Esteli Nicaragua Cigar Video

Nice video of cigar production in Esteli, Nicaragua. Describes the negative impact of excessively high, regressive excise taxes on the cigar industry in Nicaragua.

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News & Politics

Tags:

• cigar
• roller
• nicaragua
• tax
• jobs
• economy

[Gooshkinheimer]

Hi, I'm an white/non-latin guy. I enjoy cigars. I have come to realize that they are, whether we like it or not, human beings too. I agree with you. it is a win-win situation. We enjoy the cigars, they enjoy a better life. Down with tobacco taxes.

[moproducer]

Theres nothing finer after a great meal than a hand-rolled Macanudo Churchill; I don't mind paying 10 bucks for one. Thomas Marshall, Vice President under Woodrow Wilson, is best remembered for saying, What this country needs is a good 5-cent cigar. Maybe it should be, "a good 5-cent cigar TAX".

Please give the money to the hardworking people who make these fine cigars, not our overspending government. Dios bendiga a todas las personas que hacen los puros en América Latina! Muchas Gracias!

[KyleACarmon]

@KripDrip In your ignorance you confuse cigars with cigarettes. Cigarettes are tiny tobacco scraps rolled in paper and mixed with chemicals, inhaled for a relaxing buzz, many times throughout a day, generally every day. Cigars, adversely, are aged natural tobacco hand rolled in other tobacco leaves, no chemicals, smoked rarely more often than 1 or 2 a day depending on size, they are not often inhaled, and most cigar smokers don't smoke daily. Not nearly the same thing.

[KyleACarmon]

@KripDrip ..Really? O.o.. It's some pretty basic high school Econ. The people in Nicaragua make the Cigars there, then sell them to people in america. An increase in tax would mean a decrease in sales, a decrease in sales would lead to a decrease in profit, a decrease in profit would mean a decrease in product, a decrease in product would lead to a decrease in employment, a decrease in employment would mean lots of latin workers would be left without a way to provide for their family.

[KripDrip]

I hate when people defend products that kill millions of people by using the jobs argument!

who cares that tobacco kills 5 million people a year, who cares about all the people dieing and getting lung cancer from 2nd hand smoke, who cares that big tobacco is targeting and marketing to kids, its creating JOBS!

[KripDrip]

what does this have to do with Nicaragua or jobs there? Were not raising the cigar tax in Nicaragua, where raising the cigar tax here. Cigars are still cheap in Nicaragua with little to no tax there so how is taxing cigars in America have anything to do with Nicaragua?

[JEFE1528]

UN ORGULLO ESTELI - NICARAGUA DONDE SE PREODUCE EL MEJOR PURO O TABACO DEL MUNDO..............

[clarkcolt45]

Cigars are not inhaled, not causing lung damage like cigarettes (Fact, look it up on the History Channel about cigars, can be found here on youtube), fermented tobacco, takes almost an hour to smoke. Not easy to abuse, more like a HOBBY of a handicraft exclusive piece of art, occasionally..

[Lousypenguin]

Cigar are like my cocaine. Always wanting more!

[soluscristus1]

I think many people in the USA would be surprised to find out how talented, intelligent and creative the people of Latin America are. We would be wise to shift more production business to our good neighbors in the south. Pura Vida.