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Texas legislators are considering a statewide smoking ban - again. This time, however, the only thing that has changed is that more jobs and businesses than ever would be at stake, according to the International Premium Cigar & Pipe Retailers Association. The organization is comprised of more than 2,000 retailers and manufacturers, mostly small, family-owned businesses.
Texas legislators are considering a statewide smoking ban - again. This time, however, the only thing that has changed is that more jobs and businesses than ever would be at stake, according to the International Premium Cigar & Pipe Retailers Association. The organization is comprised of more than 2,000 retailers and manufacturers, mostly small, family-owned businesses.
"Exaggerated claims relative to the health aspects of secondhand smoke continue to be flung about carelessly while the Occupational Safety and Health Administration - OSHA - continues to maintain safe levels for secondhand smoke which are well in excess of any air quality standards that would be found in most businesses, including restaurants and bars," said Chris McCalla, legislative director of IPCPR.
"Meanwhile, since last year’s pass at a smoking ban, our economy has tanked, people are out of work, overtaxed and looking for jobs, businesses are hanging on by a thread or closing their doors and laying off yet more people while Texas legislators are wasting their time on non-issues like smoking bans instead of dealing with matters of substance like jobs and the economy."
McCalla pointed out that the United States Constitution guarantees the rights of business owners to run their businesses as they see fit, and that includes deciding whether or not to permit smoking on the premises.
"The system is working. The marketplace is deciding for itself whether businesses should allow smoking or not. And that’s the way it should be. We don’t need government to tell business owners how to run their businesses," said McCalla.
Some have suggested that permits might be issued by the State for those businesses where smoking is permitted and that exemptions might be encouraged for businesses that cater to adults like cigar bars and cigar stores.
"Legislated smoking bans have ruined businesses and employees have been laid off because of them, according to the Federal Reserve Bank. Based on data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Fed concluded that smoking bans, wherever they occur, hurt businesses, especially bars and restaurants," McCalla said.
McCalla takes the position that public policy like smoking bans puts small businesses in jeopardy of jobs, tax receipts and profits and should not be considered at any time, especially during economically perilous times as now.
I was elated a couple of months ago when I read a Wall Street Journal article that pipe smoking was making a come-back and some of this new popularity was being discovered on college campuses. They told of students smoking pipes at Central Michigan University, Vanderbilt University, University of Illinois, University of California at Riverside, and Temple University, in Philadelphia. The Wall St. Journal Article is Here
Well all of those students should thank their lucky stars that they do not go to the University of Oklahoma where “the UCO Student Association Senate passed a resolution that puts the university on the path to becoming tobacco free.
The resolution, which passed by a majority vote of 45 to 37, called for making the campus entirely tobacco free. The resolution bans cigarettes, cigars, pipe tobacco, snuff, spit tobacco, as well as herbal tobacco products.” - Full Article
And they are very proud of themselves!
I think they should all be sent home and given a spanking by their parents, and grounded for a week.
Unfortunately, the majority of people are lemmings and sheep and believe whatever the media and pleasure police tell them. So many people are still buying into all the second-hand smoke falsities that have been manufactured by anti-smoking Nazis. That is a good name for them too. Did you know that Hitler was vehemently against smoking? He hated smoking almost as much as he hated Jews.
Instead of banning tobacco, they should ban stupidity and then we would be rid of at least 45 students over there.
I better go smoke a pipe and relax.
There are some people who are swayed by the way a tobacco is presented and while the tin doesn’t overly impress me on most occasions I do have to say that this tobacco comes in a very attractive tin and it contains a very passable tobacco that’s a pleasant blend of Virginia and Oriental that should appeal to anyone who enjoys a good English such as Penzance or Pirate Kake.
In another article here I suggested that the best pipe to smoke was a briar pipe … a pipe made from a particularly hard timber that only comes from the Mediterranean but perhaps the ultimate in pipes isn’t made of wood at all … perhaps it’s made of stone.
Genuine Meerschaum pipes are regarded as the elite of pipes and they are made of a soft white mineral that is so light it can actually float. These days Meerschaum generally comes from Turkey although there are deposits in several other nearby countries. When mined the mineral is quite soft but hardens when exposed to the sun.
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