Re: It's happening
When I was an avid pipe smoker, I participated on the newsgroup alt.smokers.pipes. A very good question came up a few years ago: Should we as pipe smokers try to separate ourselves from cigarette smokers in an effort to fight for our own rights and let the "lowlife" cigarette smokers deal with their own bans and taxes or should we ban together to fight for smokers rights as a whole?
I think a parallel can be made for Puff.com. Any presence of a group of organized cigar smokers can only help our causes (right to smoke/right not to be taxed up the wazoo). We may not like the commercialism or the way the board is being run but it looks like they are willing to invest some money and resources to help further the hobby we all love. So, I guess that's a good thing. I know Puff was conceived at the expense of some good folks here and I won't be a "Puffer", but there is strength in numbers and Caputo is all about the numbers.
MCS
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