I found this article from the Google Alert I have set up for Cigars and the first thing that came to mind is, this can't be happening... Not in my Country. Not in the Good Ol' US of A. When are we as a nation going to wake up?! Read the following article and let me know what your opinion... 'nuff said.
Lawmakers, staff pan smoke-free Congress
By: Anne Schroeder Mullins
Jan 15, 2008 06:00 AM EST
Updated: January 16, 2008 08:11 AM EST
A new rule banning the sale of tobacco products on Capitol grounds has got Hill smokers, smoking mad.
A new rule banning the sale of tobacco products on House of Representatives grounds has got Capitol Hill smokers — we hate to say it — smoking mad.
“The health nannies’ arbitrary ban on a legal and heavily taxed product bodes ill for the future marketing of Mountain Dew and Moon Pies,” said Rep. Thaddeus G. McCotter, an infuriated Republican, and smoker, from Michigan.
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