Time to Wad the Drawers
August 11th 2010 Posted at Breaking News, General News, Tobacco Politics
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Don't Tread on Me
If you haven’t done so, you need to click on over to PipesMagazine.com and read the piece on the new federal proposal to distinguish pipe tobacco from roll your own tobacco.
We are trying to get one solid voice to tear down the walls of injustice and we need your help.
If we fail in this endeavor, you just may kiss your favorite pipe tobacco goodbye as it will be taxed out of existence. This is not extremist or frantic Freddy. This is the truth as it is being provided by the TTB (The Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau).
The TTB is soliciting comments that must be received by September 20, 2010. They are looking to define just what constitutes pipe tobacco and what is RYO.
We all know what pipe tobacco is and is not, but apparently the federal government doesn’t. Imagine that? We pay millions in our tax dollars to conduct experiments on the mating habits of rare bats, but we are not sure what constitutes pipe tobacco, a product that has been in America before there was an America.
But, I digress.
PSI and PipesMagazine.com are working to bring attention to this issue. In its latest edition, PM has laid out the problem very well. Go to PipesMagazine.com to find out what the dust-up is all about and what can be done. Then go to PSI’s Tobacco Talk and check out Pipe Tobacco vs. R.Y.O. Cigarettes. We provide the entire issue from the TTB.
Here is hoping that you will take this seriously and get your drawers in a wad. If the pipe smoking community turns its cheek, sticks its head in the sand, walks off into the sunset, it will live to see the end of pipe tobacco as we know it today.
Selah
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The most disturbing part of the article is the endnote, “selah”. For the Biblically challenged: It may take a lot of time but be certain that eventually it will in fact happen. As water drips onto a piece of stone, drop by drop, eventually the water will bore a hole through the rock. You may not live to see it, but it will, happen. Higgaion (Biblical Hebrew, for “Meditate on it”. And don’t forget to be smoking your pipe, when you do.)
Simply puffing and thinking.., and thinking, and puffing.., with all of the government squandering of tax revenues on truly items that only a bribe could secure… Isn’t it high time that pipe smokers got some of that money, in a structured organization, perhaps to see the error of our ways as compared to every other complainer’s vice, and report back to the People, and Congress… We could call it the Ecclestiastic Pipe Smokers Ethics Committee on American Intelligence and Integrity. It would be federally funded and permit pipe smokers to sound off and return vollies to all the panic stricken critics we have. What say you? Hmmm.