The Tobacconist Preservation Act is a proposed Federal Law which will preserve and protect Tobacconist and consumer rights to smoke in retail Tobacconist stores.
The Tobacconist Preservation Act is a proposed Federal Law which will preserve and protect Tobacconist and consumer rights to smoke in retail Tobacconist stores.
We signed the "The Tobacconist Preservation Act" petition!
# 496:
5:08 pm PDT, Jun 8,Name not displayed, California
# 495:
10:37 am PDT, May 15,Rory Westfall, Missouri
# 494:
9:25 pm PDT, May 14,Woodford Terry, Ohio
# 493:
6:06 am PDT, May 5,Michael Erdman, Minnesota
Tobacconists are hard working business owners who chose to own and run a busness out of their passion for cigars. Nobody today would reasonably think that owning a cigar or smoke shop is an easy way to make money. Quite the contrary. A good tobacconist must have ample inventory for the wide tastes of the consumer, a comfortable lounge where consumers and enjoy their purchases and a host of other accessories and products to meet the ever growing demand. To ban smoking in their own shops is about as ridiculous as banning coffee drinking in a Starbucks. Please stop trying to legislate our lifestyle choices. Any one entering a smoke or tobacco shop should reasonable assume that there will be smoking in that shop and should accept the responsibility that goes with that choice.
# 492:
8:54 am PDT, Apr 23,Steven Phillips, Michigan
Steven Phillips
# 491:
12:16 pm PDT, Apr 22,Robert McDuffee, Florida
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# 490:
8:49 am PDT, Apr 3,Pablo Barrera, New York
It's time to stop persecuting smokers, we know the effects of smoke for our health but we still chose to do whatever we want, that's our right, and we don't need law makers to help us quit when nobody has ask for their help. In New York feels like you can't smoke anywhere, now the tobacco products are much expensive than ever before, STOP THEM TRYING TO STOP US
# 489:
1:32 pm PDT, Apr 2,Carl Mills, North Carolina
# 488:
8:41 am PDT, Apr 1,Greg Nehus, Pennsylvania
This is another prime example of the government overstepping the bounds created by our founding fathers. The argument for banning smoking in public restaurants is that the smoking bothers some of the non-smoking guests. While this ban should be decided by the owner of the restaurant it has some truth in it: that some guests may be annoyed/disgusted by the smoke. Unfortunately, this cannot be said for anyone that enters a cigar shop. Why would anyone enter a cigar shop if they are bothered by the smell of burning tobacco? There was a reason why people left Europe to come to the 'New World' to live... it was freedom from an oppressive government.
# 487:
10:56 am PDT, Mar 31,Jonathan Roberts, Maryland
# 486:
2:51 pm PDT, Mar 30,Nicole Jacques, New Mexico
# 485:
7:09 pm PDT, Mar 27,Koby Loberg, Nebraska
might as well say you cant drink in a bar!!
# 484:
4:53 pm PDT, Mar 26,Paul Konow, Pennsylvania
Smoking Cigars are just as important as the us constitution this is just another Freedom in a free society
# 483:
12:29 pm PDT, Mar 26,Jan Drum, New Mexico
There has already been too much regulation of the tobacco industry and the right's of adults to smoke. When will the government start working on unenployement and housing issues which are much more important?
# 482:
8:20 am PDT, Mar 26,Darleen E Jorgenson, New Mexico
Please help preserve the person's right to choose.
# 481:
6:52 am PDT, Mar 26,Name not displayed, New Mexico
# 480:
3:32 pm PDT, Mar 25,Holly Randall, New Mexico
Is this not America?? Should retailers have rights? Of course! Why should the government interfere by denying passionate consumers the right to smoke in retail tobacconist stores? This should definitely be up to the retailer. And any consumer entering a tobacco shop should be open to smoking in the store. Support the Tobacconist Preservation Act!!!!
# 479:
11:58 am PDT, Mar 25,Colin Rigsby, Texas
Protect the rights of tobacconists and their customers.
# 478:
7:17 pm PDT, Mar 22,Richard Wilson, Florida
The purpose of Government is not passing laws to restrict the FREEDOMS of its Citizens. The purpose of government is to PROTECT the individual rights of its citizens.
# 477:
12:43 am PDT, Mar 21,Jorge Alejandro Armando Rivera Robles, Massachusetts
# 476:
4:56 pm PDT, Mar 14,Dan Gallas, Texas
# 475:
3:08 pm PDT, Mar 13,COLLEEN E. CACHERAT, Colorado
MY FAMILY HAS BEEN IN THE TOBACCO BUSINESS FOR OVER 25 YEARS AND IT IS MY FUTURE. BUT WITH THE WAR AGAINST TOBACCO MY FUTURE AND OUR FAMILYS BUSINESS IS LOOKING GRIM. WHAT HAPPENED TO THE LAND OF THE FREE?
# 474:
10:12 am PDT, Mar 13,Jeff Iwai, Illinois
OK, so you got your SCHIPs bill passed. Now you want to prohibit smoking in tobacco shops? Good way to kill your own efforts. Good way to ruin business. If you want this taxation method to work, you must allow the commerce to continue. Fact: An important part of attaining revenue from tobacco, is smoking. Smoking in the tobacco shop is essential for the growth of this revenue. So please, use common sense and do not encroach upon the tobacconist, nor on the rights of the smokers!
# 473:
3:18 pm PDT, Mar 10,CLIFFORD VENIER, Michigan
# 472:
9:56 am PDT, Mar 8,Ron Zeligzon, New York
# 471:
8:02 am PDT, Mar 8,Paul Duquette, Indiana
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# 470:
5:34 am PDT, Mar 8,Jeffrey Busse, Texas
Personal responsibility and choice needs to be the main factor with any business - YOU have a choice to enter a smoking establishment or not; owners have a CHOICE to make their businesses smoking or smoke free. Government should not place itself in dictating personal choice and responsibility.
# 469:
2:29 pm PST, Mar 6,Michael Chandler, Tennessee
# 468:
11:18 am PST, Mar 6,CK Lim, Malaysia
# 467:
11:40 am PST, Mar 5,Aaron Miller, Louisiana
A cigar shop should have the right to allow its cutomers to smoke in their shops. If people don't want to smell the smoke they don't have to enter the shops.
# 466:
4:53 am PST, Mar 4,Jennifer Loiacono, North Carolina
# 465:
11:14 pm PST, Mar 3,Phillip Ledbetter, Illinois
The cigar industry and working as a tobacconist has changed my life for the better and has become my life. Please help preserve and protect our trade and passion and keep this art form alive and well. We already get taxed more and discriminated more than any other industry; if we're willing to turn over so much funding on every level of government, at least let us enjoy the product.
# 464:
4:28 pm PST, Mar 3,Adam Zwolinski, Pennsylvania
# 463:
4:25 pm PST, Mar 3,Sarah Rybitski, Pennsylvania
# 462:
4:21 pm PST, Mar 3,Mike Bibbs jr, North Carolina
# 461:
4:17 pm PST, Mar 3,Michael C. Bussacco, Pennsylvania
# 460:
4:00 pm PST, Mar 3,John L. Roman, Pennsylvania
# 459:
10:25 am PST, Mar 3,Derek Marlow, Kentucky
Smoker's rights are narrowing to the point of non-existance. Most cities in KY have already banned smoking in bars and lounges. To continue the restriction to the shops is not acceptable. I am not even a regular smoker...I have a cigar occasionally, but I am certainly a regular voter!!!
# 458:
7:27 am PST, Mar 3,David Benac, Louisiana
# 457:
5:59 am PST, Mar 3,Todd Mason, California
# 456:
6:39 pm PST, Mar 2,Raoul Momo, New Jersey
# 455:
3:40 pm PST, Mar 2,Louis Asher, New York
# 454:
1:27 pm PST, Mar 2,Carl B, Pennsylvania
Since when does the Government have the right to tell us what we can and can't do in the privacy of our homes and tobacco shops. That's why they are called "tobacco shops" because that's where people like us gather for comradeship with our fellow smokers.
Mabey the government should worry more about it's own mess it has created than prying into what everybody else is doing. We need to send a clear message to these people that we have the Right to smoke and NO ONE should be able to tell us otherwise. They should also remember that their terms aren't forever and they can be voted out of a job!
# 453:
12:42 pm PST, Mar 2,Douglas Gull-Clemons, Illinois
# 452:
10:53 am PST, Mar 2,Name not displayed, New Jersey
This Michael Garr is correct!
We must protect ourselves and our culture!
# 451:
10:45 am PST, Mar 2,Michael Garr, Pennsylvania
Tobacco has a long, sociocultural history in Western society that should not be denied.
