There is a certain irony in all this. While he and his administration continue to seek to demonize tobacco and other American industries, they appear equally as eager to legalize the criminal. The ultimate Irony will be the first person arrested for smoking a cigarette in public, while onlookers smoke their joints. That will one day happen.
Roll-your-own cigarette operations to be snuffed out
A tiny amendment buried in the federal transportation bill to be signed today by President Barack Obama will put operators of roll-your-own cigarette operations in Las Vegas and nationwide out of business at midnight.
Robert Weissen, with his brothers and other partners, own nine Sin City Cigarette Factory locations in Southern Nevada, including six in Las Vegas, and one in Hawaii. He said when the bill is signed their only choice is to turn off their 20 RYO Filling Station machines and lay off more than 40 employees.
"We'll stay open for about another week to sell tubes and tobacco just to get through our inventory, but without the use of the RYO machines, we won't be staying open," he said.
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