I feel like a lot of the blends that might disappear will be using the deeming regs as an excuse to drop a blend that isn't as profitable without having to take the blame from the consumer.
I used to wonder how pipe tobacco made much money until I found out how dedicated some people are to buying enough tobacco to protect them against a future where people live a thousand years and farms don't exist anymore.I hope I'm wrong... but you gotta know we are rare birds, pipe smokers that is. All smokers combined make up somewhere around 15% of the population. Pipe smokers are a tiny percentage of that 15%.. and some percentage of those pipe smokers support anti-smoking laws. A large part of the total 15% are people who are ashamed that they smoke cigarettes, and wouldn't lift a finger to protect that right.
Again, I hope you're right.. Cigars must have the right supporters even though there can't be many. They seem to be exempt from the current anti-smoking stuff. Which is crazy, because I'd bet most of the cigar market is made up of cigarillos, that are used to make blunts for weed smokers.
I cant see mso even trying the MJ!
Sadly you may be right. America used to have more of a libertarian streak (that’s libertarian with a lower case “l”), but I feel that the country is quickly throwing freedoms away for the illusion of safety, and becoming more dependent on legislators to govern not the state, but individuals’ choices. We may not be far behind you if things keep taking this tack.We’ve legalized weed in Canada, and there is certainly no halo effect where people stop villainizing smokers.
It wasn’t legalized out of a libertarian acceptance to live and let live. It wasn’t legalized as a movement to accept a diversity of choices and lifestyles. That was just the dishonest marketing. There is still an accepted lifestyle; an approved one. Weed is approved, and tobacco isn’t.
I went to high school with that guy. He drove a van.MSO GETTIN UPBEAT RIGHT NOW
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YO YOU KNEW SQUIRREL’S BROTHER?????!I went to high school with that guy. He drove a van.
yeah I will never forget in pathology class during the cancer lessons finding there was a rare but nasty bladder cancer that only people who worked with a specific industrial solvent and cigarette smokers would get. I looked up the list of additives in cigs and that solvent was one of them. There is some nasty shit in those things.I think a large part of the cancer-rate difference between tobacco and cannabis is the very many chemical additives that are in the manufactured-cigarette tobacco. I'm sure they will begin to be added to cannabis once the cigarette companies have gotten sales of their new product legalized in more states.
Yeah, but that 600 million is for the state to line their pockets. Do you expect them to save it? No, they can't. It burns a hole in their pocket and falls out, if they don't spend it. Besides, they deserve your money. Strongly written with sarcasm.I remember the argument about the cost of smoking-related diseases coming up very often in the 80s and it was completely fallacious. I can't remember the exact figures but I know the ratio is about right. It was something like this:
In the UK in the mid 80s it was estimated that smokers cost the NHS around £80 million a year. However, those same smokers were paying £600 million a year in tobacco taxes so they were a net benefit not a burden.
Have the deeming regs come into effect? And have any blends dissappeared because of them?