The handwriting is on the wall.
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Nice job Cossack!
:wink: Krizzy, I can't really try to put a lot of guilt on a whippersnapper like you...I didn't really act very grown up either, until I was about 50ish.
:wink: Krizzy, I can't really try to put a lot of guilt on a whippersnapper like you...I didn't really act very grown up either, until I was about 50ish.
I wonder if someone can grow and produce Syrian tobacco ala Mark Ryan with Perique. I know that VA's are grown all over the world..and too, I wonder how many years ahead these companies have their own hoards?
Hordes
Hordes
Honestly, the avatar is not that big a deal, my comments were meant to be taken lightly. A shrug is about what I expected, moving on.
Not sure about that, but other FDA tobacco regulations such as warning labels apply to imports as well.
Folks there's been some naiive misinformation here. This is about money and special interests, not about over-zealous do-good efforts of a govt agency. These regulations are supported by the tobacco lobby, which are the big corporations. It's an attempt on their part to capture the vaping industry for themselves. In the process if it happens to force a bunch of small pipe and cigar companies out of business, for the big corporations that's just a little added bonus. Every politician regardless of which side of the fence, talks out his ass about helping small business owners and creating jobs, but the evident reality is they help only the big corporations who finance their campaigns, and the only jobs they've created in the last decade have been for people in other countries working for starvation wages.
First, this isn't a fair comparison. Mark Ryan bought a company that had been making Perique in St. James Parish for decades. Perique from the L.A. Poche Perique Company is the real deal.
Secondly. besides the turmoil in Syria, another reason that no more Syrian Latakia is produced is because the particular wood used to smoke the tobacco was overharvested and the government won't allow it to be cut for burning. Without that wood and the type of tobacco that they used, it would only be an imitation. That said, someone told me that there is a Latakia processor in Cyprus experimenting with shorter smoking time to try to get something more along the lines of Syrian.
Russ
Well, I'm sure we can get our friends at Phillip-Morris to partner with their buddies at Dow Chemical to cook up a substitute for Syrian. They can manufacture it the same way they make tobacco "paper" for their cigarettes. Not only do you no longer need Syria, you don't really need the actual tobacco, either.
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