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While such a ban would not be enforced in the United States because this country did not ratify the treaty, Quarles said he believes the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) would “apparently” try to duplicate this same ban. The FDA took over tobacco regulation last year after a landmark bill passed Congress, giving the agency regulatory power over the industry. “There is no study that we are aware of where it says that an American-blend cigarette is any more or less harmful than any other type of cigarette,” said Quarles.
Aside from the lack of evidence to substantiate a ban, the task of enforcing such a regulation is another matter. “We see a stabilizing trend in the ultra-luxury segment, as high-net-worth buyers pursue the very best properties at opportunistic price points,” says Bill Fandel of Peaks Real Estate Sotheby’s ( BID news people ) International Realty, who handled the sale of the Bootjack Ranch, via an e-mail. Del Nunzio agrees, calling the sale “a signal that for the property possessing the unique features a buyer wants,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the buyer in today’s market conditions will not only pay as much as yesterday’s buyer, but even more.”
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Travelers from the West would witness this sea change as it was happening. While Japan was developing rapidly around them, visitors wanted to absorb as much of quaint old Japan as they could. One famous visitor who arrived in 1871 and stayed for two years was Charles Longfellow, son of America’s leading poet. Along with getting tattooed,marlboro gold cigarettes, which was a favorite souvenir, Longfellow had himself photographed in traditional carpenter’s dress. Prominently displayed with him is a tobako-bon.
The formidable Victorian traveler Isabella Bird frequently described Japanese smoking habits in her epistolary travel journal. She visited Japan in 1878 and journeyed through regions that had never seen a foreigner, let alone a foreign woman. She wrote that her kuruma (another name for rickshaw) runners, clad in blue cotton drawers,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], shirts open at the front, and tattoos, had a waist girdle with a tiny pipe and pouch attached. When they took a break, out came the pipe,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], to be filled with a minute amount of tobacco.[link widoczny dla zalogowanych].
Three puffs per pipeful, and they were good to go. Women, Bird observed, were just as devoted to their pipes. At temple fairs, girls working in the popular archery galleries served tea and sweetmeats and smoked their tiny pipes. When Bird stopped at a tea house, “one smiling girl brought me the tabako-bon, a square wood or lacquer tray, with a china or bamboo charcoal-holder and an ash-pot upon it.” So ingrained was smoking as an act of hospitality that when Bird declined, “they were much surprised at my not smoking and supposed me to be under a vow!”