That's a good point that it seems to be the limited release tins. I have no idea why that would be or how the hell that would make any sense though - maybe it's taking advantage of some kind of loop-hole. But I had noticed it with the tins for The Haunting (the C&D blend done with Warped cigars), and also C&Ds two Christmas blends, Corn Cob Pipe and a Button Nose, and Golden Days of Yore. All three are "limited," and have pretty nicely designed tin art and none of them have big warnings. I've known both musical artists and the people who do the artwork for them to put pressure on Amazon and other retailers or industry people to give them flexibility where they have to put bar codes, so as not to detract from the nice package they've put so much work into. I'm fairly good friends with an artist whose done artwork for bands such as Judas Priest and Iron Maiden, and he gets involved in that stuff sometimes. So that's quite likely what's going on here.
But, I'm a new pipesmoker, and not up on all this. When did they START putting the big warnings on tobacco packaging? I didn't know it was a recent change. I do appreciate the artwork sometimes, so I sort of care about this. I also have a young son (11), and I don't really like those warnings to be what I see if I have a tin of Golden Days of Yore, for example (although I don't actually care for that tobacco - I learned right away to steer clear of almost all aromatics. They're just not for me, the same way I can't stand flavored coffee.
On the other hand, my wife smokes cigarettes (right now), and I basically feel the warnings on those packages are appropriate. Both of my parents were big smokers for much of their lives; they both kicked the habit at a certain point, but they both died of cancer. I'm the only member of my family never to have smoked cigarettes, though probably was exposed to enough second-hand smoke to amount to being a moderate smoker!
It’s uncivilized Graffiti.
