Tobacco Legislation

[lordofthepiperings]

Will they ever distinguish different tobaccos in these legislations? I've seen it everywhere and pipe tobacco is greatly different from tobacco used for cigars, cigarettes, or those dreaded hookahs. It doesn't quite seem fair to me that lawmakers lump all tobacco use together. I've never read anywhere of pipe tobaccos having much added to them aside from flavoring. Also I have read of studies universities have done showing the average pipe smoker out living the average non-pipe smoker. I'd just like, for a change, not to be lumped together with those nasty cigarette smokers, especially when it affects the price of my tobacco.

 

[cortezattic]

Well, I agree that legislators should be more discriminating. But since we've been placed

in the same box as the smokers of other types of tobacco, we have to confront the issues

with a unified front. I think we either pull together or fail. There is also the greater issue of

individual liberties being trampled -- even the liberties of "those nasty cigarette smokers".

 

[jimbo]

Amen, Cortez. :D
Wasn't it Ben Franklin who said, "We must all hang together or else we will all hang separately."? ::

 

[unclearthur]

To antis tobacco is tobacco .

 

[brian64]

Well said Cortez!

 

[yoru]

I've always been on the united front camp -- but it goes back and forth between topics where sometimes everyone will jump on board (usually when someone give a short a somewhat pithy reason for doing so) and sometimes everyone will say that uniting with fag smokers is just asking for more trouble.
Of course the first job, really, is to get everyone to agree on one or the other. Otherwise we effectively do squat. There's a reason 'ole Teddy lost his third campaign for the presidency, and it had nothing to do with the man who beat him.

 

[schmitzbitz]

As Mr. Pease has so eloquently put it, without big tobacco (cigarettes), our hobby would seize to exist. Whether we like it or not, there are not many farmers who grow a tobacco crop specifically for pipe tobacco blends - hell, even perique was kept alive by American Spirit. Our hobby, despite seemingly coming back into fashion, is reliant on the more "accepted" forms of tobacco consumpion - or, to put it simply, where the bulk of the money comes from.
It's a point of contention for me that we strive to distinguish ourselves from cigar and cigarette smokers when really, a united front might just actually get something accomplished.