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Why Did U.S. Customs Cut My Cigars in Half? - Editorial –

That's a shitty thing to read...

Sadly, the government just expects the retailer to absorb the loss (or pass it on to your customers). If you know 10% of your shipment will be destroyed, you need to make it up with the sales of the ones that survived.

It's really just a hidden tax. They want to keep making it more and more expensive to smoke, hoping that people decide to just stop. However, this has been proven time and time again that it does not work. People just start turning to illegitimate ways to get what they want. This leads to questionable quality and increased health risks, just look at the "cuban" cigar market in the US.

If this continues for too long, it's going to do serious damage to the already fragile B&M network. Once again, reducing market options.