A few of the old eyetie tobacco growers on the hills behind town here decided, after the government terminated their livelihoods to sell "chop-chop" which is unexcised tobacco.
They got more hard time and fine for a triple trailer truck of tobacco than what they would have for the same volume of weed.
Our government gets around excise cheaters like this by making it more illegal to grow and cure tobacco than it is to do same with weed. Which is similar to their attitude on producing spirits for personal consumption.
Ain't that the truth, bubba! They can't collect tax on "the herb", so they screw us on everything else! Of course, lefties don't smoke, so whdoya think pays?
I saw one a few weeks ago where a neighbor sued the guy next door, because his cigar smoke could be "smelled" next door.
It was a health hazard, doncha know?