{"id":3414,"date":"2006-11-07T03:59:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-07T03:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=3414"},"modified":"2017-12-13T16:10:52","modified_gmt":"2017-12-13T22:10:52","slug":"altria-takes-note","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/07\/altria-takes-note\/","title":{"rendered":"Altria Takes Note"},"content":{"rendered":"

Back when I was a kid, these were called “candy cigarettes”:<\/p>\n


\n\"Candy<\/p>\n

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Of course, back when I was a kid, you could buy dried tobacco products ready-made. But that was before eager taxation proponents passed continual waves of legislation designed to raise money on a socially-unaccepted product. Waves of legislation that had unintended consequences.<\/p>\n

Which is why we’ll buy dried tobacco in the produce section someday soon. Because dried tobacco isn’t cigarettes<\/i>, you see.<\/p>\n

Neither are “candy sticks”, but it’s good to see that all the candy cigarette machinery didn’t get rusty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Back when I was a kid, these were called “candy cigarettes”: Of course, back when I was a kid, you could buy dried tobacco products ready-made. But that was before eager taxation proponents passed continual waves of legislation designed to raise money on a socially-unaccepted product. Waves of legislation that had unintended consequences. Which is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3414"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18468,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3414\/revisions\/18468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}