I don't know what this WON'T affect. I worry about the PC Midtown series of tub tobaccos, Fire Storm from Russ O., the smokingpipes.com Lowlands series, and on and on. Some or all of this is post 2007. I'm hoping some or most of the Iwan Ries Three Star series is secure, since it has been around for many decades; the shop opened in 1847, if I remember correctly. It's going to be odd shopping for pipe tobacco. Hopefully this won't start in full force for a year or two, although the blenders may adjust in advance, just to stabilize their business plans. I'm not someone who can only smoke three or four specific blends, but like all of us, I have reveled in having an unending parade of new and exotic blends or single-leaf to choose among. Now it may be like the Soviet department story; you can buy a shirt in gray or black, and the gray is out of stock. I guess I'd rather be a damned fool optimist than all gloomy about it, but it's not cheering me up.
