I wonder how many teenagers and 20-year-olds stocked up on tobacco products last week?

And if so, how much did each spend on their investments? I suppose there are methods for charting tobacco sales by age? Probably Stock fluctuations as well.

But besides the main health concerns regarding tobacco, what else do folks storing large tobacco quantities need to consider? How to keep tobacco fresh and safe? And other related questions and insights I haven't thought of, but that others may have?

Even though I grew up in Virginia where tax was 3 cents a pack and our High School had a vast outdoor, but partly-sheltered smoking lounge, where 14 to 16 year olds could smoke with a parent note, smoking didn't appeal to me, so I'm unfamiliar with many of its aspects. When I quit drinking though, I traded that danger (for me) for chewing tobacco and don't look forward to having to quit in the future. I must say I find chewing tobacco in right doses and favorable brands, to be surprisingly more refreshing and stimulating than I had imagined.

Indeed, its timely and refreshing ironic now that our new law banning cigarette sales takes effect today, a traditional day for quitting. What happens when under-agers bum cigarettes now? A new level of trouble to be aware about for someone trying to be kind, by giving one cigarette to a college student bumming out trying to take a refreshing smoke-break, while intensely cramming all night during important Finals Week.

Deploy drones to quash unlawful cigarettes

I read with great interest about how Boise plans to employ an extensive New Years resolution to forbid smoking in city parks. Taking this new law in conjunction with how our military industrial complex has recently started to promote drones for better homeland security, this synchronicity offers perfect timing to suggest a test case for Boise.

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How about setting aside one legal smoking park, with the provision that if you light up, you are subject to becoming sprayed by a drone equipped with a laser guided squirt-gun? Such a daring theme park would likely attract copious visitors and tourists. The stimulating park would also help drone operators develop better fighting skills, with the use of live volunteers under realistic conditions. Shooting a live cigarette out of a patriotic smoker’s mouth without making him all wet, could lead to a special Clint Eastwood citation.

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As these machines become more sophisticated and robust, eventually the men behind the drone curtains, will be able to parlay simple skills learned from precisely squirting out stinky cigars and pipes into tremendous forest fighting capabilities, as well as finding lost and bewildered backcountry enthusiasts, and other good deeds not yet dreamed about.