ironpeddler
Ye Old Newbie
I saw THIS ARTICLE on AOL's homepage about smoking myths. It was your basic boilerplate anti-smoking hysteria about cigarettes until I got to the part about cigars. They really dusted off some old disinformation to write that part...but what really got me was the insinuation that cigar company's marketing departments promote the belief to consumers that cigars (and chewing tobacco) are less harmful than cigarettes. I can't EVER remember reading ANYTHING along those lines...not even in conversations with ANY cigar company owners or executives.
Has anyone out there heard of such a thing being promoted by a cigar company?
We all know that the anti-smoking zealots are tying cigars to cigarettes in an attempt to get them to enjoy the same severe taxation as cigarettes...due in part to the decrease in cigarette sales and lost tax revenue....and then to suggest that the lack of taxation leads a person to smoke cigars instead of cigarettes as a healthier alternative is just ludicrous.
PS: I guess someone forgot to remind the author and the person he was quoting that most cigar smokers DON"T inhale while smoking.
One cigar = one pack of cigarettes...
Has anyone out there heard of such a thing being promoted by a cigar company?
We all know that the anti-smoking zealots are tying cigars to cigarettes in an attempt to get them to enjoy the same severe taxation as cigarettes...due in part to the decrease in cigarette sales and lost tax revenue....and then to suggest that the lack of taxation leads a person to smoke cigars instead of cigarettes as a healthier alternative is just ludicrous.
PS: I guess someone forgot to remind the author and the person he was quoting that most cigar smokers DON"T inhale while smoking.
One cigar = one pack of cigarettes...
