Pipe Cleaners Subject to New Regulations?

[Singularis]

EDIT: Fixed Capitalization in Title (See Rule 9)

I just learned that people are hoarding pipe cleaners of all things, in response to the coming tobaccolypse.

Is this paranoid behavior, thinking that the deeming regulations will somehow make the cost of pipe cleaners skyrocket? I just don't see it, so please enlighten me.

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

I wouldn't think so but nothing would surprise me. Way more pipe cleaners are used for arts and crafts than for cleaning pipes.

 

[ray47]

I guess we'll have to go back to using chicken feathers.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

I just learned that people are hoarding pipe cleaners of all things, in response to the coming tobaccolypse.

Where did you hear this?

Is this paranoid behavior,

I order them several gross at a time, because I just get tired of running out and having to drive to get some, or place a tobacco order just to get more pipecleaners. Besides, I can usually get a better deal by ordering such large boxes of them every few years or so. .

 

[Singularis]

I wouldn't think so but nothing would surprise me. Way more pipe cleaners are used for arts and crafts than for cleaning pipes.

Yeah, I was thinking: if they starting taxing the wazoo out of our pipe cleaners, we could start buying them from the craft stores. Bonus: they come it lots of fun colors!

 

[verporchting]

I’m stocking up. I will record the date purchased on each cleaner using indelible ink. You guys will be paying me soooo much money someday. You’re welcome.

 

[beezer]

I knew this day would come and have been building up my pipe cleaner stockpile for years. Every time the old 20% off deals would come I'd buy a metric ton.

I keep my pipe cleaners right next to my stock of Charmin toilet paper.

 

[Singularis]

Where did you hear this?

I order them several gross at a time, because I just get tired of running out and having to drive to get some, or place a tobacco order just to get more pipecleaners. Besides, I can usually get a better deal by ordering such large boxes of them every few years or so. .

So now we can PCAD to the list of a acquisition disorders (TAD, PAD, PTAD, etc.)

 

[3rdguy]

I found a ton of them by calling B&M's. They sell to me as I purchase pipe cloths from them throughout the year. I have more pipe cleaners then I can shake a stick at. I will not tell you exactly which company I prefer. I also paid wayyyyy less then you ever will !

 

[lukasstrifeson]

I got a couple of arts and crafts stores by me, I think I'll be alright...

 

[mso489]

Arts and crafts may save us all. We can trade pipes as wood carvings, which they are, or stone carvings for Meerschaums, or corn cob crafts, etc.

 

[Chasing Embers]

When information about the deeming was starting to surface, lighters, pipe cleaners, ashtrays, and pipes were being called tobacco products. I think all have been removed from the list.

 

[Sweet Home Alabama]

Hobby Lobby has nice furry pipe cleaners

 

[kcghost]

Pipe cleaners, tell me it ain't so.

 

[anotherbob]

I just learned that people are hoarding pipe cleaners of all things, in response to the coming tobaccolypse.

Is this paranoid behavior, thinking that the deeming regulations will somehow make the cost of pipe cleaners skyrocket? I just don't see it, so please enlighten me.

well with current regulations and possible regulations unless they're made out of something toxic there should be no issue. Seriously but people love imagining the sky is falling and all the chunks of it are aimed at them.

 

[brian64]

When information about the deeming was starting to surface, lighters, pipe cleaners, ashtrays, and pipes were being called tobacco products. I think all have been removed from the list.

Apparently pipes are still included.

FDA regulates the manufacture, import, packaging, labeling, advertising, promotion, sale, and distribution of pipe tobacco. This includes components and parts such as pipes, but excludes accessories such as lighters.

Pipe Tobacco

Find facts and figures about pipe tobacco and an overview of FDA's regulation of pipe tobacco.

www.fda.gov

 

[fireground_piper]

Last I was aware, pipes are as it's used to burn the tobacco in. Everything else was not.

 

[verporchting]

Also, I’m working on a new genetically altered daschwurm, a type of long skinny furred caterpillar that subsists off nicotine and tar that can be left in your pipe stands and trained to work on a seven day rotation. So far it’s going pretty good but I’m still having difficulty training them not to shit in the pipe stems. It’s easier said than done and I’ve got to tell you, daschwurm shit is worse than pipe gunk. This problem had posed substantial problems. However, the oxidation problem is solved and the stems all have fantastic draws! I’ll keep soldiering on. Coming soon to a pipe (bait?) shop near you!

 

[cosmicfolklore]

Hobby Lobby has nice furry pipe cleaners

pipecleaners made for crafts don't work at all in cleaning a pipe. They have no absorbent qualities.

 

[craig61a]

Regulating pipes never made any sense to me... Coffee mugs are used to consume coffee, so why not regulate those as well.

It's all part of orchestrated plan to destroy the tobacco industry, death of a thousand cuts.

We need a National Pipes Association... NPA.