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<blockquote data-quote="MisterE" data-source="post: 372079" data-attributes="member: 820"><p>I also think it bears mentioning that, as pipe enthusiasts, we have to consider cigarette, cigar, and e-cigarette folk as one and the same, even if we ourselves tend to make distinctions. We're all in the the same fight. If we let one of them go down, we'll end up being next. Unfortunately, tobacco is tobacco is tobacco (even e-juice) so far as the antis are concerned. </p><p></p><p>Some of you will remember few years ago, when cigarettes were beginning to be punitively taxed. The whole community stood by and let them take the hit. Most clung to the notion that pipes are <em>different</em> so therefore we're not in danger. The cigarette guys quickly started labeling RYO as "pipe tobacco" as a loophole to avoid taxation and stay afloat. It worked for a while because pipe tobacco was still considered different. Unfortunately, the feds caught on to all that potential revenue and are now reclassifying pipe tobacco as cigarettes. </p><p></p><p>We did that to ourselves, gentlemen.</p><p></p><p>We can't consider <em>any </em>tobacco group as different. It always, always, <em>always </em>comes back to bite.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MisterE, post: 372079, member: 820"] I also think it bears mentioning that, as pipe enthusiasts, we have to consider cigarette, cigar, and e-cigarette folk as one and the same, even if we ourselves tend to make distinctions. We're all in the the same fight. If we let one of them go down, we'll end up being next. Unfortunately, tobacco is tobacco is tobacco (even e-juice) so far as the antis are concerned. Some of you will remember few years ago, when cigarettes were beginning to be punitively taxed. The whole community stood by and let them take the hit. Most clung to the notion that pipes are [i]different[/i] so therefore we're not in danger. The cigarette guys quickly started labeling RYO as "pipe tobacco" as a loophole to avoid taxation and stay afloat. It worked for a while because pipe tobacco was still considered different. Unfortunately, the feds caught on to all that potential revenue and are now reclassifying pipe tobacco as cigarettes. We did that to ourselves, gentlemen. We can't consider [i]any [/i]tobacco group as different. It always, always, [i]always [/i]comes back to bite. [/QUOTE]
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