Deal Aims To Prevent Web Cigarette Sales

Business Week Online ^ | March 17, 2005 | AP

[cgbg]

Major credit card companies will refuse to participate in Internet sales of cigarettes under a government agreement made Thursday.

[Raycpa]

de·ni·al Audio pronunciation of "+denial" ( P ) Pronunciation Key (d-nl)
n.


2. Psychology. An unconscious defense mechanism characterized by refusal to acknowledge painful realities, thoughts, or feelings.

[Gabz]

Protagoras is correct - you are a troll on these threads...........and will be treated as one from now on.

[Gabz]

It's not epidemiology.............

[Gabz]

We have a troll here - this person needs to be treated as every other troll on FR.......it matters not how long he has been here.........he is a hyspocrite and an annoyance and deserves the treatment granted to DU trolls every time he shows on a thread dealing with tobacco.

You are done Ray on smoking/tobacco related threads - I will call you on them every time.

[Darksheare]

Hey, neat use of the dictionary.
Asmodeus was famous for that.

[gop_gene]

I'm a light smoker anyway but looks like I'll be cutting back considerably from now on, or else try to find some way around this. I have no desire to pay for online cigs with anything other than a credit card (esp. after getting scammed by a scam cig site and having no recourse since I didn't use a CC), and I'll be damned if the government gets any more of my money thru' their draconian cig taxes if I can help it.

[MeekOneGOP]

Oh, man! What a pain the backside he is, huh?

[SheLion]

You are done Ray on smoking/tobacco related threads - I will call you on them every time.

Raycpa is a complete half baked idiot.  I'm glad I'm not the only one that sees his ugliness!

[Gabz]

Exactly.

[Gabz]

We've know his ugliness from when he was part of the threesome of cinnie, minnie and finnie..........Ray is the only one not smart enough to realize he's a goner on this issue.

I have absolutely no problem discussing the issue, even with those who disagree with my position...........I will NOT tolerate hypocrites. Most especially those that brag about being hypocrites. For some reason this dude wears his hypocrisy regarding taxes on his sleeve as a badge of honor. I'm done with him and will call in the troll alert from know on when he shows up and refuses to stick with the issue.

[SheLion]

But I'm curious... were you ever a smoker?

Yes. And he still blows smoke out of his arze!

[SheLion]

but i said that the day they hit $1.00 a pack... i was going to quit. they did so i did.

4 years ago, when Maine raised the taxes AGAIN, I threw my hands in the air and said 'That's IT!' I took the advise of fellow FReepers and started rolling my own.

I can roll a beautiful carton for a little under $8 dollars. The savings have been mind boggling and not paying into the state coffers anymore has been WONDERFUL!

[SheLion]

Then they come for you. :-(

I wish they would. Get him the hell off of this forum! He is a NAT!

[Raycpa]

[SheLion]

Why do you waste all that space with such HUGE images? Don't you even know how to resize??? What a waste.

[Max in Utah]

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[an amused spectator]

I bet you are "addicted" to food, clothes, housing, transportation.

Tax Freedom Day is between the middle of April and the end of May this year. Personally, I'm betting it's closer to the end of May. The legislatures have been really busy hiding the new bites over the last year.

[Raycpa]

There is no Freedom Day for smokers. Every day is tax day.

[an amused spectator]

There is no Freedom Day for smokers. Every day is tax day.

And, There is no Freedom Day for taxpayers. Every day is tax day.

[Raycpa]

And, There is no Freedom Day for taxpayers. Every day is tax day.

Mostly Fridays for everyone else. Smokers get to suck it up daily.