Are you referring to the S.1147 bill which was voted on and passed by the house today?
If this is the bill you are talking about, it does not apply to cigars or pipe tobacco, I'm not sure about loose cigarette tobacco. It's about preventing cigarette and smokeless tobacco shipments via USPS to prevent the loss of tax revenue.
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`(a) Prohibition-
`(1) IN GENERAL- All cigarettes and smokeless tobacco (as those terms are defined in section 1 of the Act of October 19, 1949, commonly referred to as the Jenkins Act) are nonmailable and shall not be deposited in or carried through the mails. The United States Postal Service shall not accept for delivery or transmit through the mails any package that it knows or has reasonable cause to believe contains any cigarettes or smokeless tobacco made nonmailable by this paragraph.
`(2) REASONABLE CAUSE- For the purposes of this subsection reasonable cause includes--
`(A) a statement on a publicly available website, or an advertisement, by any person that the person will mail matter which is nonmailable under this section in return for payment; or
`(B) the fact that the person is on the list created under section 2A(e) of the Jenkins Act.
`(b) Exceptions-
`(1) CIGARS- Subsection (a) shall not apply to cigars (as defined in section 5702(a) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986).
`(2) GEOGRAPHIC EXCEPTION- Subsection (a) shall not apply to mailings within the State of Alaska or within the State of Hawaii.
`(3) BUSINESS PURPOSES-
`(A) IN GENERAL- Subsection (a) shall not apply to tobacco products mailed only--
`(i) for business purposes between legally operating businesses that have all applicable State and Federal Government licenses or permits and are engaged in tobacco product manufacturing, distribution, wholesale, export, import, testing, investigation, or research; or
`(ii) for regulatory purposes between any business described in clause (i) and an agency of the Federal Government or a State government.
