H.R. 2339
- Thread starter smokeyweb
- Start date
- Status
How would it effect ordering tobacco from overseas? I would routinely order snuff from the UK without issue, actually it’s the way most in the US buys it.
Overseas stores would probably refuse to ship to American addresses. They might even use geographical blocks to prevent your browser to even opening their pages.
I order snuff all the time from the UK... not sure why pipe tobacco differs, so convoluted.
That may continue to work. It’s how the laws in Canada ended up working out. We can import pipe tobacco through the mail from outside of the country, but we can’t get tobacco shipped across provincial borders. It’s bizarre.
I think I figured out a way around this utilizing the notion of a "personal shopper." A store could continue to list product available "in the store" on a website along with contact info for available "personal shoppers." You then send a money order made out in the name of the shopper with your purchase requests. The shopper then makes a purchase of it "in the store" and personally mails it to you. No different than asking a friend living nearby to go to a shop and pick you up something.
So glad I started cellaring when I did...
Anyone else find it ironic that this law was passed by a bunch of fat-asses with a BMI of > 40%
It narrowly passed the house. Shortly after which my district congressman replied to my letter to them about it ensuring me that he didn't vote for it. If it passes the senate we might be screwed...
If it were to pass the senate generally how quickly does such legislation get enforced? And as the one poster here commented do members agree that the flavored tobacco provision will be applied broadly to pipe tobacco?
Maybe. But I understand Estervals ships to Washington state, at least as of about a year ago from a friend in Bellingham. He speaks German and talked with them on the phone. Their position is that the US and Germany have a trade agreement, and they comply with that. I read the bill that passed the House and saw nothing that would change their status. But who knows? I suspect the Danish Pipe Shop could take the same position as Estervals as far as the US is concerned, but they have chosen to just not ship tobacco to anywhere outside Denmark.
I imagine the shops that don’t ship to the US do it avoid chargebacks that might occur if customs were to seize the parcel.
I saw somewhere that The Danish Pipe Shop mentioned that as one reason why they stopped.
I think that the issue with The Danish Pipe Shop has to do mostly with punitive measures from their own government.
I assume the portly man dressed all in white like boss hawg is Esterval?
Wait...the guy dressed up in wizards attire is now providing fashion advise?
Jeez man, we all need to know the essentials of wizard robery, or else we could end up looking like a poser.
- Status