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Internet Smoke Buyers In the Crosshairs
RushLimbaugh.com ^ | 15 OCT 02 | Rush Limbaugh

Posted on 10/16/2002 9:06:13 PM PDT by greydog

Those of you who buy cigarettes on the Internet are about to be targeted by states that claim to want you to stop smoking, but secretly want to reap obscene profits from your addiction. Yes, the federal Jenkins Act will be invoked to stop you from avoiding state taxes by buying your cancer sticks online.

The General Accounting Office looked at 147 websites that sell cigarettes, and came to a startling conclusion: none of them complied with rules requiring them to track who purchases the smokes. Now, I've long said that it's your duty to smoke – because these people who say how evil it is, always talk about how many great, socialist programs they're going to fund off your addiction. They give the money to schools, which says to me, "We have to smoke, for the sake of our children."

The United Nations dares not enforce one resolution Saddam Hussein has broken, yet these same Eurocrats, these same linguini-spined cowards, are meeting to wipe out cigarette smuggling worldwide even as you read this! While the GAO is mobilizing trying to find out a way to collect the billion-and-a-half dollars lost in smuggled cigarette revenue annually, the UN is doing the same. The World Health Organization - which suppressed its own study which found that second hand smoke was harmless - is on board too.

If smoking is so bad, why not just ban it? If it will kill you and anyone within 20 miles of you, shouldn't you just ban it completely? We don't tax murder, do we? No. Yet they say that we are talking as much as $1.5 billion in revenue "losses" to states, and when people stop smoking, cities like New York complain about the lost revenue - they never rejoice.

An international tobacco-control treaty aiming to limit the sale, promotion and smuggling of cigarettes has entered a "crucial stage." Negotiators from 190 countries are meeting in Geneva as we speak to hammer out the final details of a global treaty designed to curb smoking. So is this crusade about stopping people from smoking or about raising money? Clearly it's about the cash. I mean, the world is under attack from terrorists, and the world bureaucrats are focused on tobacco!


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Editorial; Government
KEYWORDS: pufflist; tobacco
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I bought a SupermaticII ($30) cigarette making machine, and now make 5 packs of cigs for ~$4, which is the cost of the "tubes" and bulk premium tobacco.

I find it relaxing and theraputic to dick the tobacco-nazis out of thier extortion taxes in the 15 minutes it takes to make that 1/2 carton ofcigs.

1 posted on 10/16/2002 9:06:13 PM PDT by greydog
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To: greydog
I bought a SupermaticII ($30) cigarette making machine...

Me too, it is nice to puff away in the privacy of my home while stickin to the the tax mongers.

2 posted on 10/16/2002 9:10:53 PM PDT by seeker41
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To: greydog
Just don't sell them to the kiddies and turn a 1000% profit. That would be EEEvil Uh oh. I sense this turning into a drug war thread.
3 posted on 10/16/2002 9:11:56 PM PDT by Callahan
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To: greydog
It's simple. Buy tobacco from Sovereign Indian Nations...
4 posted on 10/16/2002 9:14:26 PM PDT by ApesForEvolution
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To: ApesForEvolution
I'm not trying to plug any company here but I've sampled four or five different brands of bulk tobacco, and I've found that "Old Hillside" is the best, in my opinion.

That takes into consideration the cut, moisture, consistancy, density and price.

5 posted on 10/16/2002 9:22:21 PM PDT by greydog
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To: seeker41
These smoke rollers. Are you smoking non-filtered smokes?
6 posted on 10/16/2002 9:24:59 PM PDT by Michael Barnes
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To: unix
No, smoking the filter type. You can buy them with the filters to stuff your own.
Go here http://www.stuffyourown.com/
7 posted on 10/16/2002 9:28:25 PM PDT by seeker41
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To: greydog
I ought get into the smokes business.
8 posted on 10/16/2002 9:31:28 PM PDT by Dan from Michigan
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To: greydog
The U.N. is against cigarette smoking but for abortion. Actually what they are against is tax revenue that they believe is being lost and should be going to liberal governments instead of into consumers pockets. This is the democrats real objection to war - they have promised their constituencies that money will go to wasteful social programs and any money that goes to defense instead is money that doesn't go to their socialist promises.
9 posted on 10/16/2002 10:08:37 PM PDT by Contra
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To: *puff_list; SheLion
http://www.freerepublic.com/perl/bump-list
10 posted on 10/16/2002 10:14:05 PM PDT by Free the USA
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To: seeker41
I'm on a health kick right now, so I only smoked filtered. Thank you for the link.
11 posted on 10/16/2002 10:15:16 PM PDT by Lee_Atwater
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To: dbwz
bump
12 posted on 10/16/2002 10:16:14 PM PDT by PistolPaknMama
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To: Lee_Atwater
Sure, I want to bankrupt the evil smokinazis.
13 posted on 10/16/2002 10:17:44 PM PDT by seeker41
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To: greydog
Don't worry, they'll get you sooner or later.
14 posted on 10/16/2002 10:18:35 PM PDT by Rodney King
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To: RJCogburn
Mr RATS: I have a writ here that says you are to stop your socialist nanny state policies forthwith. Now it's a RAT writ writ for a RAT, and this is lawful service of same.
15 posted on 10/16/2002 10:26:56 PM PDT by Ken H
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To: Callahan
Of course
16 posted on 10/17/2002 3:26:21 AM PDT by Maelstrom
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To: Ken H
Judge Parker....old carpet bagger but he knows his rats. We had a good court here til them pettifoggin' lawyers showed up. The rat catcher's too tough on the rats, they say. Gotta give them rats a fair shake.
17 posted on 10/17/2002 3:59:00 AM PDT by RJCogburn
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To: greydog
Isn't it amazing that most of our laws now come out of the UN? And the idiot nicotine nazis cheer...
18 posted on 10/17/2002 4:06:10 AM PDT by Lion's Cub
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To: greydog; *puff_list; Just another Joe; Great Dane; Max McGarrity; Tumbleweed_Connection; maxwell; ..
Just received your ping!

We have rolled our own for over a year now. The savings is mind boggling. Love it! Haven't looked back. And by not paying into the state coffers any more just makes it all the sweeter!


19 posted on 10/17/2002 8:41:47 AM PDT by SheLion
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To: greydog
I find it relaxing and theraputic to dick the tobacco-nazis out of thier extortion taxes in the 15 minutes it takes to make that 1/2 carton ofcigs.

WOW, I have been stuffing my own for over a year, I can still only do a pack in the time you do four....... must pratice more. :-}

20 posted on 10/17/2002 8:47:49 AM PDT by Great Dane
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