Rather interesting story about Lorilland’s attempts to keep the FDA from banning menthol cigarettes. I just wonder that if the FDA comes down on menthol cigarettes could mentholated snuffs be on the hit list, on down the line? I’m quite passionate about my mentholated snuff… http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204685004576045862249685694.html
I wouldn’t worry about it quite yet; the anti-tobacco zealots are always screaming about dip and chew being candy flavored (cherry Skoal, etc) and being marketed towards kids, but they haven’t yanked that off the shelves yet. If this keeps up, in another 10 years pot and cocaine will be cheap; we’ll be too busy smuggling menthol crystals, bergamot oil and Roderick’s secret formula for Cheese & Bacon, since those will all be FDA Schedule I narcotics. Heeeeee…
Already done boy! You should not be able to get any menthol snuff anywhere in the United States of America. And now your personal importation of such snuffs is under a watchful eye. But James S. does have a point.
Isn’t it odd that we need to protect African Americans from smokeing while apperantly nothing wrong with Asains, people of Latin descent, honkies, gremlins, cats, dogs, or anyone else having cigarettes marketed at them. I mean it could just be me but there seems like a whole lot of wrong from many angles on that. I mean seriously they might as well say that black people are children. I guess they don’t need my respect.
Heh, we’ve already been unable to get menthol snuff anywhere due to sheer lack of domestic availability (unless you count RR Mills Checkerberry, which is excellent but by no means a menthol). Like many things, these new FDA regs and PACT suck, but the cops will never catch up to us bad guys. We’ll buy from overseas, we’ll mail it here, if necessary I will fly over to the Sharrow Mills, the Poschl factory, Roderick’s house, and Jaap Bes’s windmills and bring back casks of the stuff on a schooner and call it SP (S’s Prize).
lorrilard ( sp ) already brought out a brand of newports called newports non menthol … if they did ban menthol cigs i think within a week you would be able to buy menthol filters you slip over the regular filter
yeah there would be a way around it. Real easy like.
I remember a few years ago they had Newport Reds, but only down south. Not bad, but I roll my own these days so…nah not worth spending the six bucks on…
Menthol crystals are easy enough to obtain, and perfectly legal. They’re used quite a bit by spas and such for aromatherapy. Just grind them up and add them to your favorite non-mentholated snuff.