Cigar Rights of America and SCHIP

[CigarMan Andy]

I spent a wonderful evening with some old, and some new friends. Friday night was the grand opening of Bethesda Tobacco in Maryland. We had a triple event. It was the official opening of the Lounge, it was also to celebrate Litto Gomez's birthday, and we talked about SCHIP and the Cigar Rights of America.

Litto and Robert Levin, Pres of Holts, spoke about the SCHIP and legislature going on in the US pertaining to Cigar Smokers, and the inhalation of tobacco if they keep on this path. Maryland is trying to impose an additional 90% OTP tax (Other Tobacco Products) on cigars and pipe tobacco. In Virginia, there is a ban on smoking in public, including cigar shops, except in "Cigar Lounges". These things are happening all over the USA.

We as cigar smoker are loosing our rights. I urge all of our members to join the CRA Cigar Rights of America. There is a link below. Litto and Robert asked us to help and we are planning a CRA fund raiser later this year, around June, to help raise awareness and support of the CRA to protect our right to purchase and smoke cigars. The first event to be held in Washington DC. Guests to include Litto Gomez, Robert Levin, and others to be announced.

I will post Gauging Interest later as plans come together. Please check out the link below, and join. It is only $35 for membership. Some of us pay that for one cigar.

I don't mean to sound political, but I love cigars and my rights are being trampled as are yours.

For more information on what we can do, you can click on the CRA banner.

 

[KusoJijii]

Iowa Smoke Free Bill was passed here beginning of last year, I fought it all the way and told everyone that sat by idly that there were ignorant. People asked me what I cared about smoking (since at the time I was not a cigar smoker) and I told them it wasn't about smoker's rights it was about my rights as a business owner to decide what was policy in my own business.

The funny thing about SCHIP is that so many people backed it because of funding from tobacco sales going to "children's" health care, but these are the same people who are helping to pass tobacco bans in states across the country. I wonder if SCHIP will fall short on funding because of a decrease in tobacco sales from economy/SCHIP taxes and the smoking bans being enacted country wide?

 

[Yeahthatsme]

Iowa Smoke Free Bill was passed here beginning of last year, I fought it all the way and told everyone that sat by idly that there were ignorant. People asked me what I cared about smoking (since at the time I was not a cigar smoker) and I told them it wasn't about smoker's rights it was about my rights as a business owner to decide what was policy in my own business.

The funny thing about SCHIP is that so many people backed it because of funding from tobacco sales going to "children's" health care, but these are the same people who are helping to pass tobacco bans in states across the country. I wonder if SCHIP will fall short on funding because of a decrease in tobacco sales from economy/SCHIP taxes and the smoking bans being enacted country wide?

I remember reading in an article that there would need to be about 22 million new smokers to properly fund SCHIP.