted-on to counter, in any
> event. The Repulik of Kalifornia has been created by the voters, as was
> also the presupposition in Amerika.
>
> r.m.bies