I’ve been for legalization of marijuana for as long as I can remember. I’ve used it a dozen times or so, but not often and not regularly. In the past, I’ve heard tobacco rights proponents put down pot. Often, it’s in amazement to the potential legalization in face of continuing tobacco restrictions. That’s a misguided [...]

Been awhile folks.
As I’m sure you’re aware, PACT joined us this past week. While the tax part is annoying, I understand it. Your government wants your money, it can get it however it wants to, more or less.
It the USPS ban that so fucking stupid congress and the president should be sent to clown school. [...]

The FDA tobacco control act goes into effect today. There’s been plenty of speculation and interpretation as to what it means for us. Now that’s here, I’m just going to sit back and watch the snus shops and the manufacturers and see what they do. The real danger isn’t what’s upon us in the next [...]

This part of the series on my trip to Gothenburg is about the presentations Swedish Match gave. There were 4 that I haven’t yet discussed, all quite interesting.
The first was done by Connie Andersson who is the tobacco and flavor guy. I just googled him and his title says “Product Specialist” on linkdin, so there [...]

If you were a doctor, would you live in BF Texas for four years in exchange for $160,000?
As it turns out, probably not.
According to the Lubbock Journal, the $1.32 minimum tax on smokeless tobacco that went in to effect last year isn’t getting doctors to live in shitty places. Why? Living in a shitty place [...]

I know last time I promised I’d tell you about the interesting people that Chad and I got to speak with. Too lazy today. Instead, I’m going to take you to the part of my story after all the Swedish Match festivities had ended.
Mostly, Chad and I walked around and looked at snus. We didn’t [...]

As it turned out, forgetting my camera wasn’t too big of a deal as far as snus pics go. When our factory tour leader — a woman who stood no more than 5′ tall — showed up, she told us we couldn’t take any pictures inside the place. Quite frankly, the way she bossed us [...]

A lot has happened since my last blog; I went to Sweden to see how Swedish Match makes snus. I’m not going cover everything in this post. Worth mentioning is that, like a dumb ass, I forgot my camera in Austin, so any pictures I post come from Chad or Swedish Match or stolen from [...]

I got these things in the mail the. Gave them a whirl today, and they actually sound pretty awesome.

Also, the cord is really long — about 6 feet — which can be handy. The one downside is that they don’t say right and left on the ears, so you might accidentally listen to your music [...]

I’m not Mr. GetSnus, so I don’t know the real reason. But here’s what logic tells us:
Remember, GetSnus was owned by Cigar International, whose primary business is selling cigars, not snus. PACT makes dealing with snus a pain in the ass. Cigars will still be easy breezy. Since snus probably didn’t even account for 1% [...]