Not Sure if this should be OT or not…but…i’ll move it if the mods think yes I’ve been reading the pact-act-up-again thread….This is a follow-on question from that Just out of curiosity. Let’s just say for one moment, they did ban ALL tobacco products. Probably a lot of people on this forum don’t do coke or other class A drugs because it illegal. So…what would you do about tobacco? …Would you except it and say “our government knows what’s best for our health” Or …would you get a life-time stock, money permitting and say “**** you” ?
Well, I’d have enough to last me 4 lifetimes!
yeah i bet 
Personally i’d be in favour of a solution along the lines of that used during the French revolution.
I would quickly find a new career path…as a tobacco smuggler. That or leave the country ASAP
@tom…I bet…how I’d love to be in your shoes!
I’ll go to the nearest school and buy snuff from the local drugs dealer! Banning something is NOT the way to stop people doing it. They just find a new way to have it. In the past alcohol was banned in some countries and so what? People who drink continued drinking even more than before. And that lasted long enough politicians to realize that thay are doing a BIG favor to the black market. FUNNY! I’m taking a big pinch for that!
I’d continue to use it. Classes (or schedules as they are here, Schedule I equating to Class A, Schedula III to Class C, etc) have never stopped me before if something interested me enough. Personally, I think in some ways it might be a good thing healthwise for people. I mean, you don’t see too many stoners smoking 20-40 joints a day simply because you couldn’t afford it consistently, unless you were loaded. So people would cut back and it might have some health benefits for us. But, I don’t relish paying $20 a gram for tobacco, nor do I like the idea of having to go to court and saying “Yes, I’m a snuser and a snuffer. Yep, I know it’s illegal. Nope, don’t care, without my nicotine, I’d have ripped your bloody head off five minutes ago you pretentious loon.” I think the government will try to seriously limit tobacco use, but they’d be dumb to ban it totally. First, they’d lose all the revenue from taxes, which are enormous sums of cash. I mean, the war on drugs here is already costly and ineffective. To put it in perspective, in the four semesters I spent at university in Maine, I knew 17 dealers just on campus. Applying national rates of usage to the school, that’s one dealer for every 55 smokers, just on a campus in a backwoods town in Maine. If something that is punished more severely than cocaine in the US can be that common on a tiny school campus (granted, I believe more people use it in Maine than in the US on average, and they only press criminal charges if you’re caught with more than 1.25 ounces) in the middle of nowhere, imagine how much of a hard time they would have stopping tobacco. I know it’s more of a hypothetical question, but I just wanted to point out how impractical it would be. It can also be stored for much longer lengths of time than other drugs, without decrease in potency if properly maintained, and in many cases can increase in value over time. If enforced, it would probably build up a prison population that simply couldn’t be supported by tax paying citizens who were working and didn’t use tobacco. Hell, they banned Cuban tobacco, but that doesn’t mean I can’t get either Cuban snus or Cuban cigars delivered by the unwitting postal workers right to my door. They could theoretically ban tobacco, but I feel like lobbyist would challenge the constitutionality of such a ban, giving me more time to build up my already formidable horde. I could easily stock up for the next four years or so if I invested the money in it, and see where things went from there, but I’m not too concerned.
When I was a boy they had prohibition where I lived. You could call any cab driver and have a bottle delivered to your door. My first date (I was a teenager), we went to the bootlegger and bought a bottle of scotch. I thought drinking half a fifth and fondling each other was what a date was all about. Tobacco in some form will be available, but the quality and selection would suffer. Some of the booze from back in those days was not at all good for you. I heard of people going blind or getting very sick. No telling what they would cut tobacco with. Oh, and the prices would go up.
Never happen…there’s too much money passing hands If it did, I would just switch to using something legal, like medical reefer.
There is a fellow near where I live, who’s dad was a bootlegger in the prohibition era. He learned his fathers recipies and methods and still distills his own spirits. A 5 minute drive along the Juniata River and $10 will get you a mason jar full of stuff that will hurt you in ways you never even imagined!! I think the same thing would happen if tobacco were banned. Bootlegging is almost as much of an American tradition when were are prohibited something as tobacco istelf is!
Sniff-easies, high load capacity super fast sleeper cars, M1-A1’s, and gentlemen in suits.
I’d join any local Gestapo in order to infiltrate the evil tobacco gangs and corrupt. And unlike in movies, the bad guys never get caught. Win-win situation.
Considering the amounts of tax dollars collected, the premise of a total ban is very hard to imagine. The direction my country appears to be going, tax and spend more than collected so tax again, I think supports that idea. Touch wood. If the US were to see a total ban, then yes, I’d be a criminal. No qualms about that!
BBC said on yesterdays news that someone, I think Norway is taking steps to ban all tobacco.
What are the chances that you would actually have some snuff with you while ending up on a deserted island?
@Nacham If any place does do it, I wouldn’t be surprised if it was Norway first! @juxtaposer Desert Island Snuff: I think you’re found a name for a new snuff
This is how McCarthy almost got away with it.
Heck, if I’m gonna end up on a desert island, might as well mix in a little yopo and go crazeeeee…
Bhutan tried to ban tobacco back in 2004. They gave up because it created a black market. Quelle surprise !