Woith said he'll have to find new places for the Society meetings. “We're trying to figure out what we're going to do. Nobody knows what's going to happen.”

A comment:
If the anti-smoking crowd really cared about not exposing children to smoking, they would support more concepts like that introduced in Israel and being experimented with in Chicago.

Children are exposed to smoking daily in the streets because that’s where their cherished anti-smoking legislation has sent smokers. If laws were re-arranged to create more licensed premises such as Hendel is proposing in Israel and the front doors and street-front windows of such places were opaque from the outside, smokers would be taken off the streets and placed where children would not see them from the street level.

But since the real goal of the anti-tobacco movement – regardless of the rhetoric – is to eradicate smoking, such enlightenment is unlikely to emerge. The antis are too deep in their own fog of war.

First in the Nation Cigar Poll!
The famed New Hampshire primary – first in the nation – will be held on Tuesday, January 8. Candidates, political junkies and journalists of every stripe are on hand to participate and comment and the Federal Cigar smoke shop is in the middle of it.

The popular Portsmouth tobacconist on Ladd Street is holding its own forecast, with customers and visitors dropping store matchbooks into paper bags strung across the humidor with the names of the Republican and Democratic candidates in them.

Owner Leonard Seagren told the Foster’s Daily Democrat of Dover that “It’s not an official forecast” and “It’s also not inked to be a predictor; just a way to expose voters to the election process.”

The “polling” period began on Monday, December 31 and will close on Sunday, January 6, just two days ahead of the primary.

Seagren began the “Federal Forecast” in 1984 and the Democratic winner was Colorado Senator Gary Hart. “Lo and behold, he won the state primary,” said Seagren. “It gave me courage that our customers truly know what’s going on.”

Of those running in the current primary campaign, Seagren said Republican Rudy Giuliani came into the store last December 1 to share a late-night cigar with the locals and talk cigars and politics.
~ Rich Perelman

Comments (0)

Subscribe to this comment's feed

---