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Flavored cigarettes are now banned across the country. This has led some to ask: If cloves are banned, then what's next?
Jump to full article: Miami (FL) Herald, 2009-11-11
Author: ROBERT SAMUELS
Intro: The band of clove smokers is small in South Florida. But as their cloves diminished, stick by stick, worries flared about how this new ban would affect the local culture in a place where partyers can still puff at nightclubs, in a state that has chosen not to levy taxes on tobacco.
``What Hollywood is to actors, Miami is to cigars,'' said William Carroll, manager at Vilar Cigar Shop in South Miami. ``We wonder if its cloves first, then what's next?''
Vilar Cigar smells like roasted coffee and boasts more than 200 types of tobacco. Less than 1 percent of buyers wanted cloves, Carroll said, so it made little difference profit-wise. The shop easily gave them up but remains wary about the future.
Signed in June, the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Act gave retailers, manufacturers, and distributors three months to get rid of their flavored cigarettes -- or face warning letters, fines or prosecution.
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