Check out Tommy Zman’s Smoking Outdoors Rant
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Kevin Godbee
- Mar 10, 2012
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Tommy Zman is a "real" guy – someone who considers himself a throwback to a time when men were kings of the castle, and smoking a cigar (or pipe) in public didn’t label you an outcast and a pariah. He’s totally old-school, a down to earth guy with traditional values.
Check out his excellent rant on how ludicrous outdoor smoking bans are in the March 2012 edition of Cigar Chronicles, "Do Cigar Smokers Even Stand an Outside Chance?"
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Winton
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Rather than complaining about this stuff, it’s time to stand up and be counted. Join me in the gentle art of protest by refusing to comply. Until pipe and cigar folks start to push back, this will only get worse. I have had enough.
It is just the popular thing to do, stroke of a pen. Does not effect him, easy to sign away.
this is so true! the thing is that they already made booze illegal once. founf it didnt work, so they are picking on us smokers…what i truely find amazing is that people i work w/ that are the anti smoking nazis are also big believers in legalizing pot. where is the logic!!!!!!!!!