This is wrong on so many levels...

  

Spot the difference: How today's airbrushing PC censors decided Churchill could do without his cigar 

I have no comments to add to this.  It speaks for itself.

   

Fight Terrorism - Abolish Tobacco Taxes!

    
Tobacco Taxes Finance Terrorism

Wow! Unintended consequences of raising tobacco taxes? Imagine that!!!

   

I miss President Reagan.

    
I wish this was a bad, bad joke.  I remember when adults were in the White House.  I miss the leadership of President Reagan so very, very much.  This sad response to the oil spill speaks for itself.  A petulant child comes to mind.

Obama Seeking "Ass To Kick" Over Oil Spill


   

What are the Greeks thinking?

   
No-butts smoking ban starts in September

You have a country that is financially collapsing and this is how the Greek government is spending its time and resources.

 "As of September 1, Greeks will only be able to smoke outdoors, according to a draft law presented yesterday by the government which bans smoking in bars, restaurants and businesses."

Nice to know there is a crazier government out there than our own.  Taxing and destroying a lawful industry in a time of economic crisis/decline is just plain nuts.  It really is getting frustrating always having to point out the obvious.
 
 

  

Loophole my eye!

   
From Fred Brown at the Pipe Smokers Intelligencer.

The Loophole Effect

Fred has been reporting on Cohen and his pipe tobacco tax increase for some time now. The sad part of all this is that if congress does pass this through the pipe tobacco industry will be damaged severely and thousands will lose their livelihoods all in the name of squeezing out more tax money to feed an ever expanding government. At what point does the pendulum starting swinging back toward freedom?  This really sucks. 

Tobacco loophole in child health law costs $250M

According the above article "the Obama administration has been working for a year to clarify the difference between pipe and rolling tobacco."  Let us hope that some sanity prevails here and what we see is a clarification between the two instead of a tax increase that would destroy an entire industry.