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Effortlessdepths

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I really hope this isn't a dumb question, and I did scan the other threads in this section and couldn't find a straight answer, but is there currently any threats to pipe tobacco here in the US?
 
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olkofri

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I'd be cellaring as much as I could.

Right now not much has been heard about threats to tobacco given that the attention is completely, tunnel-vision-like focused with a 100,000x magnification on the present 'crisis', and this in itself should give you reason to cellar: who know what's been sneaked in into those omnibus bills whilst the attention is directed elsewhere?
 

edger

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I'd be cellaring as much as I could.

Right now not much has been heard about threats to tobacco given that the attention is completely, tunnel-vision-like focused with a 100,000x magnification on the present 'crisis', and this in itself should give you reason to cellar: who know what's been sneaked in into those omnibus bills whilst the attention is directed elsewhere?
Hear Hear!!!
 

edger

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With the anti smoking mentality in the country, of course there are thrrats. Do any of them seem likely to end pipe smoking totally? No.
Perhaps not totally but the equivalent for most of us. No one is going to attack the Second Amendment head on but taxing ammunition will be just as effective. If you go after demand supply will follow. Inflated prices via taxes will kill our hobby for all but the wealthy and even they will give up.
 

olkofri

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Inflated prices via taxes will kill our hobby for all but the wealthy and even they will give up.
Except for those wealthy ones who are exempt from the laws. And even those who choose to comply with their own laws (or give the appearance that they do) will cellar: didn't JFK order one of his subordinates to buy as many H. Upmann cigars as he could get ahold of on the eve of signing the Cuban embargo?

Bottom line: if you're not a member of the politico class or have connexions, cellar now; and don't post your purchases on suxial media: that's telling them where to send the confiscators once posession becomes illegal.
 

olkofri

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You can have my Cult Blood Red Moon when you tear it from my cold dead hands!
I'd not be giving them any ideas.

I can picture a warning label with a photo of cops in SWAT gear with smoking guns and a poor, blood-soaked sod on the floor looking like Swiss cheese with a pipe in his mouth and surrounded by tins, with TOBACCO KILLS as a warning legend.
 

sablebrush52

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So no active laws are pending for anything like that
There have been laws proposed that would outlaw all sales that are not face to face. This would effectively shut down all remote sales of tobacco. So far, none of them have made it through to a vote.
The biggest threat might eventually be a dearth of available pipe quality tobacco being grown here in the US. There's a lot less of it than there used to be.
But outisde of the guillotine blade that's dropping next August 8th, I don't see any immediate threat.
 
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