Please stop all restrictions on cigars. This is a cultural and practice of spirituality for mature minded people. It is a craft that is enjoyed by people who appreciate the deep roots of tobacco in the native culture. It is not the same as cigarette and should not be classed as such.
Please let us send the government a request to reduce the huge tax on cigars. We are getting the cigars from the States as personal allowance (50 cigars per person), and all the benefits from this purchase go to the American government and U.S. retailer owners and nothing to the Canadian government. We should encourage and support our country and retailer owners by importing directly from Cuba, Dominican Republic and Nicaragua with minimum tax (similar or even less than the States), so you can imagine the savings and amount of money that goes to the Canadian government instead of the States, which may bring the US citizen to purchase from here instead of USA. This will help open cigar lounges as well.
Not allowing dedicated public or membership based cigar lounges is beyond any reasonable understanding. There are cigar lounges all over the world and I visited dozens of them. They are unbelievably well ventilated with powerful ERVs, and in most of them one can’t even tell upon entry that cigars are being smoked. If a place is labeled and marketed as a cigar lounge, it is very obvious that only cigar smokers will enter them. The HVAC technology is moving forward at a neck breaking pace, yet our regulations are getting tighter and tighter, and the excuse of employees exposure to smoke is sounding redicolous and rather pointless. Just as pointless as the flat brown labeling of cigars and cigar boxes. I have absolutely never walked into a cigar shop full of underaged kids in my 35 years of cigar smoking. A result of all this is, as another cigar lover already pointed out, that we are purchasing our cigars in the US and bringing them to Canada under the 50 cigar duty exemption law, leaving our tax dollars in the US. Jow is that working for Canada?
Please stop all restrictions on cigars. This is a cultural and practice of spirituality for mature minded people. It is a craft that is enjoyed by people who appreciate the deep roots of tobacco in the native culture. It is not the same as cigarette and should not be classed as such.
Please let us send the government a request to reduce the huge tax on cigars. We are getting the cigars from the States as personal allowance (50 cigars per person), and all the benefits from this purchase go to the American government and U.S. retailer owners and nothing to the Canadian government. We should encourage and support our country and retailer owners by importing directly from Cuba, Dominican Republic and Nicaragua with minimum tax (similar or even less than the States), so you can imagine the savings and amount of money that goes to the Canadian government instead of the States, which may bring the US citizen to purchase from here instead of USA. This will help open cigar lounges as well.
Please allow adults to make their own choices and have dedicated spaces for them to enjoy their hobbies. Thank you kindly.
Let’s have the freedom to smoke indoors
We need change
We should be free to smoke cigars when we want where we want. Stop with the plain packaging.
Not allowing dedicated public or membership based cigar lounges is beyond any reasonable understanding. There are cigar lounges all over the world and I visited dozens of them. They are unbelievably well ventilated with powerful ERVs, and in most of them one can’t even tell upon entry that cigars are being smoked. If a place is labeled and marketed as a cigar lounge, it is very obvious that only cigar smokers will enter them. The HVAC technology is moving forward at a neck breaking pace, yet our regulations are getting tighter and tighter, and the excuse of employees exposure to smoke is sounding redicolous and rather pointless. Just as pointless as the flat brown labeling of cigars and cigar boxes. I have absolutely never walked into a cigar shop full of underaged kids in my 35 years of cigar smoking. A result of all this is, as another cigar lover already pointed out, that we are purchasing our cigars in the US and bringing them to Canada under the 50 cigar duty exemption law, leaving our tax dollars in the US. Jow is that working for Canada?