Heading to the Great White North

[nightowl]

I am heading to Canada for a week of fishing, relaxing. What are the restrictions on taking cigars across the border?
What would be the best way to keep them fresh? I cannot control the temp.
Will leaving them sealed in tupperware be good enough? Should I package each days smokes in ziplock bags before I leave?
Thanks for any advice.

[bballbaby]

are you going to Dimple lake? cuz if you are, it's a damn small world.

Couple guys i work with left this morning for canadien fishing trip.

As for cigars, taking is easy, bringing back is the hard part. Tupperware or ziplock would be fine i would say. It takes longer than a day or two to completely dry them out.

enjoy

[Mtmouse]

You should have no problems bringing cigars over here for personal use.

I've folded a paper towel and dampened it with distilled water, place it in a ziplock baggie(don't seal the baggie) and placed that in the tupperware or ziplock baggie with cigars.

[nightowl]

are you going to Dimple lake? cuz if you are, it's a damn small world.


Heading to Prairie Bee Lake in a few weeks. It's between Wawa and Chapleau Onterio.

[kamcma]

Coincidentally, I, too, am going to Canada in a few days for a week-long vacation, so I researched this very topic.

The Canadian Border Services Agency will only let you bring in 40 cigars duty-free. You can bring in more, but you will pay duty on them. (I believe that duty is high enough that it wouldn't even be worth it.)

So, while I'd certainly bring a bunch of cigars, if I were you I might also try to find a Canadian tobacco shop and see if you can't get some--ahem--"different" cigars there. I would do this myself, except I'll be traveling with a bunch of non-smokers and they might balk at the idea of lengthening our drive by going out of our way to find a tobacco shop.

[nightowl]

Coincidentally, I, too, am going to Canada in a few days for a week-long vacation, so I researched this very topic.

The Canadian Border Services Agency will only let you bring in 40 cigars duty-free. You can bring in more, but you will pay duty on them. (I believe that duty is high enough that it wouldn't even be worth it.)

So, while I'd certainly bring a bunch of cigars, if I were you I might also try to find a Canadian tobacco shop and see if you can't get some--ahem--"different" cigars there. I would do this myself, except I'll be traveling with a bunch of non-smokers and they might balk at the idea of lengthening our drive by going out of our way to find a tobacco shop


I don't think there are any tobbaco shops where we will be going except when we go thru Sault Sainte Marie, but 20 cigars will be plenty for me. So shouldn't be a problem.