The new FDA rules have put me out of business.
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Was the tobacco for sale to the public? Which retailers ever carried any of these blends? Or, is this something that could only be bought at a B&M by actually going in?
Ahh, so you could only buy them through a website? That's cool.
I just have never heard of this. I guess he has pulled the links to buy any, because I can't get anything to click. But, has anyone else ever tried these? I am just curious. Everyone is pleading for him to hang in there, and I feel like the only one in the thread who has never heard of this blend or brand.
Are there advertisements that I have missed?
I just have never heard of this. I guess he has pulled the links to buy any, because I can't get anything to click. But, has anyone else ever tried these? I am just curious. Everyone is pleading for him to hang in there, and I feel like the only one in the thread who has never heard of this blend or brand.
Are there advertisements that I have missed?
But but but, it is for the children after all...
The tyrant will always find a pretext for his tyranny - Aesop
The tyrant will always find a pretext for his tyranny - Aesop
Does anyone think that this Late Empire has long left?
For that reason alone, I say stick in there. The US gov't doesn't care about the consequences of its acts; it's just trying to stay funded. It will not be here for much longer.
For that reason alone, I say stick in there. The US gov't doesn't care about the consequences of its acts; it's just trying to stay funded. It will not be here for much longer.
Not only do the new FDA regs state they will regulate pipe tobacco... They also will regulate the actually pipes themselves. What does this mean for the industry? Only Grabows and Kaywoodies from here on out??? Do I need to start cellaring pipes too??? SMH in disgust.
Quoted from the FDAs website:
"In 2016, FDA finalized a rule extending our regulatory authority to cover all tobacco products, including pipe tobacco. FDA now 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.
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“Components” or “parts” include, among other things, software or an assembly of materials intended or reasonably expected to alter or affect the tobacco product’s performance, composition, constituents, or characteristics; or to be used with or for the human consumption of a tobacco product. Accessories of newly-regulated tobacco products are not regulated. For a full definition of components, parts, and accessories, please read Deeming Tobacco Products To Be Subject to the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act.
"In 2016, FDA finalized a rule extending our regulatory authority to cover all tobacco products, including pipe tobacco. FDA now 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.
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“Components” or “parts” include, among other things, software or an assembly of materials intended or reasonably expected to alter or affect the tobacco product’s performance, composition, constituents, or characteristics; or to be used with or for the human consumption of a tobacco product. Accessories of newly-regulated tobacco products are not regulated. For a full definition of components, parts, and accessories, please read Deeming Tobacco Products To Be Subject to the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act.
That would be like trying to regulate whistles or pocketknives, ha ha. They do such a great job of regulating and protecting us from drug paraphernalia that we would never see stores full of water pipes or small drug pipes at all ever. Nope, no such thing, right? Ha ha! :
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As long as I have a pocketknife, I'll have a pipe.
:As long as I have a pocketknife, I'll have a pipe.
All an artisan pipe maker would have to do is say that they are works of art, not intended for tobacco consumption... kind of like how we are getting away with buying aged tobacco by saying that we are collecting the packaging.
If either the Republican or the centrist Democrat candidate wins in Nov, all this socialist governmental overreach will come to a screeching halt. Bills in committee will die, laws recently enacted will either be repealed or not enforced. The only way we need to worry is if the socialist lunatic gets the nomination and wins the election.
Stop selling tobacco. Keep blending for yourself. Send out care packages to your friends for donations. At least for the short term until you can raise the capital you need. Point is there must be work arounds if you have the will to find them.
Edit: folks please don't use this as a forum to vomit political perspectives all over the boards. It's pointless, meaningless and will get the thread locked.
Edit: folks please don't use this as a forum to vomit political perspectives all over the boards. It's pointless, meaningless and will get the thread locked.
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