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Subject: Pipes Digest #167 - November 23, 1994

		Pipes Digest #167 - November 23, 1994
		     Circulation this issue: 625

Welcome to new members:

	 David Jerome Lathan		(???????????????????????)
	 David C. Evans III		(???????????????????????????)
	 Paul Baumgartel		(???????????????)
	 Michael Borkon			(??????????????????)
	 Dave Green			(???????????????????)
	 Dan Marner			(??????????????????)
	 Sean Crist			(????????????????????)
	 Thomas G. Smith Jr.		(??????????????????????????)
	 Seth Strichartz, M.D.		(?????????????????????????)
	 Rich Guckel			(???????????????)
	 Ryan D. Ebens			(????????????????????????)
	 John Rinaldi			(???????????????)

The battle against prohibition is not over... it's moving to the state
level. Just this morning, I learned that there is a bill in the New
Jersey state legislature that would deny smokers any public place to
assemble peacefully for the legal purpose of enjoying a smoke, in
violation of the First Amendment. Like the OSHA finding, it would
prohibit all smoking in bars, hotels, restaurants, even tobacco
shops. Everywhere but your (detached, single-family) home -- and that
will be next.

If your state legislature is considering some similar smoker-bashing
bill, please write your elected state representative. It is the
owners' right to decide whether their establishments will permit
tobacco, and the patrons' right to decide, as adults, whether to go
there.

Also in the news: Marvin Shanken of Cigar Aficionado schedules a march
on the White House, (in March, of course!) See my article later in
this Digest, and hope to see you there!

But now, let us take our still-legal-for-the-moment smokes in hand and
move on to lighter (!) topics; on this week's venue, we meander
through magazines, magnolias, Menlo Park, Macedonia, and meerschaum...


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             Help Stop Prohibition -- Keep Tobacco Legal
                        Call -- Write -- Vote
                        Then, Smoke in Peace.

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