Cigar Videos and Politics
Friday July 6, 2007
And so my fellow cigar connoisseurs, ask not…
Wait a minute, the year is now 2007, and both CNN and youtube want YOU to ask questions to the Presidential candidates, in your own 30-second online videos. The next Democratic debate will be held on July 23, 2007, and youtube.com is accepting videos until July 22. Not only will your video be available for the world to see on youtube, but CNN will feature a number of videos on their live telecast.
You are free to ask any appropriate question, but we would like our readers to submit video questions that affect cigar smokers. For example, what are your views on a national smoking ban? A national smoking ban might not only be more cigar friendly, but maybe it could also supercede the existing myriad of inconsistent and draconian state and local smoking bans. There could also be some questions about current and proposed federal regulations (and taxes) affecting cigars. And of course, there is always the question about lifting the Cuban Trade Embargo (watch this youtube video).
This is an historic opportunity to participate in the political process. Check out the videos and/or find out how to enter your own video question at youtube.com/debates.
And so my fellow cigar smokers, ASK what your Presidential candidates can do for you!
Note: Videos for the Republican Presidential Debate, originally scheduled for September 17, 2007, can be submitted to youtube.com/debates up until one day prior to the actual debate (currently scheduled for November 28, 2007).
Wait a minute, the year is now 2007, and both CNN and youtube want YOU to ask questions to the Presidential candidates, in your own 30-second online videos. The next Democratic debate will be held on July 23, 2007, and youtube.com is accepting videos until July 22. Not only will your video be available for the world to see on youtube, but CNN will feature a number of videos on their live telecast.
You are free to ask any appropriate question, but we would like our readers to submit video questions that affect cigar smokers. For example, what are your views on a national smoking ban? A national smoking ban might not only be more cigar friendly, but maybe it could also supercede the existing myriad of inconsistent and draconian state and local smoking bans. There could also be some questions about current and proposed federal regulations (and taxes) affecting cigars. And of course, there is always the question about lifting the Cuban Trade Embargo (watch this youtube video).
This is an historic opportunity to participate in the political process. Check out the videos and/or find out how to enter your own video question at youtube.com/debates.
And so my fellow cigar smokers, ASK what your Presidential candidates can do for you!
Note: Videos for the Republican Presidential Debate, originally scheduled for September 17, 2007, can be submitted to youtube.com/debates up until one day prior to the actual debate (currently scheduled for November 28, 2007).
Comments
Boy, I don’t know. I mean I really enjoy my cigars, but it seems to me that if I had the opportunity to actually address a candidate during a debate, I’d ask a question of much greater importance, and with broader application, than one just about smoking or cigars…
I agree with WRG, however, questions on the major issues have already been asked, and hundreds of times. If you ask a question relating to cigars, you just might have a better shot at making it to CNN. Maybe ask Hillary a question about Bill’s use of cigars!
I think asking about a national smoking ban would open a can of worms. Hillary banned Bill’s smoking in the whitehouse. That’s enough for me to discern her position on the subject! Obama is trying to quit smoking Marlboro Reds. Check other candidates’ policies and records… Although I don’t think Fred Thompson is yet a candidate, although I don’t care for his position on other things, he is at least a cigarsmoker….
Politics and common sense are usually mutually exclusive.
Smoking bans impose a solution for an exaggerated problem, but are all the rage. The real problems affecting the lungs of most citizens are caused by industrial and automotive pollution. Let’s see a candidate talk about that instead.
non cuban / american market cigars are actually dirt cheap compared to Europes offering and obviously Cubans so i have mine sent to to the UK.
However, it sounds like although not definate that the US cigar smoker will be screwed like the rest of us in the rest of the world.
YOU have my sympathies.