Jump to full article: Arizona Daily Wildcat, 2009-09-23
Author: Alex Gendreau
Intro: Nevertheless, as of yesterday, smokers who crave cherries will no longer be able to purchase and light up their Cherry Dreams in front of the smoke shop. Many smoke shop patrons will have to find new outlets.
"We have regular customers once a day or twice a day or every other day and they will get one of (the flavored cigarettes) or a selection of those and they don't get anything else," Handley said.
Hippie Gypsy manager Lauren Adkisson takes the new rule in stride. "We live in a weird society right now. We have rules for everything," she said.
"We are at that point where it's like, 'Oh, another weird rule? Let's just take it under our belt and deal with it.'" . . .
Smoke shops are still preparing for the worst. Hippie Gypsy started putting the flavored tobaccos on super-sale long before the cutoff date, and plans on purging the rest or distributing it to their employees.
"There is so little factual information out that everyone just has their own idea of what's going on," Handley said. "I heard that they are going to (ban) flavors that aren't really associated with fruit like purple flavor as opposed to grape."
Adkisson speculated that cloves will be marketed as cigarillos (a shorter smaller version of a cigar), in order to escape the jurisdiction.
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