[CSM]

High taxation used as a tool to modify behavior funding Terrorism!

Headline correction ping!

[GulliverSwift]

Media's spin: When you smoke a cigarette, you promote terrorism

[theDentist]

Smoking Cigarettes Supports Terrorists
Women, Minorities Hurt Most

[Hanging Chad]

"...including several with terrorist links...up from only a handful five years ago..."
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I need to put this in my handy list of weights and measures.
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Several > Handfull
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[sheltonmac]

"The deeper we dig into these cases, the more ties to terrorism we're discovering."

Hmmmmm. Looks like this is an attempt to justify government power-grabs like the Patriot Act.

If they really want to crack down on black market tobacco, why don't they try cutting taxes? That's the only reason there's a black market in the first place.

[zeugma]

Anyone who thinks the mob is going to let terrorists take over this rather lucrative enterprise needs to have their head examined. Do they really expect us to believe that terrorists are getting funding from moving smokes from low tax to high tax states? They think we're morons you know.

[The Mayor]

serious ties with this in Buffalo.

Remember the lackawana 6

[BSunday]

This is getting to be like "everything gives you cancer". Pretty soon downloading music from kazaa will be supporting terrorism.

[aruanan]

Cigarette Smuggling Linked to Terrorism

Government Greed in the Form of Tobacco Taxes Linked to Terrorism

[joesnuffy]

Profiling mulsims between the ages of 18 and 40 might be a tad easier on Americans

[joesnuffy]

Profiling mulsims between the ages of 18 and 40 might be a tad easier on Americans

[Just another Joe]

This isn't the first time it's been said. It won't be the last time.
You can get a lot of prison time for importing marijuana, heroin, meth, and the like.
There are not very severe penalties for moving cigarettes from one state to another.

When the price is outrageous in one place ($7.50 in NY City) and reasonable in another place ($3.00 near KC, MO in some places), the penalty for doing so light, and the profit to be made really very good, what does the government expect?

Entrepreneurs will pop up anywhere there is a buck to be made with light penalties.

Weren't a couple of the founding fathers involved in some type of smuggling?

[Gritty]

I've got an idea. Let's kill this terrorist bonanza by cutting cigarette taxes!

I doubt such a proposal would fly though. Too many politicians and lawyers are now less addicted to tobacco and more addicted to it's money stream. They find it impossible to quit.

[VRWC_minion]

The real terrorist is the parent that smokes in enclosed spaces with their child.

[Oztrich Boy]

Well if the Federal Bureau of FATE says so, it must be true.

[Dead Corpse]

Boy, I gotta tell you. (sarcasm)No one saw this coming did they...(/sarcasm)

Effing morons. What the hell did they think was gonna happen?

[FrankR]

First of all, there is no terrorism...according to the democRATS anyway.

Secondly, what did those states expect when they taxed a pack of cigarettes up to $10 a pack in some places?

Either stop this silly smoking ban nonsense, or reap the consequences of the black market. Didn't prohibition teach our "illustrious" leaders ANYTHING?

Smokers will not be promoting terrorism, the PC boneheads who are playing "nanny state" are promoting it.

Looks like the only thing left is to make ALL TOBACCO PRODUCTS ILLEGAL. Just ban them outright, now. Come on libs, you've got the perfect excuse right now...do it.

Then after that, go ahead and ban fast food. You'll be needing a new "public health hazard" to wring your collective hands over, and you can just tax the sh*t out of fast food. Oh, but then...then, won't the terrorists start selling black market hamburgers? Then, outlaw them too.

Once tobacco and fast food are out of the way,liberals can ban all other products that:
a) People enjoy;
b) Makes People smile;
c) Doesn't already generate a sin tax;
d) Someone else has that the libs don't have.

These laws go back to the same basic principle of human nature that "smoking and kids" does...you tell them they "can't", and they will do it, or die trying.

[soozla]

For the past several (10 or so) years, many areas, like mine in the Midwest, probably have noticed an influx of "cheap cigarette" stores to their local strip malls. Usually owned and staffed by middle eastern persons, these have been known to front "halal"(sp?) or money-laundering type operations with ties to terrorism, where they can use a cash payment method which cannot be traced. This info coming from an ATF friend.

[Libertarian444]

Cigarette Smuggling Linked to Terrorism

What utter nonsense. Another bureaucratic power grab in the name of the WOT.

[the_devils_advocate_666]

The traffickers purchase a large volume of cigarettes in states where the tax is low, such as Virginia and North Carolina, transport them up Interstate 95 to states such as Maryland, New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey

Sounds like VA and NC are laughing all the way to the bank at the expense of MD, NY, PA & NJ. I've heard folks suggest VA and NC might want to raise their taxes, I think maybe not.