Well, pard, you best be packing your heat when you come to a bar or restaurant in Tennessee. But, uh, please leave your smokes at the door. We don’t want tobacco attitudes in our restaurants or bars, especially where children and alcohol are present. You didn’t hear? Well, the Tennessee Legislature just passed a...
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Well, here is hoping all you fathers out there had a great Father’s Day and that you were able to smoke your favorite pipe and tobacco in peace. I also hope that you picked up a new pipe or a new blend of tobacco to sample. It is nice when the family recognizes that...
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As promised, here are some thoughts on the Palmetto State as I live and breathe. I have been in South Carolina now for a few days. I don’t like what I see. In the trip from Tennessee to here, I saw only one tobacco field, but I did see planted field upon field of...
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I’ll be in the Palmetto State, South Carolina, of course, for a few days coming up. I like South Carolina, the state where I also earned a degree in English Lit back in the dark ages, and later during the Vietnam era found out about manhood at Fort Jackson, S.C. South Carolina was once...
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The news out of Ireland earlier this week is that smokers in that country have about had it with the bans. Now the antis are bellyaching that Ireland is “in danger of slipping back to pre-smoking ban levels because of the Government’s failure to implement a comprehensive anti-smoking strategy.” That warning was from the...
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There he goes again. U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen, the misguided politician who wants to raise your pipe tobacco taxes to the astronomical level of 775 percent, has shot his mouth off again. This time, however, he has some company. Seems that Cohen and Daniel Morris, who tracks tobacco production data at the Oregon Department...
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