Is Pipe Tobacco Currently Threatened in USA?
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Well, yes. Public opinion, US Govt., FDA... Over the last several decades more and more rules and regulations.
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?
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?
Eventually there will be laws making it illegal to ship tobacco from state to state, When it happens you will be left with some tobacconists who know what they are doing, but much more who don't. I would be buying all of my favorites as fast as I could if y cellar was not complete.
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.
That,my friend is spot on and a sad situation...
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.
To answer the OP's question, "No,"
And since we seem to be going political: IBTL
And since we seem to be going political: IBTL
Oh shit! Now simple economics is political. Give me a break.
Any entity or factor that raises prices artificially reduces demand. It's as sure as gravity.
Well, economics has always been tied to public administration (i.e. politics). Always. 'Cept maybe for those 'stateless' blokes living in the boonies who pay no taxes.
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.
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.
Tobacco Legislation is actually one of the listed forum subtopics. Or am I crazy?
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