Jim H
Frightening Fanatic of Horrible Cinema
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« Reply #16 on: August 20, 2022, 09:00:32 PM » |
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I've smoked a pipe in the past and enjoy cigars, but I very rarely smoke nowadays because my long term girlfriend has asthma and bad allergies - smoke really sets her off, even the smell bothers her. Sucks as I'd like to smoke a cigar maybe once a week. I've tried cigarettes, and also cigarillos that are basically cigarettes. Most cigarettes are pretty bad, though I kind of liked menthols. In total I've probably smoked a pack of cigarettes over 20 years, so not much. Oh, I've had cognac flavored cigarillos and irish cream flavored ones, more expensive versions, they were quite good. They're going to get banned soon, which I find kind of stupid as banning $3 a pop cigarillos will do nothing to curb youth smoking, which is the real target. They should just implement a minimum tax per stick on flavored ones, which will destroy the market of cheap flavored ones teens smoke.
Personally, I do enjoy smoking, and I like the taste and entire experience and ritual of smoking a cigar. Getting it out of the wrapper, feeling the texture, smelling it, cutting, getting it lit right, and slowly smoking it over like an hour.
I also think that for people like me, who smoke well under 1 a day and don't inhale smoke (some people do with cigars, which is super gross to me, but hey), the health effects are so marginal they don't even concern me - so small they can't be accurately measured, and stuff like just living in an urban environment is much worse from vehicular air pollution.
As far as banning it, I don't favor an outright ban, but I do think further restrictions of some type probably aren't a bad idea. I'm not sure what shape they would take. I also think the blanket targeting of nicotine products is a bit daft sometimes. Stuff like snus facing near equal restrictions to cigarettes is ridiculous, when we know snus is far less harmful. Expensive hand made cigars are also marginal in harm in comparison to a multitude of products that will never get banned, like alcohol - though really, that's more of an argument to ban alcohol than to not ban cigars I suspect.
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