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The Cost of Pipe Tobacco and Cigars
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<blockquote data-quote="alfredo_buscatti" data-source="post: 347855" data-attributes="member: 36"><p>There's a fine documentary, about hour-long, on Cuban cigars. It looks old, but it was educative to the extent that I finally got an idea of why cigars are so expensive. In a word, the tobacco cultivation, even before curing/storing/aging, takes a lot of work. In an acre field there might be 50 workers pruning, harvesting leaves, hoeing and weeding in any one of these phases. Then if they have to put cheesecloth over the plants, that's another step. So from planting seed to the cigar to be sold, there may be 50? steps.</p><p></p><p>I don't know this for a fact but pipe tobacco must require a similar amount of care. The only thing different is that it doesn't have to be rolled.</p><p></p><p>I must be missing something as the cost is so different. I know that cigars have more of a markup, but from what I've been told it's not that much more, maybe 15%.</p><p></p><p>Can you explain this?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="alfredo_buscatti, post: 347855, member: 36"] There's a fine documentary, about hour-long, on Cuban cigars. It looks old, but it was educative to the extent that I finally got an idea of why cigars are so expensive. In a word, the tobacco cultivation, even before curing/storing/aging, takes a lot of work. In an acre field there might be 50 workers pruning, harvesting leaves, hoeing and weeding in any one of these phases. Then if they have to put cheesecloth over the plants, that's another step. So from planting seed to the cigar to be sold, there may be 50? steps. I don't know this for a fact but pipe tobacco must require a similar amount of care. The only thing different is that it doesn't have to be rolled. I must be missing something as the cost is so different. I know that cigars have more of a markup, but from what I've been told it's not that much more, maybe 15%. Can you explain this? [/QUOTE]
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