The five cheapest states in this ranking are all in the South, where low excise taxes cluster together and cross-border shopping is unnecessary
While most of the time its someone who owns a cigar shop that starts their own brand, there are cases when former retailers start a brand, like Skip Martin of RoMa Craft Tobac, or when employees of cigar stores go on to start their own brand, see Pete Johnson of Tatuaje
Either way, were not a cigar museum, so we seal up the overflow in our beloved Bags O 50 and slap a sub-wholesale discount on the lot before they hit the conveyor belt
And remember to rinse the cloth on and off
A 1985 report from the Reynolds flavor laboratory makes it clear that taste-testing was not simply about finding flavors that consumers liked, but about developing tastes and products with an addictive quality