Premium cigars are smoked for pleasure, cigarettes to feed an addiction. Premium cigars are a 100 percent natural, hand-crafted product made with tobacco that's been fermented to reduce nicotine levels. Cigarettes are mass-produced with processed tobacco, some of which has been manipulated to raise nicotine levels. The health police simply aren't interested in these differences. To them, smoking is smoking.
Total abolition is their ultimate goal.
We're on the cusp of a dangerous time. Flush with success from the cigarette settlement, the antismoking folks are beginning to focus on cigars. We're not going to change their tightly closed minds, but I believe there are still some lawmakers in this country who won't submit to the witch-hunt until they hear both sides. All Rights Reserved.