there is no way you can tell me that a strawberry cigarette from camel sold at a gas station for twenty cents each Jesus crap, I had no idea such cigarettes even existed. The articles I'd read either only mentioned cloves exclusively, or cloves plus bidis. I didn't realise Camel was in on the game. (Perhaps their flavored cigs weren't getting the market share they'd hoped? After all, it's easier to agree to cut off your own finger if you've still got nine left.)
My understanding of the legal status of cigars versus cigarettes were that cigars differ in terms of the rolling paper and tobacco. And again, if Djarum etc. can circumvent the legislation by selling clove "cigars" that replace regular rolling paper with tobacco leaves (as in the article Nick linked above), then the U.S. gov't has still shot itself in the foot, because I imagine tobacco leaves are worse for you health-wise than rolling paper.
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on 2009-10-01 07:27 am (UTC)Jesus crap, I had no idea such cigarettes even existed. The articles I'd read either only mentioned cloves exclusively, or cloves plus bidis. I didn't realise Camel was in on the game. (Perhaps their flavored cigs weren't getting the market share they'd hoped? After all, it's easier to agree to cut off your own finger if you've still got nine left.)
My understanding of the legal status of cigars versus cigarettes were that cigars differ in terms of the rolling paper and tobacco. And again, if Djarum etc. can circumvent the legislation by selling clove "cigars" that replace regular rolling paper with tobacco leaves (as in the article Nick linked above), then the U.S. gov't has still shot itself in the foot, because I imagine tobacco leaves are worse for you health-wise than rolling paper.