Quote Originally Posted by jhedrick83 View Post
Who does the premium cigar industry hurt? Nobody is rolling blunts with their Padron wrappers. Nobody is getting behind the wheel and killing someone because they just finished a Fuente. Kids aren't secretly smoking an Eastern Standard behind school. Who does it hurt? They aren't dangerous or highly addictive. I don't need a nanny, I'm a grown ass man. It also makes me mad as a small business owner. The big corporations and conglomerates will be fine, they can afford it. The little guys can't. Crush the little guy and let the rich get richer. Not to mention the consolidations and mergers that will happen. Medium/Little guys may be forced to sell out to General or Altadis to keep the doors open. Then the products suffer. I'll stop ranting.

Kris is right though. It would only apply to products legally sold in the U.S. So maybe Viva the Embargo?! This shit is just depressing.
That's why I won't buy/support anything that Annheiser Busch/InBev owns as they pull every trick they can think of to keep the little guy from making it as they own portions of the distribution, though it isn't allowed to work that way after prohibition was lifted. Sorry, there's no room on our trucks...

They also BS a portion of consumers who don't want to buy big name brand beer by selling (it escapes me now which one) something labeled as mom and pop owned, but when you go to the address it a Bud factory with no sign out for that "small" brand.

Beer Wars is one of two documentaries about this.