Menthol Cigarettes Banned By FDA. Can Pipe Tobacco Be Next?

[condorlover1]

Title shortened. See bolded part in the original:

"Menthol Cigarettes Banned By FDA along With Flavored Cigars - Can Pipe Tobacco Be Next?"

This was in the NY Post - I wonder if it will effect flavored pipe tobacco? More importantly I wonder how long it will be before some government FDA drone decides that flavored pipe tobacco is the same as a cigar but without a wrapper. Remember promotion beckons for the zealot who finds something new too proscribe. More staff, bigger office, bigger pension, fatter promotions all paid for by you the tax payer!

FDA issues long-awaited proposal to ban menthol cigarettes

The FDA on Thursday issued a long-awaited proposal to ban menthol cigarettes and flavored cigars, a major victory for anti-smoking advocates but one that could dent sales at tobacco companies.

nypost.com

 

[Chasing Embers]

 

[sandollars]

Rat Bastard-it-takes-a-village-Legislators....

 

[STP]

It’s a proposal that has been in the works for 10 yrs. I doubt that you’ll see anything for a few years, but there certainly has been a lot of chatter.

 

[pantsBoots]

I wonder where regular cigarettes fall into this, considering brands such as Camel spray spice extractives (such as cinnamon) on their "unflavored" blends. Will there be some sort of cutoff in ppm, or will Camel et al reformulate their blends to exclude the flavorings? Or will a suitcase full of greenbacks fix that little detail?

 

[sandollars]

I get it that cigarettes are risky. Studies show that because all cig smokers inhale, the introduction of nicotine and other chemicals is somewhere between 100-200 times the amount that a pipe or cigar smoker that does not inhale receives through the the epidermal layers of the mouth. Sure it's still not good for you and if you inhale well, that's another story.

Cigarettes are made for the sole purpose of delivering nicotine as quickly into the bloodstream as possible. Some would argue it's not even real tobacco that you're smoking.

This interesting video from the History Channel:

Smoking a pipe is kinda like getting "baked" and most of us smoke much less that a cig smoker per diem hence why most of us are not nicotine dependent or addicted. I would miss my pipe if I didn't smoke for a month, but I would be breaking furniture and kicking the dog by day 3 or 4 like a cig smoker.

 

[The Amish Tyrant]

Just remember, they pushed the tobacco age law through flawlessly and in record time.

It can happen again.

Maybe it's time to stock up on RYO menthol. Ohm green is my poison of choice.

 

[FurCoat]

Another worthless regulation from a worthless government office.

 

[sablebrush52]

Menthol should have been banned decades ago. It crystalizes in your lungs. Bet they didn't mention that in cigarette ads. I also don't mind poisons being labeled as such.

 

[reloader]

I'm sure some administration at some point will try to ban all tobacco. Not sure when it will happen, but it will be tried. Pipe tobacco will probably be around until they get rid of everything.

 

[jpmcwjr]

Just make good friends with the guys who grow their own.....

 

[warren]

Pipe blends, like water in Southern California, Nevada and the like, will be available to whose who can afford it. There really is no point in banning something which, while losing in popularity socially, generates much in taxes. Although, as the users of marijuana have quickly discovered, legalization means regulations and increased taxes. So, illicit growers continue to thrive. Some growers preserve a percentage of their legal crop for the underground trade and also vend legally. Home grown and distributed tobaccos may become economically worth the risk in some areas. But, tobacco dependant countries will continue to find a market for their different cash crops.

Gotta love unintended consequences.

 

[Hillcrest]

So ... which pipe tobaccos are like free-basing nicotine ? Asking for a friend ...

 

[weezell]

Another worthless regulation from a worthless government office.

Agreed! Let a worthless piece of tell my wife she can't have her menthol cig. Stand by and see one of bloodiest killing and dismembering in history. Don't mess with a red head...ever...??...

 

[FurCoat]

Agreed! Let a worthless piece of tell my wife she can't have her menthol cig. Stand by and see one of bloodiest killing and dismembering in history. Don't mess with a red head...ever...??...

My first wife was a red head. That was an experience.
Have you put any thought into stocking up on Frosty Mint?

 

[Hillcrest]

They tried it in Connecticut, IIRC, they didn't have the votes to bring it to the floor for a vote.

 

[warren]

They tried it in Connecticut, IIRC, they didn't have the votes to bring it to the floor for a vote.

Many folks aren't complete unless they are worrying about what might happen in the future. The best bet for those truly worried is to fill the basement with blends. I prefer to try and handle the problems at hand. I do try and project the future when it comes to investing. I have my daughter to think of and I want to be able to afford blends when they get expensive. I should live so long!

 

[sablebrush52]

Why impose a Prohibition when death by a thousand cuts is so effective?

 

[sandollars]

Don't mess with a red head...ever...??...

Red heads? Piece of cake compared to a Sicilian Woman.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

I'm not sure what makes me more nauseous, the people who want to ban tobaccos or the drastic overreaction to it by smokers.

You want menthols after they are banned, spray them with a mint spray.
You want a flavored cigar, then flavor them.
IF... if they ban flavored pipe tobaccos, then flavor you some.

Dependence on corporations to do all of this stuff for you is weak. I make my own wines, grown my own tobaccos, and it's like hearing people who can't cook and order out for all of their dinners scream when they can't get Doordash or their Pizza app work. "We're gonna starve to death!"