One day soon, the anti-smoking crowd will succeed in getting them banned everywhere. And when they have that feat packed in the bag, they’ll start in on the next vice - take your pick...running shoes (made by slave child labor, etc.)....water in plastic bottles, whatever.
They’ll tax them out of sight to recoup what they lost in tobacco taxes and then eventually get them banned too. It won’t stop and they will not ever be satisfied. They have a dire need to control others lives and the essential ingredient in the satisfaction of that need is the ability to take money to use to fulfill it. That money will come from the future addicts who want to wear running shoes, drink water from plastic bottles, etc.
One day - they will come for your Starbucks!
It’s strange but I hate the smell of cigarettes and cigars but enjoy the smell of a pipe.
Believe it or not, back in the 80’s my elementary school principal smoked a pipe and walked the halls while he was doing it!
For me, there’s something nostalgic about that smell.
Quite true. I go into the city once a month or less and buy my tobacco by the pound. It’s labelled as pipe tobacco but is in fact cigarette tobacco. $45 a pound and I roll my own.
If the government had kept a reasonable (although higher than any other product) tax rate on cigarettes they wouldn’t be losing all that tax revenue - and that is all this is about.
They don’t want to ban it - They want more taxes from it.
Well hellsbells if you’re moving to a pipe, grow your own tobacco.
Why not, the pot smokers do it!
Want to close the Mexican border?
Start smuggling in cigarettes and fatty foods with the cocaine and illegals. The Leftists will clamp down tight to stop that.
I switched from cigarettes for little cigars (basically the same thing) years ago and ain’t ever going back. They taste like a cigarette used to taste. I can get them for about $10.99 a carton over the Internet.
A couple of times, I went from cigs to pipe.
I found I increased lighting the pipe from a couple of times a day to about 10 times a day.
In January 2003, I quit cigs/pipe completely. Have not used either since.
I figure, with increased cost (taxes and tobacco price), I am saving about $1800-2400 per year. I use the saving to splurge occasionally — LCD TV, laptop, desktop computer, ROKU and Netflix streaming, WDTV box, etc.
Those splurges are guilt-free. And, after nearly 10 years of being smokeless, I have quite a surplus for more splurges.
Well, now that I live in Kentucky I can roll my own cigars. They may not be the best (finding good wrapper leaves may be a challenge), but they will be completely under the nanny state radar.
Wonder how much taxes pot users pay.in Ca we have thousands of such shops.