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<blockquote data-quote="Kapnismologist" data-source="post: 44819" data-attributes="member: 487"><p>If indeed my math is correct:</p><p></p><p>Think of it this way, in the average US king size manufactured cigarette you are getting about .035 ounces of ‘tobacco’, only about 60% of which is actually leaf tobacco (the rest being filler such as homogenized sheet tobacco, puffed stem, chip, and so forth). Thus, you get about .021 ounces per cigarette, or about 4.2 ounces of leaf tobacco per carton. Assuming you are paying $50 per carton, that means you are paying about $11.90 per ounce, or $190 per pound.</p><p></p><p>Even if, say, you are spending $50 per pound of pipe tobacco, the difference is astronomical. Plus it has the added advantage of not being mixed with all those nasty fillers (not to mention all the other crap which is added, both in the mix and in the paper and filter elements).</p><p></p><p>RYO (or in this case, SYO) is a bit different, in that we are talking about 100% leaf tobacco (and some darn good ones such as Mark Ryan’s blends at D&R). Here, with SCHIP you will be paying about $40 per pound, which still beats by a long shot the federal excise tax increase on pre-packaged Big Tobacco cigarettes.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kapnismologist, post: 44819, member: 487"] If indeed my math is correct: Think of it this way, in the average US king size manufactured cigarette you are getting about .035 ounces of ‘tobacco’, only about 60% of which is actually leaf tobacco (the rest being filler such as homogenized sheet tobacco, puffed stem, chip, and so forth). Thus, you get about .021 ounces per cigarette, or about 4.2 ounces of leaf tobacco per carton. Assuming you are paying $50 per carton, that means you are paying about $11.90 per ounce, or $190 per pound. Even if, say, you are spending $50 per pound of pipe tobacco, the difference is astronomical. Plus it has the added advantage of not being mixed with all those nasty fillers (not to mention all the other crap which is added, both in the mix and in the paper and filter elements). RYO (or in this case, SYO) is a bit different, in that we are talking about 100% leaf tobacco (and some darn good ones such as Mark Ryan’s blends at D&R). Here, with SCHIP you will be paying about $40 per pound, which still beats by a long shot the federal excise tax increase on pre-packaged Big Tobacco cigarettes. [/QUOTE]
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