New EU Laws and the impact on our passion

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As you guys probably know there are some onerous new EU regulations coming into force on November 19th.

How does that affect us?

Well, I just got off the phone with Dave at Sharrow Mills (Wilsons) and they will be discontinuing 70 of their 97 flavors. You read that correctly.

Worse: ALL the F&T tubes, both the 25g and the 50g, will disappear and the flavors offered in the rinky dink little tins will be reduced to a couple of the best sellers.

According to Dave it will be a very similar story with SG and GH snuffs, though I have yet to confirm. I will let you know.

I spent a long time trying to convince him that he could keep selling to me “for export only” which means that I would at least be able to continue selling outside the EU, but he did not seemed convinced. I do have another evil plan up my sleeve which I will share at a later date if I can pull it off.

However for now we have to assume the worst. 

I am waiting for a list of the discontinued snuffs which I will post here. We have a very small window of opportunity to stock up on soon to be non-existent snuffs. He will no longer be able to ship them to me after the 19th and they all have to be sold by May17th of next year.

I would greatly appreciate your input as to what you are interested in (when I post the list) so I can put in a sensible last order. Should I get any discount, I will pass it along to you guys. I consider it ‘our’ discount for being stand up folks who are helping Wilsons’ out with their problem of having redundant barrels of snuff sitting in their warehouse.

The only bright side of this is that Roderick (Toque) and I have had several lengthy conversations about this and he will have no problem continuing to supply me for export.We will do this until they tell us we can’t. 

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news. Trust me though, I will find a way round this if there is one.

Dave

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Gad damn. That’s some really bad news.

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Damn.

I’m not gonna be in position to stock-up until January at the soonest.

Damn small minded politicians and their paternalistic views.  In a world ripped with war, famine, and even slavery still existing in places, how did a legal agricultural crop get demonized and have such a focus of prohibitory law?

Why must tobacco loving ADULTS be treated like criminals?

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Didnt the UK leave the EU?

Whats the point of Brexit if your still bound to their corrupt nonsensical laws.

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Here’s the list:

Wilsons List

Take a gander and let me know what you would like.

Remember, even though the F&T are listed there will not be any more of the cool tubes. If you want those I will have to order them next week.

Thanks for any and all input.

Dave

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F&T High Dry Toast is the top thing I’m going to want to get a large quantity of before the supply runs out.

Are the mills hoping to return to snuff manufacture once England exits the EU?

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Well at least my precious CoC and Best SP seem safe from the ban.  What’s with all the name changes are they not allowed to name them after foods and such anymore?  Raspberry is now Ripple , menthol is cool, honey is bee, licorice is root and so forth. 

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They dont keep the bulk in stock. You order it and they get it from wos then send it to you. Done went thru this awhile back.

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I don’t understand. What law is this? 

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So what’s gonna happen with F&T High Dry Toast?

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As it’s an EU-wide thing, would it be safe to assume that the snuff mills in Germany and other EU nations will be equally impacted?

Also, could someone describe the most important specifics of the new law?

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And how is this going to affect all the Toque products? 

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How is this going to affect all the Indian snuffs?

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Is anybody going to buy the recipes of a lot of these discontinued brands, it would be a horrible shame to loose these snuffs forever!!!

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This makes me sad!

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I cannot wait for us to leave the EU but is the EU really to blame for this? Seems to me the discontinued snuffs are what I suspect won’t be the best sellers. I was devastated when I first read this last night, but now I see the lists don’t think it will affect me apart from Vanilla and Vanilla Ice.

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Suppose I am really pondering whether this simply the management of decline?

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No mention on Camphor and Mild on either list.

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So it looks like they’re no longer allowed to use words in the names that imply natural things, like “raspberry” or “flower” or “honey”.  That sounds like legislature.  

But why the discontinuations?  Is there something about the law that says they can only produce a certain amount of flavors?  Or are they just discontinuing the unprofitable ones of their own accord?

And no more 25g or 50g tubes of F&T.  But… there will still be 25g tins of WoS?  So the problem isn’t the quantity, it’s just the container?  Again, is that legislature or just cost-optimizing on WoS’s part? And if they can sell WoS snuffs in 25g tins, couldn’t they also sell F&T in 25g tins?

So many questions.

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I think F&T need to comply with bigger health warning signs, so that’s probably why they’re getting rid of those tubes. I think that could be sorted with a bigger sticker, but God knows if there are other reasons.