If the “powers that be” go full on crazy, I’d love to support Native American tribes that want to import, or sell pipe tobacco. It may be the way around oppressive regimes.The First Nations are probably like our Native Americans, more than willing to supply us with fresh, tasty, machine rolled non taxed cigarettes.
I’m enjoying a Buoy Gold cigarette that I rolled myself, and fully taxed and legal, it cost about three cents, two for the tobacco and one for the tube. The Indians might manufacture an entire package for a dime or less.
In America our federal tax is only a dollar a package. Missouri tax is 17 cents. 24/7 cigarettes made on an Oklahoma reservation retail for about $22 a carton—-not a pack.
When I started smoking in 1972 cigarettes were forty cents a pack and $3.20 a carton and I didn’t have the extra money for a carton to spare.
My lunch tokens cost 25 cents each and while I didn’t, lots of kids traded two lunch tokens for a package of Marlboros the pool hall. I paid the quarter, dime and nickel.
That sort of thing is why we wind up today with the do gooders and the government trying to bring Big Tobacco to heel.
We aren’t on the side of the angels, my friends.
We are on the side of vice and sin, and the road to perdition .
But if you do the math, the Indians on the reservation are spending a dollar a carton to wholesale the product for maybe three or four dollars.
Maybe we could reverse what Al Capone did during prohibition and smuggle them North.
The government wants to fight demand.
If kids don’t start, most adults won’t smoke.
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A new piece from Halfwheel, worth reading thoroughly
Pipe tobacco is "explicitly included" in the draft i.e., would be subject to nicotine limitsFDA Moves Nicotine Limits Proposal to Public Comment Period, Premium Cigars Exempt
On Jan. 16, 2025, the comment period for the FDA's proposed rule regarding nicotine limits will open, the next step in a process that started nearly seven years ago. As of now, "premium cigars" are exempt from the proposal, though flavored cigars and pipe tobacco are included.
How do they actually do that? Is it by only selling low nicotine blends or a chemical process!
They really have it out for premium cigars, the courts have been pretty consistent in siding with the cigar industry but the FDA just refuses to drop it. I always comment on these things when there's an opportunity. I'm so grateful for Cigar Rights America, they do such good work.
Now the industry has evolved to a point where there's 0 Proof liqueurs, there's even a few amaros now. So now it's totally possible to have an alcohol free cocktail, it could also be an option to use an alcohol free alternative in a cocktail with other alcohol ingredients in order to lower the ABV. I think it's a very exciting industry development. If there was quality nicotine free tobacco I'd definitely try it since I don't smoke for the buzz
The cigar lobby is pretty strong and they to have little to no interest in supporting pipe smokers, so we're on our own.
I've no idea mate. All I know is in the EU/UK you can only buy cigarettes with no more than 1mg nicotine, 10 mg of tar and 10mg of carbon monoxide. How the meddling bastards do it I really don't know.
It's a shame there isn't any sort of equivalent for pipe smokers.
The fact that the EU has limited nicotine in cigarettes as long as they have yet many member states have a much higher cigarette smoking rate than countries with no such restrictions show it doesn't work.
