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<blockquote data-quote="glpease" data-source="post: 133254" data-attributes="member: 18"><p>I was thinking about this too, recently, after looking at a 1940s Wally Frank catalogue. Pipe tobaccos then were pennies per ounce. </p><p></p><p>When I started smoking a pipe, about 1980, I was paying between $2.75 and $3.50 for 50g tins. Today, it's about quadruple that amount, and much of that increase is caused by the taxes that are levied at every point in the production and sale of the stuff. Which means, of course, that while the government is certainly getting more out of the deail, those in the industry, from the grower through the retailer, are making quite a bit less, when adjusted for inflation, than they/we were 30 years ago. Of course, being in the business, this "discovery" doesn't thrill me. </p><p></p><p>On the other hand, I can't think of too many things that have risen less in price over the last 30 years. In 1980, a loaf of bread was about 50¢.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="glpease, post: 133254, member: 18"] I was thinking about this too, recently, after looking at a 1940s Wally Frank catalogue. Pipe tobaccos then were pennies per ounce. When I started smoking a pipe, about 1980, I was paying between $2.75 and $3.50 for 50g tins. Today, it's about quadruple that amount, and much of that increase is caused by the taxes that are levied at every point in the production and sale of the stuff. Which means, of course, that while the government is certainly getting more out of the deail, those in the industry, from the grower through the retailer, are making quite a bit less, when adjusted for inflation, than they/we were 30 years ago. Of course, being in the business, this "discovery" doesn't thrill me. On the other hand, I can't think of too many things that have risen less in price over the last 30 years. In 1980, a loaf of bread was about 50¢. [/QUOTE]
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