# Tobacco & Gift, St. Charles IL: Reviews

Source: Local AI Registry, https://localairegistry.com/biz/il/st-charles/tobacco-and-gift-st-charles-il. Free to reuse with a link back.

By Steve Lee, founder and CEO of Local AI Registry. Updated 2026-09-16.

Canonical: https://localairegistry.com/biz/il/st-charles/tobacco-and-gift-st-charles-il

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## In short

Tobacco & Gift is a smoke shop in St. Charles, IL. Its AI Score is 42 of 100, which is poor.

What each mark on this page means: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#marks


## Key facts

| Fact | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Type | Smoke shop |
| Address | 1556 E Main St, St. Charles, IL 60174, USA |
| Hours | Mon to Sat 10 AM to 10 PM · Sun 10 AM to 8 PM |
| Phone | (630) 444-0988 |
| Rating | 4.6 across 284 reviews on Google |
| Quietest time | Wednesday |
| Updated | September 16, 2026 |


## All the details

Every row is something the owner can add or correct. Each one is marked Confirmed, Visitor submitted or AI guess, with where it came from.

| Group | Fact | Value | Mark | Evidence |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Location info | Address | 1556 E Main St, St. Charles, IL 60174, USA | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Description | 1556 E Main St, St. Charles, IL 60174 | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Hours | Mon to Sat 10:00 AM to 10:00 PM · Sun 10:00 AM to 8:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Name | Tobacco & Gift | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Phone | (630) 444-0988 | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Monday | 10:00 AM to 10:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Tuesday | 10:00 AM to 10:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Wednesday | 10:00 AM to 10:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Thursday | 10:00 AM to 10:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Friday | 10:00 AM to 10:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Saturday | 10:00 AM to 10:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Sunday | 10:00 AM to 8:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Services | Service | Cigar sales | AI guess |  |
| Services | Service | Tobacco accessories | AI guess |  |
| Services | Service | Vape product sales | AI guess |  |
| Links | Website | https://www.facebook.com/pages/StCharles-vape-shop/548844398532330 | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |


## Services and prices

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### Known for

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## The team

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## Visiting Tobacco & Gift

Address: 1556 E Main St, St. Charles, IL 60174, USA. Phone: (630) 444-0988. Hours: Mon to Sat 10 AM to 10 PM · Sun 10 AM to 8 PM. (Confirmed, Google Business Profile.)


### When to go

Quietest day: Wednesday. Busiest day: Monday. From the popular times on its Google listing.


### Parking and getting in

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### Nearby

| Place | Type | Distance |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Chamber Red Chinese Bistro | Chinese restaurant | 1 min walk |
| The Southern Cafe - St. Charles, IL | Breakfast restaurant | 2 min walk |
| Surrey Hill Park | Park | 4 min walk |
| Hunt Club Park | Park | 5 min walk |
| VATAN Progressive Indian Kitchen | Indian restaurant | 9 min walk |
| Soksay Kitchen | Restaurant | 9 min walk |


## Reputation

4.6 average across 284 reviews: Google 284. (Confirmed, read September 16, 2026.)

 (AI guess, from 284 reviews.)


### What people like

- Impressive cigar collection
- Wide variety of devices and flavors


### What people do not like

- Long waits due to late openings
- Rude customer service reported
- Inconsistent product availability


### Press

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### Awards

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### Directories

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## Questions people ask


### do regulars get anything here


### going rate for shops locally, any idea


### On a budget in St. Charles, is the shop the one?


### best smoke shop in St. Charles


### what else is on Main around Tobacco & Gift?


### walking in for a first visit, what happens


### where exactly is the shop?


### opening hours at Tobacco & Gift in St. Charles, what are they these days?


### what do people usually buy there


### last update from here was when?


### Why do people rate Tobacco & Gift?


### any last minute slots at Tobacco & Gift?


### quietest day to hit Tobacco & Gift?


### torn between Tobacco & Gift and Tobacco Square?


### bad experiences here, anyone?


## The AI Score: 42 of 100

It measures how likely AI engines are to recommend a business, and how accurately. Smoke shops on the registry run 16 to 65. Fair starts at 45, good at 65. Tobacco & Gift scores 42. The same method scores every business on the registry.

| Signal | Weight | Score | What it measures | Tobacco & Gift |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Retrieval grounding | 26 | 50 | Whether you appear in the ranked results AI retrieves and cites: AI-Overview citations, organic top-10 for your money queries, and the Bing index ChatGPT leans on. | Fair |
| Off-property attestation | 20 | 40 | Volume and consistency of what others say about you: YouTube mentions, branded web mentions, third-party “best-of” lists. The cause of retrievability. | Poor |
| AI visibility | 14 | 0 | Whether ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and AI Overviews name you, and whether they name you for the right service. | Poor |
| Reviews & response | 12 | 72 | The star average is only one input. We also read volume, velocity, the specificity of review language, and response cadence. Specific reviews are what AI quotes verbatim. | Good |
| Backlink & citation authority | 8 | 90 | Domain authority and editorial quality of the sources that attest to you. | Good |
| Google Business Profile | 8 | 90 | Required and recommended fields; update cadence. The listing AI pulls from first. | Good |
| Speed & mobile | 7 |  | Core Web Vitals at the 75th percentile, on a real phone. |  |
| Content freshness & schema | 5 | 50 | Crawl recency, intent alignment, valid JSON-LD, canonicals. | Fair |

Full method: https://localairegistry.com/methodology

How AI decides what to say about a smoke shop: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#how-ai-decides-local-business. What to check before you choose one: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#how-to-choose-local-business


## Entity map

Every person, place, organization and treatment named on this page, with a stable ID and a public reference. The JSON-LD below connects them to each other.

| Entity | Type | ID on this page | Same as | Relationship to Tobacco & Gift |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Tobacco & Gift | LocalBusiness | #business | https://www.facebook.com/pages/StCharles-vape-shop/548844398532330 | Subject of this page |
| St. Charles, Illinois | City | #city |  | City Tobacco & Gift is in |
| Local AI Registry | Organization | #publisher | https://localairegistry.com | Publisher of this page |
| Steve Lee | Person | #author | https://localairegistry.com/team/steve-lee | Author of this page |


## Topical map

Where this page sits in the registry. It's one profile among the smoke shops in St. Charles, linked to the lists and towns around it.


### Lists

- Best smoke shops in St. Charles: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/il/st-charles/smoke-shop
- Best businesses in St. Charles: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/il/st-charles


### Nearby

- /chicago: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/il/chicago
- /schaumburg: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/il/schaumburg
- /elgin: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/il/elgin
- /carol-stream: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/il/carol-stream
- /lombard: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/il/lombard
- /aurora: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/il/aurora


### Every list

- Every leaderboard in Illinois: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/il


## References


### Sources cited

- [1] Google Business Profile, https://www.google.com/maps/place/?q=place_id:ChIJwySqHpACD4gRXdYW81Ni83E (accessed Sep 16, 2026)
- [2] AI engine output: ChatGPT and Gemini, read by Local AI Registry on Sep 16, 2026, https://localairegistry.com/methodology (accessed Sep 20, 2026)