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Post by trailboss on Apr 24, 2019 23:47:29 GMT -5
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Post by trailboss on Apr 24, 2019 23:50:30 GMT -5
And, an interesting 3 part read on the FDA's assault on the pipe smoker. I could not agree more... hobbynothabit.blog/
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Post by trailboss on Apr 25, 2019 0:26:22 GMT -5
From part 3 of the above mentioned story...I forgot to add it.
The article goes on tell what took place in his home with federal agents.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 25, 2019 3:45:08 GMT -5
Charlie, some real good reading, appreciate the post....thanks much!!!
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Post by bonanzadriver on Apr 25, 2019 6:38:47 GMT -5
And, an interesting 3 part read on the FDA's assault on the pipe smoker. I could not agree more... hobbynothabit.blog/The gift that keeps on giving. The ridiculous overreach that was not only authorized, but encouraged, during this same time frame is something we should all be concerned about. "DEEMING" that a piece of wood and acrylic is somehow "A Tobacco Product" is as ludicrous as "Deeming" that CO2 is a "Toxic Pollutant" that must be "Regulated". Reading here that FDA Brownshirts absolutely violated the 4th Amendment Rights of this individual is sickening to me. The fact that a group of Bureaucrats, lower ranking government functionaries that were all "appointed or hired", not Duly Elected by you and me, were able to perpetrate such an assault on the Freedoms of United States Citizens, let alone the Constitution of the United States, is definitely a dark time for our country. Thanks for posting. Hope more folks become aware of this insidious behavior of many of the Three Letter Organizations out there.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 25, 2019 9:12:13 GMT -5
Hung out with Jeff Allen from the article at Apex Cigar Lounge week before the TAPS show. Such a great guy. I had no idea the FDA did that shenanigans to him.
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Post by oldcajun123 on Apr 25, 2019 9:39:15 GMT -5
Our children will never know the joy of really being free, I rode as a child on the back seat partition looking up I was in my space capsule, Mom and Dad smoking in the car. Dad had a pool hall, smoke filled, I had a milk crate to climb on to play pool. People spit on the sidewalk, no one was hauled in for that, talk was plain and simple, ethnic slurs were everyday language. When the Government came on your land they better have good reason, younger generation doesn’t know or care how much their personal freedoms are being eroded. At school you acted up, principal wore your arse up, you got home parents wore your arse up. Now parents want to sue, vaccines were required to go to school, now we have a measles epidemic because our intellectall parents think they know more than the Drs. Common sense is gone, I shudder at the FDA Officals entering Mr Allen’s house like the Brown Shirts in Germany.
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Post by orley on Apr 25, 2019 10:55:33 GMT -5
I totally agree with Brad! ^^ Now when I smell tobacco smoke of any kind in a business or common area, it makes me nostalgic of days gone by. As far as I'm concerned, the government can tell me what I can and can't smoke, and where I can smoke when they start paying for my medical bills!
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Post by stone on Apr 25, 2019 11:14:51 GMT -5
I don't see on-line tobacco going away but possibly having the daylights taxed out of it. Unless the government can get their healthy cut first, it simply doesn't get by unscathed. I think to end the on-line industry is unrealistic because there must be a driving force behind it to line politicians pockets and I can't think what that could be unless someone has a market cornered on the new B&M industry? Take for example the gas can debacle. Anyone who has bought a gas can in the last ten years asks "how in the hell could anyone think this is a good idea?" The new gas cans leak quarts where the old ones leaked drops and everyone knows it; but here is the key. Some entity saw the opportunity to make 10's of millions of dollars by making everyone go out and buy a new gas can ...... so they slip the politicians a few measly million and viola, stupid law is in place forevermore regardless of the fact that it is an utter mockery of the original intent.
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Post by roadsdiverged on Apr 25, 2019 12:51:47 GMT -5
The dreaded gas can!! I absolutely hate the new ones.
A few months back I was taking the trash off, sitting right beside the big dumpster were 2 old gas cans. JACKPOT!!
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Post by Wolfman on Apr 25, 2019 19:28:37 GMT -5
Did anyone happen to notice that the original recipes for Brown Clunee, Old Gowrie, and Hal’ O the Wynd called for only Virginia tobaccos? Also the Scottish blends used Syrian Latakia, Dubec (?) and red Virginia. If time travel is ever invented, I’m going to Perth in the early 1900s.
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Post by Wolfman on Apr 25, 2019 19:43:50 GMT -5
What a nightmare! Another example of government overreaching. Thanks for posting trailboss
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Post by monbla256 on Apr 25, 2019 21:24:39 GMT -5
..... If time travel is ever invented, I’m going to Perth in the early 1900s. No need to go that far back, Rattray's blends were still made in Scotland up to the early '70s before they got bought and moved to Germany! I got one of those brochures back when they were being given away at B&Ms that sold their 'baccy. I smoked a lot of Red Rapparee back then when it was still made in Scotland and bought a tin of it again two years ago and it was a shadow of it's former self. The new stuff is a nice smoke, just not the same as the older Scotish blended .
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Post by Wolfman on Apr 25, 2019 22:09:28 GMT -5
Two years ago I was fortunate to get a tin of Black Malory from the early 1970s. I enjoyed it - But I could barely detect any Latakia. I guess that’s to be expected after 40+ years.
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