I once saw a movie in which an actor was smoking a cigar. After the movie I went home and the next morning I woke up with lung cancer.
It’s getting to the point in this country where a good thing is being taken to a very bad extreme. I know the risks associated with smoking, especially long-term, habitual cigarette smoking. My mother smoked as long as I knew her and longer (a Marlboro woman) and she died of emphysema at the age of 69. It wasn’t her only problem, but it was the one that finally killed her. I hate the fact that one of my sons has been smoking for 10 years and hasn’t figured out how to stop. So I’m not making light of a serious health issue. I’m just making the point that things are getting out of control.
I like my pipe and I would like to know that I will be able to purchase pipe tobacco in the future without having to register with the ATF as a hazard to society. I don’t hold a lot of hope that the future will be bright for pipe smokers. Cigar smokers are already a threatened species with bills before Congress that would virtually wipe out an industry. I very much enjoy smoking a cigar once in a while and support the efforts of the group Cigar Rights of America (http://www.cigarrights.org/aboutus). If you want to preserve your right to smoke a cigar and a pipe, you might want to sign the Cigar Rights of America petition.
