Posted on 11/25/2009 5:36:32 AM PST by listenhillary
November 19, 2009 - WASHINGTON, D.C. -- With unanimous support, S. 1147, the Prevent All Cigarette Trafficking Act (PACT Act) was approved yesterday by the Senate Judiciary Committee, and will head to the full Senate.
If passed, the bill would prevent illegal untaxed cigarette trafficking and access to tobacco products by youth by prohibiting online and mail-order sales of tobacco. If the bill is signed into law, its regulations would go into effect 90 days following the enactment by the president, according to the version passed yesterday by the committee.
The PACT Act was passed in the House in May.
The Coalition to Stop Contraband Tobacco -- a group made up of several trade associations, public officials and a unit of a major tobacco company, among others -- gathered on Capitol Hill earlier this week to urge the committee to pass the legislation.
Some trade association members of the Coalition to Stop Contraband Tobacco include NACS, AWMA, FMI, NATO, NATSO, PMAA and SIGMA. Altria Client Services, a division of Altria Group, is also a member of the coalition on behalf of Philip Morris USA and U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Co.
"At the very time when states have undertaken extraordinary efforts to restrict minors' access to cigarettes and continue to increase cigarette excise taxes, the Internet still offers minors a virtually risk-free and attractively priced means to easily obtain them," Hank Armour, president and CEO of NACS, said in a statement ahead of the committee's passage. "The PACT Act addresses long-standing concerns that law-abiding neighborhood convenience stores have with respect to tax evasion and underage sales."
But you can buy all the pot you can smoke. Bone-head morons in Washington D C. Nanny Nanny Nanny State.
Anyone knwo how this will affect on-line cigar sales?
Several large cigar distributors could be out of business overnight.....
Every bit of mail order tobacco as I understand it. Nothing is allowed to ship directly to consumers.
If I am wrong, anyone please jump in and correct me.
It hasn’t passed the senate yet, it just got voted out of committee.
It’s a brilliant plan actually, They continue to destroy any and every small business AND at the same time ensure that big gov. collects every penny that we owe to them.
I’d like to see a federal law to prohibit trendy acronyms.
“Nothing is allowed to ship directly to consumers.”
So I open, the “Going Rouge Smokes” distributors
Next thing you know they’ll be saying you can’t mail-order Cuban cigars.
But you can buy all the pot you can smoke. Bone-head morons in Washington D C. Nanny Nanny Nanny State.
I wonder if they’ll let us have it shipped to our local FFL dealer. $20-$50 fee per transaction, of course.
I wish they were as consciencious about govt waste as they are about tobacco.
Sorry for the double post.
the Seneca Nations said that if this passed they were going to shut down the section of the New York Thruway that runs through their land. The Mohawk Nations have already succeeded in shutting down border crossings into Canada for similar reasons. This is going to get good!
I like their thinking. Patterson unleashing the national guard to open the freeway?
That could get interesting.
the Mohawks forced the Canadians to punt and permanently close one of their border stations. Something tells me that if The Duke were alive today he’d be switching sides!
And please, no sermons about the evils of smoking
I am a vet, retired on a fixed income, and my pipe, occasional cigar and a FEW cigs a day, are one of my few pleasures.
Just taking up where the pervert has been, scumbag, Spitzer left off when he cajoled and threatened all credit card companies from accepting orders online, for tobacco products.
Sheesh, guess I'll have to start looking for a different supplier than where I get my smokes now; perhaps, off shore or are they going to regulate international commerce as well?
Frikin, greedy, commie, bastards!
I think that they have used UPS, Fedex records to track down untaxed tobacco/cigarettes coming from other countries in the past.
This bill hasn’t passed yet, but I see no reason why it would not with our current Marxist administration.
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