natural tobacco
It sounds like a bit of a con. The makers of American Spirit, Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Company, is owned by R.J. Reynolds, the world’s second largest tobacco company (behind Philip Morris), which also owns Camel, Winston, Salem, Kool, Pall Mall, other cigarette brands. Santa Fe operates as a wholly owned, independent subsidiary of RJR.
There is a local tobacco grown in only a few mile radius. For whatever reason it isn't the same grown anywhere else. Spelling might be butchered but it is perque tobacco. Grown by the indians long before the white men came and white men came to south Louisiana long before they came to most places in the US. The indians processed the tobacco, fermenting it in hollow logs and I forget what all. Pretty sure the exact process is still secret. "Natural" tobacco does indeed sound like marketing.
I think the next time I spend a weekend in the pool hall where they allow smoking I will leave the great large green gobs of snot everywhere that being in smoke always causes, hell it is at least as natural as the smoke and I should have the same rights as the smokers!
Years ago I could have lived in a chimney. Then smoking bothered me. Now I am not only allergic to cigarette smoke, the follow-up is a nasty sinus infection. The question has became do I go enjoy a few hours in a pool room followed by being sick for a day and enjoying three more days of inflamed and raw feeling sinuses while making everyone around me enjoy the sounds of me expelling pounds of thick ropey green snot?
I'm sure many felt a little uncomfortable just reading this post. Think how I and everyone around me feels when they have to put up with the real thing for at least three days.
I'm all for choice, I just wish I had the choice to play in public in a nonsmoking environment. I know other people who don't go to pool halls just because of having to step through the door when they get home, strip, clothes straight to the washing machine, then head straight to the shower to wash the sticky stinky smoke out of hair and beards and off of their skin.
I know the pool room owners need league players to survive but does each league player really need two cigarettes at their seat, another in their hand, and a few more scattered about fuming away every place they have been? I'd swear that some league players have five cigarettes going at once. Surely they don't smoke like this all the time or they would be dead or too poor to do anything but smoke.
Your freedom is depriving me of mine!
Hu