And the modern-day prohibitionists-by-exorbitant-taxation expected anything different?
Or you could just order them from Europe. I think Switzerland ships them out - no duties or taxes, just a small shipping fee.
Pretty much every smoker I know in Canada smokes bootleg smokes.
Another example of why so many felons vote for DemocRATS. Look at the job opportunities that the DemocRATS have created with their tobacco tax increases.
Remember when the milkman would deliver milk to the box on your porch? That is how common cig smuggling is up there. The primary scheme is “reimportation” - the cigs are legally shipped, tax-free, out of the country.
Then they are smuggled right back in.
This new tax is a mafia wet-dream.
>>>> a cigarette and methamphetamine ring <<<<<<
Predictable. In fact I did predict it several years ago, and it’s only been a matter of time and waiting.
The feds have finally raised cig taxes to a level that encourages criminal enterprise.
Coming to a city near you.
(Disclaimer: I don’t smoke, and I don’t care if others do.)
If they would legalize tobacco this would end. :~D
Hey, look at this way: It’s jobs ceated by the stimulus.
Canada has a fake reality sit com called Trailer Park Boys.They had one episode where the three main charactors come up with a plan by stealing Patrick Swayze’s[who is kind of an on going inside joke on the show]antique toy train and con these three imbeciles to build tracks across the border where they smuggle their latest crop of primo weed to non other than Sebastan Bach of Skid Row fame who sends them a shipment of American cigarettes which they can bootleg on the Canadian side of the border.This article reminded me of that show.It’s kind of hilarious when their plan backfires due to their Nemisis trailer park supervisor and his pot bellied sidekick assistant supervisor who spoil[as usual]their diabolical plan.
According to the RCMP the organized crime groups that smuggle contraband tobacco into Canada are the same ones smuggling marijuana into the United States:
Millions of smokers across Canada rely on the cigarettes — which retail for as little as $5 a carton, compared with up to $90 for a carton of legal smokes. According to the RCMP, which is engaged in a futile battle against the smugglers who crisscross the St. Lawrence at will, all of the tobacco manufacturers on the U.S. side are run by organized crime groups. “It’s all the way from mom and pop groups to Hells Angels,” says Sgt. Michael Harvey, of the Cornwall, Ont., RCMP detachment. “We’ve identified 25 organized crime groups in the Cornwall area that are involved in the illicit tobacco trade, the illicit drug trade, gun smuggling, people smuggling and currency,” he says. “And it’s all related. The same organized crime groups that are producing the cigarettes north are the same ones using the same smuggling routes to move the drugs south.”
And the May 2008 shooting death of Daniel Simonds, a 31-year-old former U.S. Marine in rural upstate New York, underscores the point. According to federal prosecutors in New York, Simonds was murdered after he attempted to cut cigarette magnate Alan Jacobs out of a marijuana deal:
About a year before the shooting, Mr. Simonds had gone to work as an electrician at a cigarette factory owned by Alan Jacobs in Akwesasne, the reserve at the heart of the contraband tobacco business. Mr. Jacobs’ family business — Jacobs Tobacco Company — is headquartered in a modern 47,000-square-foot factory in an industrial park on the U.S. side of the Akwesasne reserve, just a few kilometres from the Canadian border. * * * Police and prosecutors say that after he started working on the reserve, Mr. Simonds started to do marijuana runs for Mr. Jacobs. * * * Mr. Jacobs, police and prosecutors say, was buying high-grade Canadian hydroponic marijuana from Canadian Hells Angels, smuggling it into Akwesasne and shipping it to customers elsewhere in the United States — part of a lucrative two-way trade over the border that made Mr. Jacobs rich. * * * Prosecutors and police believe Mr. Simonds and Mr. Jacobs had a falling out after Mr. Simonds decided to start serving a marijuana customer in Ohio himself, cutting Mr. Jacobs out of the deal.
http://thechronicleherald.ca/News/1115009.html
Like blood oozing from between clenched fingers, the populace will find escape from the ever-tightening iron fist of debilitating taxation in any way they can.
Hmmm.
Here you are again.
Has anyone welcomed you to FR yet?
Microstamping of each cigarette!!
Wait for it.
Ping.
At the level of kookiness and stubborn obstinacy of the federal government, I’m truly surprised that they haven’t brought back alcohol prohibition.
They think that they walk the Earth as gods, so why not?
Al Gore pretends he is Nimrod, but controlling the world’s weather instead of building a great tower unto heaven.
The POTUS, whoever it was, has for decades thought of himself as the Emperor of the world, ruling over the mighty Pax Americana, and high above the law.
The SCOTUS thinks they may rewrite the law of the land by a 5-4 vote, decreeing their will from on high as well.
So why not prohibit alcohol again? Their egos demand it! They would abolish fatty foods, decree that everyone has to exercise for an hour every morning, and sing happy songs in a mighty chorus.
Because it is GOOD for us! And it is also their will that we do so!
Let’s face it, the federal government is delusional.