From the No More Tobacco Taxes blog comes another rail against the hypocrisy and rampant smokerism that is being espoused by the New York City Council. And people say California is bad! Stop The Insanity New York! From the city that brought you the smoking ban in parks and other public places under the guise of protecting children from SEEING people smoking comes a new low in their erstwhile condemnation of the LEGAL smoking public. In late October, the NYC City Council voted to ban sale of ALL flavored tobacco...

We recently received a copy of the following letter that NATO (National Association of Tobacco Outlets) has sent to New York City Council members about a proposed ban on flavored tobaccos. This is just another example of government trying to stamp out our fully-legal passion for the leaf under the guise of it being “for the children.” Don’t get me started on this justification… Anyway, please read this and pass along to any New Yorkers you know and have them speak up and stop the insanity! July 24, 2009 Proposed Flavored Cigarette...

Don’t let the popular press, and television in particular, fool you. This isn’t just about cigarette smokers and their “drain on the healthcare system”. It isn’t “about the children” as the sound bites might indicate. What it is about is the unfair taxation of a very small portion of the population (less than 10% by some estimates) to fund a program that affects ALL of the citizens of the US. The following is a press release from the National Association of Tobacco Outlets advising all responsible consumers of tobacco products to make their voices heard on this subject. It...

Now this is a mug you probably won’t see on the front of the other cigar magazine’s out there, although the header on Dan Piraro’s blog BizarroBlog certainly looks like out-takes from a magazine cover shoot. Know his sense of humor (to call it off-beat is a serious understantement) one wonders if he is a brother of the leaf or just poking fun. The cartoon shown on the page at left talking about “Naughty Potato” shows a character, obviously hell-bent on displaying his Smokerism being restrained by a bystander who explains away the actions of...

When Smokerism wasn’t rampant and you could find such fine commercials on TV.

ACTION ALERT! Call and Urge Your U.S. RepresentativeTo Sustain President Bush’s VetoOf the SCHIP Bill! On October 3rd, President Bush Vetoed the SCHIP BillWith Excessive Cigarette and Tobacco Tax Increases The Democrat Leadership in the U.S. House has ScheduledA Vote to Try and Override the Veto on October 18th You Need To Call Their U.S. Representative Now and Urge Them toSustain the President’s Veto of the SCHIP Bill! __________________________________ Call Either of the Following Toll-Free Numbers to Be Directly Connected with Your U.S. Representative’s Office: 1-877-857-8074 or 1-866-527-4494 CALLS ARE...

Our friends over at The Stogie Guys have a great blog post today about smoking bans hitting 007 and the notoriously smoky French. "In an interview with Parade Magazine, Daniel Craig, the current 007 and star of Casino Royale, expressed his frustration with the movie's producers for prohibiting Bond from smoking cigars in the film “in order not to send a bad message to young fans.” Noting the obvious hypocrisy, Craig quipped: "But here's the reality, I can blow off someone's head at close range and splatter blood, but I can't light a good Cuban." That is so...