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  • UPS agrees to end cigarette deliveries to individuals

    10/25/2005 6:59:09 AM PDT · by SheLion · 85 replies · 2,293+ views
    United Pro Smoker's Newsletter ^ | 24 Oct 05 | MICHAEL GORMLEY
    ALBANY, N.Y. - The world's largest shipping carrier, UPS Inc., will stop delivering cigarettes to individuals in the United States under an agreement announced Monday with state Attorney General Eliot Spitzer.The agreement is the latest in federal and state efforts to combat the sale of under-taxed cigarette and to fight underage smoking. Most under-taxed or untaxed cigarettes are sold by Indian tribes, where the taxation of sales to non-Indians is disputed.Monday's agreement leaves only the U.S. Postal Service among major carriers to continue to deliver cigarettes to individuals, Spitzer said. He called that practice "an embarrassment." Spitzer continues to negotiate...