Posted on 11/07/2023 12:10:39 PM PST by Red Badger
‘Fags’ meaning cigarettes - wow. I am sure that I haven’t heard that since the Beatles. Another that I used to laugh at ... “I’ll knock you up in the morning” meaning that one would arrive at your house early in the day.
too funny ...
If they killed all the smokers now they could solve the problem quicker....
;-)
How about making the english go to dentists every year?
So did FDR.
The English elites will continue to smuggle in their Cuban cigars—the tobacco ban is just for the peons.
They’d like to.
There aren’t enough dentists.
They are finally going to drive on the right side of the roads?.................
“And you can’t tax it once it’s illegal.”
Shhhh...don’t tell them our little secret...imported Cuban cigars for years—no taxes.
Until the Covid collapse of the Cuban economy they were less expensive than taxed non Cubans in many cases.
This reminds me of the movies “Escape from LA” and “Demolition Man.”
“Those who don’t police themselves will be policed, and they won’t like it.”
Let the canings begin until morale improves!
an industry has been born....
Let’s see now.
Where have I heard this before?
Oh, yeah. The Volstead Act of 1919 prohibited alcohol and made multi-millionaires of gangsters and bootleggers, institutionalized the FBI and created a whole class of law -breakers out of otherwise law-abiding citizens.
If the UK is going to do this, the price of cigarettes in Britain is going up to $100 a pack and small boats will be crossing the Irish Sea in droves to satisfy the demand.
By creating this edict, Charles has guaranteed a resurgence in the demand for tobacco products that the tobacco companies could never have engineered on their own. Way to go, Charles! Way to go.
Bob Newhart - Tobacco video (Sir Walter Raleigh phone conversation)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XDxAzVEbN4
You might say all that; but, it’s true.
Banning it will simply make it that much more attractive to young people who just love to rebel against authority.
This will be interesting.
They will just follow the Cuban cigars in the US model.
Here is how it works.
Entrepreneurs create huge warehouses somewhere in Eastern Europe—here is a video showing it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8F39O2Q30A
On line companies are created selling the product.
They figure out how to export the product to “forbidden” destination—the US for Cuban cigars and future England for cigarettes.
They learn (by trial and error) how to disguise the packaging to minimize seizures—and they guarantee the customer that they will replace all seized items.
Since the “criminals” are offshore they are beyond the reach of domestic authorities.
In the US probably less than one tenth of one percent of imported Cuban cigars from Europe are seized—on average. Occasionally there are “flaps” where an exporter got stupid and Customs figured it out..this official .gov video shows the legendary “Chicago massacre” of 2010:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wYTT9dlsuc
Hint: When you are exporting illegal products bright yellow packaging is not a good idea....
;-)
I know the term, but all the lyric sites use “get”. It’s apparently an alternate spelling.
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