If you're "Christian" then who is Eric Driscoll?
Christian, Eric or whoever the hell you are, pretty much the only thing individuals can do is WRITE (not call or email) their US Congressman or their two US Senators and express their concerns.
Bombarding Congressmen and Senators who don't represent you with emails and phone calls is a waste of time and stupid.
The bottom line is cigar smokers make up an extremely small percentage of the populace, even less than gun owners. The hard core NRA and gun rights people account for around 3% of the vote in any given election.
As far as fighting "tax increases" don't waste your time. "Sin" taxes are where Democrats look first to increase taxes when they spend more money then they have which is what they're famous for. Sin taxes (booze, alcohol, etc.) only affect a small part of the populace and a vast majority of the public supports increasing those sins taxes because it's a "choice" that individuals can easily avoid, you don't want to pay higher tobacco taxes, then don't buy tobacco.
I'm all for the cause but I'm personally not going to waste my time and money on your Cigar Rights of America and unfortunately in my case, I'm also not going to bother writing to my Congressman and US Senators because all three of them are Democrats who are bleeding heart liberals who side with the anti smoking nazis. One of our US Senators is going to lose next time around to a Republican so in my case, it's a step in the "right" direction however I don't know which Republican is going to wind up beating him or where he/she stands on tobacco issues so we'll just have to wait and see.
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