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,

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

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.

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

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

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

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.