NYC Banning ALL flavored tobacco?

[joncaputo]

NYC considers flavored tobacco ban

[Jack Straw]

Yes, because only kids like things that are flavored.

[zeavran1]

This is getting silly. I have yet to run into a minor smoking a flavored cigar unless it's for a blunt. If they ban the flavors they'll just get regular blunts anyway. The only thing they'll stop is the real, over 21 cigar smokers that really enjoy smokes like Acid and the other flavors.

[tx_tuff]

That will just hurt the retailers in the city limits, it will not stop people living within the city limits from buying them elsewhere.

[Jack Straw]

Yeah all it will do is reduce the money the city makes off taxes.

Also, it should put every single hookah bar out of business.

[RJpuffs]

Originally Posted by Jack Straw

Yeah all it will do is reduce the money the city makes off taxes.

Also, it should put every single hookah bar out of business.

I think thats the whole point, shuting down the hookah bars. Doomberg Bloomberg is a self avowed crusader of goodness that has a problem with anyone having any fun in this city. He pretty much put bars out of business by banning smoking in them. No smoking in "city parks", half the freakin' city is considered a "park", from the sidewalk triangles with trees planted, to the beach side barbeque lots. So less inmates will munch on un-healthy (according to his Doomness) bbq meat. They've been painting bicycle lanes on the other half of the city, we have no roads to drive on, insufficient parking spaces, but we have a hundred miles of bike lanes that are largely unused. And we can't smoke anywhere. Hope they don't elect him for the 3rd term (which, incidentally, is another Einstein-move by the City Council).

[Redheadz]

Is this ban on small cigarillo sized smokes or also on full size sticks such as Acids and Java and the like?
The online retailers will see the boost and I'm sure someone else in the city will wind up covering the lost tax revenues.

[Jack Straw]

Apparently this passed yesterday, on a 46-1 vote.

WNYC - News - New York City Bans Flavored Tobacco

[Alpedhuez55]

I would be concerned about Pipe Tobaccos as well.

[Jack Straw]

Originally Posted by Alpedhuez55

I would be concerned about Pipe Tobaccos as well.

Yeah I was wondering about that. Nat Sherman's will have to bin half their famous blends!

[joncaputo]

Originally Posted by Jack Straw

Apparently this passed yesterday, on a 46-1 vote.

WNYC - News - New York City Bans Flavored Tobacco

I want to offer my congrats to the 1 guy who has a brain

[denarok]

nothing surprises me when it comes to the nanny states of NYC and bloomberg, it is the slippery slope,


eventually they will find sugar evil, or another product, next it will be flavored liquor


what does this mean to pipe tobacco? i wonder how this will affect nat sherman and barclay rex?

[Depa]

It doesn't even seem to be about protecting people from the "ZOMG HORRIBLE" effects of smoking but an attempt to curb the smoking of pot. Cigar aficionados are simply a casualty of the government's war on drugs.

The ban doesn't appear to apply to hooka... oh the irony.

I'm expecting a ban on the sale of rolling papers and individual cigars in the near future.

[andrewsutherland2002]

Originally Posted by Alpedhuez55

I would be concerned about Pipe Tobaccos as well.

Originally Posted by Jack Straw

Yeah I was wondering about that. Nat Sherman's will have to bin half their famous blends!

Anybody know if flavored pipe tobacco is on the banned list in NYC?

Glad I don't live there.

[MrJerry]

Originally Posted by joncaputo

I want to offer my congrats to the 1 guy who has a brain

You beat me to it!