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Jerry Brown of California has become the latest Governor to sign a law raising the legal smoking age to 21. I reiterate what I've said before in this blog, you can fight and die for your country on remote battlefields but you can't light up to relieve your stress. This latest act however is not the important news you need to focus on. The FDA has had regulatory control of cigarettes for a little while, now they have gained control of e-cigarettes, cigars including premium hand rolled, pipe tobacco and hookah. This unprecedented nanny seizure has rammifications yet to be revealed. If, like me, you are a pipe and cigar smoker, I suggest you begin stock piling your supplies. I can't afford to but if you can, do it. Let me explain why. There are already highly restrictive states in the U.S., Washington has a 75% excise tax on tobacco and has made it illegal for it's citizens to mail order tobacco products. They must purchase locally. The FDA could pass regulations stoppi...

HUD Secretary Julian Castro has announced that his department intends to federally ban the smoking of cigarettes, pipe and cigar in public housing. The public has 60 days to offer comment. That comment will of course be ignored. Understand the meaning of this, the federal government is going to order that residents of public housing may not smoke in the privacy of their homes. Not only must these citizens suffer the indignity of needing housing assistance but they will be told that they cannot engage in a legal activity if they so choose. I personally do not like the smell of cigarettes but I am a pipe and cigar smoker. If Secretary Castro said they would ban smoking in the common areas such as hallways and lobbies I could barely stomach it, wouldn't like it but could tolerate it and even sympathize with it. But a person's home is their personal sanctuary. What this action says is you're poor and therefore at our mercy, we will dictate how you live your life. You would b...