**SERIOUSLY?**

[akujunkan]

Are cloves and bidis really illegal Stateside now? Seriously?

Way to add one more tiny addition to the list of Reasons Why I Should Stay in Asia, idiots.

That will be all.

Comments

[akujunkan.livejournal.com]

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.

[wombatdeamor.livejournal.com]

agreed. but yes, such things did exist a few years ago. Mint and chocolate were the big ones, and for a while while we were in high school you could buy individual cigarettes in jolly rancher-esque flavors. I hated them, but I believe in suffering for my vices.

When you come home, we'll track down a pack of clove cigars and you can tell me if there's much of a difference. (the damn things give me a headache anyway, as you know.)

The stupid thing is that those flavored cigars get bought all the time for rolling blunts. Why are those allowed? You can't tell me the majority of minicigar smokers are smoking tobacco out of them.