Internet Smoke Shops Lure Tax-Averse Cigarette Buyers

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[SheLion]

ROFLOL! I adore Chief Wallace!

I do too!! And I love it when he said:

"Until you make it illegal, get out of here."

LOL

[SheLion]

Here's another good article:

THE "PUBLIC HEALTH" ANTISMOKING SCAM: A PAPER OF DISSENT

[SheLion]

It needs to be posted again:

Federal Court Rules Against EPA on Secondhand Smoke

[TheRightGuy]

The last time I bought a carton, it cost me $3.50

Apprently your age can only be determined by carbon dating.

[AppyPappy]

That was 1977.

[fone]

Ahhh, yes. From your link:

A new study, by the International Agency for Research on Cancer, found no statistically significant risk to secondhand smoke. The tobacco industry accused the study's sponsors, the World Health Organization, of trying to suppress the findings; WHO said the companies "completely misrepresented" the study

I think the final report came out a couple of years later, and from that we learned WHO was not telling the truth...

no pun intended

[TheRightGuy]

That was 1977.

oooopps! I guess can I remember them going from 30 to 35 cents a pack (in the machines outside gas stations where us kids could buy'em) but that was about 1960. Apparently all this smoke in the air has fossilized my thinking apparatus.

[AppyPappy]

I was in NC at the time.

[TheRightGuy]

I was in NC at the time.

That would make cents. I was in Illinois.

[Gabz]

I wouldn't assume that all smokers know that they have a 15% chance of getting lung cancer.

Actually, according to most information - smokers OVER estimate, rather than underestimate the risks involved in their habit.

A lot of smokers don't like to hear these facts, and I don't blame them.

I didn't realize that edtimates of increased risks were known as facts. The reason most smokers don't like hearing all of this is because we are sick and tired of it. and we know that most of it is over exageration, or as you say in the case of second hand smoke - it's a scam.

Unfortunately your average person has no idea of the significance, or lack thereof, of the terms used about all of this. Epidemiology and statistics are not exact science and the numbers determined for risks using either science can, and are, manipulated anyway the antis want them to be.

Remember, figures don't lie, but liars figure!!!!

[lds23]

I ordered a pack of Marlboros. Now if only they could deliver cold beer, I'd never have to leave the house!

[jenny65]

I smoke, it’s a dirty nasty filthy habit but hey, I’ve helped pay for the Browns and Indians stadium (sin tax) and now I’m paying more tax to help balance the state budget. Doesn’t that entitle me to a little respect? Perhaps not.

EXACTLY! Non-smokers should be THANKING us for all the money added to the state budget. Every time someone bitches about me smoking, I want to point to a park bench or something and say "See that? I paid for it! Now shut up!"

Besides the taxes, they can also thank me for the huge windfall from the bogus "tobacco settlement" that many states participated in. Funny how all that money was supposed to go toward anti-smoking education and health care. Yet where has the money really been spent? Who knows.

You're right about it being a filthy habit. I admit it, and I won't smoke around others unless I know they don't mind. I have no problem with non-smokers who don't like the smell. It's the militant anti-smokers who start yelling about how I'm killing them with second-hand smoke that piss me off to no end.

[Gabz]

It's the militant anti-smokers who start yelling about how I'm killing them with second-hand smoke that piss me off to no end.

The ones I have the most fun with are the ones that start the stomping and hollering at just the sight of an UNLIT cigarette.

Talk about brainwashed..........SHEESH

[VA Advogado]

I ordered a pack of Marlboros. Now if only they could deliver cold beer, I'd never have to leave the house!

And a date :)

[fone]

LOL! Right on! You go girl!

I've come to the conclusion there are 3 types of smokers:

1. Non-smokers
2. Smokers
3. Anti-smokers.

#3 being the most militant of course; usually from the same crowd that screams for tolerance!

Maybe it's time to pass an extra tax on being a whiner. Let's call it a HALO tax (for those in the class of human beings "superior" to the smokers). After all, socialism is supposed to be "FAIR!!!!"

/rant

[VA Advogado]

That's why, before you buy off of the Net, you ask them if they turn in their customer list. Some have. But the ones we post in here do NOT! Your safe! :)

That's why were I to buy online, I would go thru the international place. I didnt know that the domestic sellers have a choice in following federal law?

[VA Advogado]

We love ya FONE!

[VA Advogado]

You're right about it being a filthy habit. I admit it, and I won't smoke around others unless I know they don't mind. I have no problem with non-smokers who don't like the smell. It's the militant anti-smokers who start yelling about how I'm killing them with second-hand smoke that piss me off to no end.

Awe, we still luv yah here Jenny. :)

[Ben Bolt]

Hold on .... I'm going to go get 1 , and a glass of sherry also ! That should get 'em ;)