What the hell? I don't even smoke and find smokers annoying but what the hell? This isn't Russia. This isn't Russia, is it, Danny? No, this isn't Russia.

Number one, kids don't smoke because it tastes good. They smoke to be cool. Second, EVERYTHING about the tobacco industry is about targeting children. No one in their right mind starts smoking as an adult. The candy cigs, the cartoon camel that looks like a cock for some reason, the anti-smoking ads on tv that are so obnoxious they would have made me want to smoke if I was a kid. It's all about getting the kids roped in early, before they know how retarded smoking is.

I usually find slippery slope arguments annoying but this piece of legislation sounds dangerous.

They should ban all coolers and fruit flavoured beer.

Especially the beer. That's a travesty.

People really shouldn't worry about this to much, 99% of that flavored tobacco is emptied out of the cigar and deposited on the ground. The empty shell is then filled with a natural herbal product and THEN smoked. This City is going absolutely insane with laws outlawing products that are already illegal for the people they are "protecting".

Couldn't you take this to court and beat it? It seems like a city can't do this? I don't know.

Oh yeah,

Ennuipoet: People really shouldn't worry about this to much, 99% of that flavored tobacco is emptied out of the cigar and deposited on the ground. The empty shell is then filled with a natural herbal product and THEN smoked. This City is going absolutely insane with laws outlawing products that are already illegal for the people they are "protecting".

But if they don't know what's good for me, who does? I'm not smart enough to decide for myself.

So Menthol was allowed because that would have been racist?

I don't see why this is such a big deal.

Yeah, it's obvious that they are trying to hook kids into smoking, so why is it so bad to stop something that is just terrible for you?

You assume most new yorkers are smart.

This is the flaw in your argument.

The kids in my school all smoked Marlboro Reds or Camels anyway. Are they just trying to mess with the goth kids?

mitchcumstein1: Couldn't you take this to court and beat it? It seems like a city can't do this?

There's some signs of a resurgence of the idea among legal academics, but for the most part any "economic freedom" lawsuit is going to be DOA in the courts.

Ennuipoet: People really shouldn't worry about this to much, 99% of that flavored tobacco is emptied out of the cigar and deposited on the ground. The empty shell is then filled with a natural herbal product and THEN smoked. This City is going absolutely insane with laws outlawing products that are already illegal for the people they are "protecting".

In my experience, people usually use the regular ones for that, not the flavored ones. Peach and grape swishers are just atrocious.

fta

Do they honestly believe that the kids today are into rum-flavored cigars, or that they are sneaking into Nat Sherman to score the latest offering from CAO or Drew Estate?

no, I'm sure they're not, but I would be willing to be they are attracted by these:



which may be the point of the ban

Glad I don't live in NY. Seems completely asinine to include pipe tobacco.

/adult who enjoys the occasional pipe filled with vanilla cavendish.

Ennuipoet: People really shouldn't worry about this to much, 99% of that flavored tobacco is emptied out of the cigar and deposited on the ground. The empty shell is then filled with a natural herbal product and THEN smoked. This City is going absolutely insane with laws outlawing products that are already illegal for the people they are "protecting".

This. That tobacco inside the flavored cigar? That's not for smoking. Hopefully this just teaches the young'ins to flavor their own honey wraps.

I've always wondered if the farmers who grow tobacco for Dutch Masters and similar gas station cigars know how pointless their job is.

The Angry Hand of God: The kids in my school all smoked Marlboro Reds or Camels anyway. Are they just trying to mess with the goth kids?

If the picture in the article is anything to go by, they're trying to mess with people who like to smoke cigars named "Karma Sutra Splash."

Who names a cigar that anyway?

jesus farking christ I hate America sometimes, personal responsibility is farking gone. If they come for my Hookah I will cap a motherfarker

They can have my calabash when they pry it from my cold, dead, tobacco-stained hands.

Magorn: fta

Do they honestly believe that the kids today are into rum-flavored cigars, or that they are sneaking into Nat Sherman to score the latest offering from CAO or Drew Estate?

no, I'm sure they're not, but I would be willing to be they are attracted by these:



which may be the point of the ban

Maybe it's just growing up with a lot of snobby white trash, but if you smoked that stuff as a kid you got punched in the face. You didn't smoke things because of the cuteness of the packaging, you smoked whatever everyone else did to be cool.

It's not until college and a few classes in art history that kids start smoking that stuff.

And if there are exceptions to this, they are definitely in the minority.

Magorn: fta

Do they honestly believe that the kids today are into rum-flavored cigars, or that they are sneaking into Nat Sherman to score the latest offering from CAO or Drew Estate?

no, I'm sure they're not, but I would be willing to be they are attracted by these:



which may be the point of the ban

Those aren't tobacco products.

The Angry Hand of God: The kids in my school all smoked Marlboro Reds or Camels anyway. Are they just trying to mess with the goth kids?

Pretty sure. They found out we all just started smoking Djarum's cigarillos when we couldn't get our kreteks.

I heard that making things illegal stops teens from doing things. I mean we have so many other great examples to work with.

Magorn: fta

Do they honestly believe that the kids today are into rum-flavored cigars, or that they are sneaking into Nat Sherman to score the latest offering from CAO or Drew Estate?

no, I'm sure they're not, but I would be willing to be they are attracted by these:



which may be the point of the ban

Just so you know, Juicy Jays are wraps for weed. Sometimes blunt wraps, AFAIK.

/The More You Know

Tr0mBoNe: They should ban all coolers and fruit flavoured beer.

Especially the beer. That's a travesty.

You take away my Abita Purple Haze and it'll mean your head on a pike. Wine coolers though... that crap should be destroyed and all memory of it should be stricken from the historical record.

Children are more influenced by the mass of negativity towards smoking with the inundation of "Truth" ads and such legislation rekindling the notion of cigarettes being cool due to appearing rebellious, independent, whathaveyou. How are you supposed to be cool with a smiling, smoking cherry on the pack or needing to guise the tobacco with sugary flavors? Those are the same lame children who drink Smirnoff Ice and syrup-filled vodaks.

meh- they aren't messing with cigars, so delicious blunts are still safe. carry on.

Magorn: fta

Do they honestly believe that the kids today are into rum-flavored cigars, or that they are sneaking into Nat Sherman to score the latest offering from CAO or Drew Estate?

no, I'm sure they're not, but I would be willing to be they are attracted by these:



which may be the point of the ban

Aren't those just rolling papers, not tobacco products?

I still roll my eyes at the fact that I smoked Captain Black sweets and cherry's in high school.

anfthebamf: meh- they aren't messing with cigars, so delicious blunts are still safe. carry on.

well fark, nm. glad i'm in california most of the time...

I don't usually smoke, but when I do, I like to smoke BrandX cherry bubblegum cigarettes.

BrandX cherry bubblegum cigarettes, for non-smokers who like to smoke. . .like me.



Broktun

I liiiiikee the isle of Manhattan!
Smoke on your piiiiiiipe - and put that-in!
Ditch the hookahs girls, it's officer Krupke!

I also think that because of these sort of laws, one of two things will happen:

1) Weed will be even easier to find, or at least, more widespread
2) Some smart kid with a drivers license and nothing to do will make the 3 hour trip to Delaware to buy tax free cartons of these things and make a kill...I'll see you all in 6 hours.

"Flavor gladly blends with flavor;
Leaf answers leaf upon the bough;"

- 'Merlin II' by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1846)

Couldn't we just ban urban youth instead?

I'm going to miss menthol once they ban it.

/Weekend warrior.

#2: "Flavor gladly blends with flavor;
Leaf answers leaf upon the bough;"

- 'Merlin II' by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1846)

"Birthday sex
Birth day sex
Birthday sex"

- Birthday Sex by Jeremih (2009)

DNRTFA, but NYC's likely just getting ahead of the curve on this one. (pops)

not surprised it's Reason pushing it, the libertarians have been up in arms over this bit. correct me if i'm wrong on any of this, but the law serves three purposes:

1)gets rid of flavored cigs, which the anti-smoking lobbies have been attacking for years(feel-good legislation)

2)as Phillip Morris only makes menthol, full flavor, and tobacco blends, they're unaffected by this law, whilst their competition suffers the loss of several successful lines of product. note their strong support of the bill.(corporatist legislation)

3)bans flavored wraps, thus striking a blow against stoners to lazy to flavor their own wraps.(anti-weed legislation)

stickmangrit: 3)bans flavored wraps, thus striking a blow against stoners to lazy to flavor their own wraps.(anti-weed legislation)

Flavored wraps are too sticky and rarely burn smoothly or evenly.

Broktun: I don't usually smoke, but when I do, I like to smoke BrandX cherry bubblegum cigarettes.

Stay smokey my friends.

A danger for the chilrens that has been to long ignored by our repres...

Oh, look. Corruption, violence, cronyism and a tanked economy.

Um.. so, yeah.. tobacco!!!!

Damn, I am so glad I quit smoking 17 years ago, as I'd be plenty pissed off by this shiat. I was a pipe smoker for 24 years and one of my favorite tobaccos was a dark, black vanila flavored cavendish. It smelled like roasting marshmallows when lit.

OTOH, most of the popular, "drug store" flavored tobaccos (like that awful "Cherry Blend") were just crap, mostly due top the high moisture content to prolong shelf life, something on the order of 10% to 12%. Good quality tobacconist pipe tobacco was around 4%.

Of late, Des Moines just got its first "hookah bar", naturally up by Drake University. They've got all those cutsey flavored tobaccos including bubble gum flavored.

Yes, bubble gum flavored.

WTF?

Gaaaadam pussies.

I'm tempted to go in there and fire up one of their fru-fru hookahs with a nice bowlful of The Balkan Sobrannie and watch how fast that shiat clears the place out.

Dammit, if you are going to smoke, do it right.

Don't you mean "Tweed jackets twemble"? Common, subby, at least pretend to work with us here.

try that again shall we?(does not pop)

El Chode: stickmangrit: 3)bans flavored wraps, thus striking a blow against stoners to lazy to flavor their own wraps.(anti-weed legislation)

Flavored wraps are too sticky and rarely burn smoothly or evenly.

we're assuming legislators are smart. they're just barely bright enough to realize what the things are designed for, not bright enough to realize that they suck at this purpose and won't really be missed.

clear cellulose wraps are fun though.

Black n milds and newports are still kool.
Otherwise new york would have partied like it was april 1992.

El Chode: "Birthday sex
Birth day sex
Birthday sex"

- Birthday Sex by Jeremih (2009)

"Wanna make sex
Wanna make sex
Woah
Wanna make sex
Wanna make sex
Woah Woah
Wanna make sex
Make sex"

- Andrew WK (2001)

You can have my dutch masters when you pry them from my cold, dead hands.

/yeah, i know, cheap shiatty prewrapped cigars
//fark if they're not downright tasty and awesome.

Aarontology: Tr0mBoNe: They should ban all coolers and fruit flavoured beer.

Especially the beer. That's a travesty.

You take away my Abita Purple Haze and it'll mean your head on a pike. Wine coolers though... that crap should be destroyed and all memory of it should be stricken from the historical record.



Does not agree

So let me understand this. With the economy in the toilet, NYC has decided to put all the tobacco shops out of business?!

/Yeah... not a fan of this

Do the retard politicians ever farking learn? They have just now officially made this particular type of tobacco "cool" and now the number of kids actually using it will dramatically skyrocket.

NOW WHAT CAN I SMOKE TO GO WITH MY BOX OF WINE???