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Oppressive FDA Regulations
I'm not sure I do. It sounds like you are describing a full on black market. But I'm looking for a real and legal loophole that would stand up if ever challenged in court. There are other businesses that operate successfully and legally in just such a narrow legal space. Aside from the milk...- ryeguy
- Post #36
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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Oppressive FDA Regulations
In re litigation costs: Yeah, and the cigar industry wouldn't have a dog in that particular fight so the small blenders couldn't count on their financial and legal assistance if it did get litigated. I don't understand why there isn't a simple political solution to all this. I would expect a...- ryeguy
- Post #34
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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Oppressive FDA Regulations
Woodsroad, that is an interesting precedent that I'd known of and forgotten. Do you remember whether that ever got challenged in court?- ryeguy
- Post #32
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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Oppressive FDA Regulations
I don't know who's right, but there does appear to be a disagreement in what the new regs say. Sablebrush says that the regulations only apply to sale of tobacco products. But if there is no sale of tobacco products then the regs don't apply and something like I am suggesting might be legally...- ryeguy
- Post #31
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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Oppressive FDA Regulations
But what if you aren't reselling it, because you don't own it in the first place? My tailor doesn't own my cloths and resell them after altering them to fit me. They provide a service to me, and I own the clothes from beginning to end. If I buy whole leaf and pay someone to strip the main vein...- ryeguy
- Post #27
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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Changing taste
At least half of the new blends I buy just don't do anything for me. I always seal them up and plan to come back to them periodically in case my tastes change. After many months I just revisited McClelland 5100, Red Cake. It had previously never done much for me; for some reason it always...- ryeguy
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- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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Oppressive FDA Regulations
I don't mean to disagree with what you are saying. What you describe may very well be the way the industry ends up going. But whole leaf tobacco is pretty close to a commodity in the strict economic sense (there is little premium for a particular brand of whole leaf--you can substitute one...- ryeguy
- Post #24
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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Artificially Coloring a Meerschaum Stummel
. . . or from perdurabo. On edit: Is that meant to be Latin? I'm getting some inter-thread duality from the FDA reg thread.- ryeguy
- Post #7
- Forum: Meerschaum Pipes
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Oppressive FDA Regulations
Thanks! Yeah, one big downside is that you couldn't very well sample the blend in a small quantity or make an impulse buy. I'd imagine the minimum share would end up need to be a significant quantity (say, a half-pound). And you'd have to think ahead and buy in to an individual batch before it...- ryeguy
- Post #21
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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Artificially Coloring a Meerschaum Stummel
Note to self: do not purchase estate meershaums from robwoodall.- ryeguy
- Post #5
- Forum: Meerschaum Pipes
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Oppressive FDA Regulations
An idea came to me last night. There are all sorts of regulations restricting the sale of raw (unpasteurized) milk in the US. To get arround this, crunchy folks go in on co-ops in which they buy a "share" of a milkcow and then pay the farmer monthly to house, feed, tend, and milk the cow...- ryeguy
- Post #19
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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Oppressive FDA Regulations
So, the stuff that is grandfathered, is it subject to new taxes or regulations that will make it scarce or more expensive? I've heard tell of--what I think were called--"user fees" that are to be paid quarterly by the tobacco producers based in part on the amount of tobacco they sell. I...- ryeguy
- Post #12
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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How Did You Get Started?
I'm still very much in the transition. But I think most of my difficulty with giving up my remaining cigarettes boils down to convenience (I can roll and smoke a cig in 5 minutes--whether I'm standing, walking, driving--and at no point do I need to look at what I'm doing or find somewhere to put...- ryeguy
- Post #28
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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How Did You Get Started?
I grew up with an image of pipe smoking and tobacco generally that gave me that weird nostalgia for something one has never experience. It seemed to go hand in hand in my mind with a less complicated, more humane, more civilized time. I encountered it in books, in my mother's fond memories of...- ryeguy
- Post #25
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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Recommend a Straight Virginia?
Union Square, Blackwoods Flake, and C&D's Straight Virginia Flake are going on my to try list.- ryeguy
- Post #36
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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Decent Briar for under $50?
So I've pulled the trigger. I settled on the following acquisitions for this round: Ropp--sandblasted, Etudiant J05 (bent Dublin) Rossi--Vittoria Billiard P. Piazzolla--smooth, straight Billiard (normal bit, not the P-lip) I will report back on my findings. Thanks for all the suggestions; I... -
Recommend a Straight Virginia?
Just to me too: I'll second the idea of testing a number of VAs of different styles. They can manifest a number of different profiles, and as we all have different taste, you never know which will catch your fancy. Dunhill Flake is a great tobacco in my book. It was the first flake I really...- ryeguy
- Post #33
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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Pipe Tobacco and Coffee Soap
Very interesting. Although, I wonder if it depends on the state. I thought a lot of states (though obviously not all) considered it a health violation for restaurants to allow smoking indoors; so in those states the establishment could be fined if someone reported it, and with enough such...- ryeguy
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Decent Briar for under $50?
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Decent Briar for under $50?
The thing that concerns me, though, is that while I can try most tobaccos for +-$10 and at worst it will be mediocre and get smoked over a long period of time, a high-end pipe will set me back more than I'm willing to try as an experiment. But what if I'm wrong and a $300 pipe really will open...