It's technically illegal to have a secondary market for tobacco and alcohol. So I guess that's what's fueling all of these changes. I'm personally not surprised that groups like C.A.S.T. are getting taken down, and in some ways, I agree with it. There's just little oversight for potential scams and I would frequently see posts about people who had been screwed over. And I also think the PowerBall-style sellers are scam artists. Some would ask $50 for a 1 in 26 chance of winning a box of cigars. C'mon.

But as far as the sites that are strictly hobby related, such as CigarDojo--I just don't see why YouTube or others would go after them. Apparently they can still post, but they're not getting ad revenue. I guess it gets into the advertising laws for tobacco?

What we need is a strict delineation between premium cigars and pipe tobacco from other kinds of tobacco. They're just not the same thing.