Well as long as tobacco remains legal I suppose there will always be a limited place for tobacconists, but the old style “Gentlemen’s tobacconist shop” is a rarity these days, the sort of place where a customer could have his own personal blend of pipe tobacco made up for him.
The modern tobacco shop with it emphasis on cheap cigarettes, vapes and illegal chop chop is a tacky downmarket apparition of a tobacconist.
As time goes on any of these old style establishments will need a really good online presence to survive, but it will be the niche market for the old style if marketed properly and carefully that will trickle on quite well providing to overheads can be kept under control.
Just like we like our funny old watches, there are those that love the whole old style quality smoking thing of pipes and cigars.
Now I don’t smoke…never have and I think you’d have to have rocks in your head to start, cigarettes especially, but see little harm in a cigar or pipe on the odd occasion, all in moderation of course.
It would be hypocritical of me to condemn it as my family made an awful lotta money outta tobacco, and later I myself worked for a company that hired my services to one of the big tobacco companies.
Mind you I know what they put in cigarettes, you’d be surprised at some of the stuff they blend in, stuff like chocolate, raspberry, honey, and shit tons of sugar!
Ya might think those ingredients seem relatively harmless but what chemical compounds to they become when slowly combusting and especially in conjunction with the other ingredients.
