Comments on: Stogie Guys Friday Sampler CLIII

By: Travis Lindsay

Travis Lindsay — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 20:02:47 +0000

@Mike: I've been seeing the opposite, there are less exemptions for tobacco-based businesses. As an example go over to Chief Hava's blog where he talks about a smoking ban in Galveston, Texas. TEXAS!!

By: Tony Palazzolo

Tony Palazzolo — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 07:14:32 +0000

The law they are currently proposing in St Louis City was copy and pasted directly from this document. I think in a way we were lucky, it was so extreme that it got everyone against it. Even some of the busybody dogooders here thought it was extreme.

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 15:45:28 +0000

If you look the original publication date of that "smoke-free fundamentals" document, that's been the playbook for at least a couple years. A lot of common-sense exemptions antis once easily accepted, like smoke shops, are now opposed.

The only good news, at least at the state level, is most bans passed recently still exempt tobacco-based businesses over their objections.

By: George E.

George E. — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 13:17:18 +0000

ESPN is showing what sounds like a fascinating documentary on Luis Tiant, former pitching great who's appeared in Stogie Guys with his El Tiante cigars, ( http://www.stogieguys.com/2007/08/08222007-cigar-... and his return trip to Cuba after 46 years. There's a review in today's WSJ. Show premieres in ENglish Monday at 10 p.m.

By: Charlie

Charlie — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 12:33:17 +0000

Reading through that anti-tobacco strategy PDF, I am beginning to think we are all living in a high-tech version of Puritan New England. My only question is this: when Jonathan Edwards and the other elders show up at my door to drag me down to the public square for the witch trial, can I at least have one final smoke before I am dunked in the river? Sheesh. Maybe if Cuba turns democratic in the next 10 years we can all seek a colony down there.