All States depend so heavily on cigarette taxes -as evidenced by the discrimination against smokers looking for a price deal and distributors looking for customers.
Could you imagine the uproar if there were interstate mailing prohibitions on Pet Meds and diabetic products?
“Could you imagine the uproar if there were interstate mailing prohibitions on Pet Meds and diabetic products?”
Exactly right, cigarettes are a legal product, but they are trying single them out, using the harmful effects of tobacco as a ruse. The purpose of the law is for taxation enforcement alone. The very name of the law illustrates the underhanded tactic they are using, talking about “cigarette trafficking”. Does anyone talk about “soft drink trafficking” or “gasoline trafficking”? Why are cigarettes, legal in all 50 states, the only legal product tarred by association with this term?
As long as it’s a legal product, then interstate commerce in it surely must be legal, so there can be no such thing as “trafficking” in cigarettes.