An Email I Just Received From No. 6 Cavendish In Britain

[Mike N]

I am on the mailing list of No. 6 Cavendish, one of the UK’s premier cigar shops, and received this email this evening:

“The UK Government’s proposed Tobacco and Vapes Bill could have devastating, unintended consequences for the cigar community — from passionate collectors to the small, specialist retailers who serve them.

The “generational sales ban” has been designed with cigarettes in mind, yet it fails to distinguish between mass-market tobacco and premium cigars and pipe tobacco, which are used responsibly by a small, mature adult demographic.

Cigars and pipe tobacco make up just 1.2% of the tobacco market
90% of cigar smokers are over the age of 25
Yet they’re being treated the same as cigarettes under this Bill

We believe this Bill is a blunt instrument — lacking evidence, nuance, and proper consultation. If passed unchanged, it risks putting independent tobacconists out of business and criminalising retailers for serving law-abiding adults.

Please take 30 seconds to contact your MP and ask them to protect cigars and pipe tobacco from this sweeping legislation. It only takes a moment.”

 

[warren]

"unintended consequences", what a naive bunch they are at No.6.

 

[Pipeandapencil]

Go down to your nearest harbor and begin throwing all the tea you can find into the water. We had an oppressive government once, and that did the trick.

 

[The Benedictine]

Go down to your nearest harbor and begin throwing all the tea you can find into the water. We had an oppressive government once, and that did the trick.

We just beheaded monarchs.

 

[Pipeandapencil]

We just beheaded monarchs.

results may vary...

 

[Auxsender]

Go down to your nearest harbor and begin throwing all the tea you can find into the water. We had an oppressive government once, and that did the trick.

That and a giant war.

 

[HeavyLeadBelly]

Go down to your nearest harbor and begin throwing all the tea you can find into the water. We had an oppressive government once, and that did the trick.

A healthy dose of tar and feathering was also had

 

[Pipe_Guard]

"unintended consequences", what a naive bunch they are at No.6.

Yeah sure, about as naive as the bunch that claimed Vape would be a quick, easy way to get people to stop smoking cigarrettes.

 

[khiddy]

We just beheaded monarchs.

IIRC, you did that just once, no? And then restored his son to the throne, the “Glorious Restoration”?

 

[BingBong]

IIRC, you did that just once, no? And then restored his son to the throne, the “Glorious Restoration”?

French, not British.