Supply Meets Demand
Less than a month after the federal ban on clove cigarettes began, a close substitute good, clove cigars, has hit the market.
October 28, 2009
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As a clove cigarette aficionado, I can tell you these are very different products. Cigar tobacco is much coarser, and the taste is frankly vomitous. Cigars are definitely an acquired taste, and no one who is not already a fan of stogies will be able to stand these.
If they banned normal cigarettes, and didn’t touch normal cigars, and black market was not an issue, you would find only a small minority of cigarette smokers would move to cigars.
Comment by vroman — October 30, 2009 @ 12:32 a.m.
Interesting! Thank you for the clarification. Myself, I am by no means an aficionado. With my limited knowledge I assumed that these products are very close substitutes.
Comment by Christine Harbin — October 30, 2009 @ 8:22 a.m.