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Administrator — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 07:41:17 +0000

Smoking is pretty incredible. It’s a fact. Recently a National Study was done about smoking and the effect it has on not only the physical wellbeing of an individual, but on the mental wellbeing of an individual as well. While I’m not at liberty to divulge who funded this study, nor am I at liberty to reveal the nature of the test sample, I do think that you will find some of the findings of the study to be quite enlightening and interesting. One of the subsections of this comprehensive study involved querying subjects on the times when smoking a cigarette is most satisfying and pleasurable. I cannot confirm if this line of questioning will be used in planning future advertising campaigns, as that would imply that the funders of this study have a financial stake in the production and distribution of cigarettes, which I am not at liberty to confirm or deny. I have been given permission, however, to list some of the most satisfying tax free cigarettes the average smoker enjoys in his or her day to life.

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Administrator — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 07:40:57 +0000

The government of Ontario suffers from profound hypocrisy. As of yesterday, all stores selling cigarettes may no longer have them on display. online cigarettes must be hidden from view on the premise that people will smoke less if they can’t see the "power wall" of cigarettes. Right! As if that will make a difference. The government, which controls the selling and taxing of cigarettes, also controls the selling and taxing of alcohol. Several times per year, the LCBO (Liquor Control Board of Ontario) sends free to every home in Ontario a glossy, tax-funded, (I’m sure expensive to produce) magazine advertising all the different brands, bottles and kinds of alcohol available at the LCBO. The LCBO even has a nice web presence paid for, undoubtedly, by the tax-payer. How does that make sense? Further, alcohol causes more problems in society than smoking. If you smoke, you’ll kill yourself. Pretty stupid but, OK, smoke if you want. Alcohol, although it can and may be used responsibly, wreaks a lot of havoc in society. If you get drunk, and drive, you may well kill someone else. If you are a drunk at home, you will "kill" your marriage and family.

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Administrator — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 07:40:33 +0000

The УpowerwallsФ are tumbling down. Convenience stores will now have to keep their tobacco products out of sight. The move is to protect youngsters from being bombarded with a dramatic cigarette display every time they walk into the corner store. According to those responsible for banning open displays of tobacco products in convenience stores, the cigarette powerwall, positioned beside the candy and gum, is a powerful sales tool aimed right at young kids. Most parents understand how gullible little kids are. We know where our little ones get their ideas for their Christmas УwishФ lists Ц Saturday morning television shows. Tobacco companies have been banned from advertising their products by sponsoring such programs. In fact, those powerwalls are about all they have left as an advertising tool, and they are making the most of them. While fewer people than ever are smoking, the number of teenagers in Ontario who smoke remains disturbingly high, about 18 per cent, according to the Heart and Stroke Foundation. The same studies indicate about a third of adult smokers took up the habit when they were under 12 years old, and by the time they hit high school, more than half of our kids have tried cigarettes. Something must be done to cut those numbers. Those opposed to the ban on powerwall discount cigarettes advertising say it is time for a reality check.

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Administrator — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 07:40:07 +0000

ALBANYЧCigarettes went up another $1.25 a pack in New York State Tuesday with the implementation of an additional excise tax which supporters claim will help smokers quit and prevent youth from starting.But opponents donТt agree. Rather than compelling New Yorkers to quit smoking, the June 3 cigarette tax increase will cause millions of smokers to shift their purchases to unlicensed, unregulated, untaxed sources of supply. УSadly, itТs just going to feed the cigarette tax evasion epidemic that the State of New York has allowed to run rampant for the past 10 years,Ф said James Calvin, president of the New York Association of Convenience Stores. УNew York already loses $1 billion annually due to Сtax freeТ sales by Internet vendors, Native American tribal stores, and black market entrepreneurs,Ф he said. УHalf the smokers in New York State admit buying from these outlets. The tax hike nearly doubles the incentive for the rest of them to follow suit.Ф NYACS predicts the intensified tax evasion stampede will be disastrous for state revenues, public health, and small businesses. They say: ЦIt will hinder, rather than help, anti-smoking efforts by driving more sales to outlets beyond the reach of tobacco regulation, such as monitoring by state or local health departments to detect and punish sales of cheap cigarettes to children.

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Administrator — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 07:38:59 +0000

This is true enough, and I’ve often made a similar argument. But honest opponents of prohibition have to admit that leakage from the adult market for any legal intoxicant is inevitable. Note that the rate for past-month alcohol consumption in the same survey was 45 percent, making it more than twice as common among teenagers as pot smoking. (That’s up from 43 percent in 2005 but the same as in 2003.) To project the impact that repealing prohibition would have on underage pot smoking, you need to weigh the effect of regulation against the effect of easier, safer, and cheaper availability to adults. Then there’s the question of how much weight should be attached to the risk of increased consumption by minors. To me, underage free cigarettes smoking is more troubling (legal issues aside) than underage drinking or pot smoking, because it is much more likely to result in a long-term habit that has serious health consequences. Others, focusing on the immediate psychoactive effects and the associated risk of reckless behavior or academic disruption, may worry more about alcohol and pot. I am not conceding, by the way, that a utilitarian analysis like this one is the right way to find the ideal drug policy. If adults have a fundamental right to control their bodies and the chemicals that go into them, the possibility that some may deliberately or accidentally share those chemicals with minors does not justify violating that right. But most Americans do not accept that premise, so predictions about how repealing prohibition would affect The Children are unavoidable.

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Administrator — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 07:38:30 +0000

The cigarette use figure represents a sharp drop from the 2005 survey, when it was 23 percent. Marijuana use, at 20.2 percent in 2005, showed a much smaller decline…. Another report released this week, the Fiscal Year 2007 Annual Synar Report on tobacco sales to youth, showed the 10th straight annual decline in the rate of illegal tobacco sales to minors. In 1997, 40.1 percent of retailers violated laws against tobacco sales to minors. In 2007 the rate had dropped to just 10.5 percent, the lowest ever. "Efforts to curb cigarettes sales to teens have been wildly successful, and it’s past time we applied those lessons to marijuana," said Aaron Houston, director of government relations for the Marijuana Policy Project in Washington, D.C. "Tobacco retailers can be fined or put out of business if they sell to kids, but prohibition guarantees that we have zero control over marijuana dealers. Foolish policies have guaranteed that the marijuana industry is completely unregulated."

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Administrator — Thu, 15 May 2008 13:50:20 +0000

Cigarettes in local retail stores have become a luxury because of enormous taxes. That’s why internet on-line stores have gotten very popular recently. For example: in NYC buying cigarettes, besides cigarettes price, you pay $1,50 NY State tax, $1,50 NYC tax, sales tax per every carton. Let’s take a look on the 7-Eleven store on Hanover Street in Boston’s North End. It sells a carton of Marlboros for $55.75. And in NY, the same carton of Marlboro costs around $70 depending on different local shops. At the same time for ordering 1 carton of Marlboro cigarettes through Internet, the price may vary from $16 to $32.
States and city governments are earnestly trying to cover budget shortfalls by boosting cigarette taxes.
When local tax rates ascend into the stratosphere, more smokers turn to the Web, making online retailers a tempting target.
In general, Internet sellers do not have to collect sales taxes on shipments made to other states (the National Governors Association is hoping to persuade Congress to change this).
States, cities, etc. tell us that increasing taxes on cigarettes will make people smoke less. The real reson is to increase treasury’s income of course.
Today however one of the few ways to pay for your favorite cigarettes a fair and affordable price is to order them online.

International trade - stores located out of the USA

Delivery time is between 10 days and 4 weeks. The taste of the cigarettes is different from the American made. 1 carton of Marlboro costs between $16-$23 including shipping. This is much cheaper than in American and tribal-run online stores.

Safety problem consists of 3 main questions:

1. Is it legal to order cigarettes in international online stores?
Regulation of international mail is carried out on the basis of Universal Postal Union (UPU) Convention, pursuant to which delivery of cigarettes by mail is LEGAL. At the same time, there is Imported Cigarette Compliance Act of 2000 which pretends to regulate importation of cigarettes.
There is a difference between importing cigarettes for personal and commercial use. Commercial importers are required by the Federal Trade Commission to properly label packaging of tobacco products in accordance with the Cigarette Labeling and Advertisement Act.
There are four Surgeon General’s warning labels that must be placed on each packet. These labels must be rotated on cigarette packing in accordance with a plan filed and approved by the FTC, prior to importation into the U.S.
BUT THE ABOVE IS NOT APPLICABLE TO THE CUSTOMERS BECAUSE THEY RECEIVE CIGARETTES FOR THEIR PERSONAL USE and your parcel is not subject to the Imported Cigarette Compliance Act of 2000.
Summing up previous information we can draw the conclusion that it is quite legal to order cigarettes by international mail in a small quantity for personal use.

2. Is it necessary to pay taxes at reception of mail from abroad?
In general the answer is yes, but situation never makes it possible. The only governmental body to treat parcels is US Customs. And it doesn’t impose payment for parcels fur to the following reasons:

It takes enormous time for customs to treat small parcels because a few customs officers have to deal with millions of parcels.
The customs is a Federal Institution and it can impose only duty that cannot exceed 3% of cargo’s cost and probably federal excise tax which is $3.90 per carton ($0.39 per pack). And the cost price for preparing necessary documentation for one parcel containing 1 carton $20 worth is much higher than $4.50 ($3.90+$0.6) duty receivable.
We’ve never heard of situations when customs imposed duty for somebody’s parcel.

3. What is the value of risks involved?
The only risk is that your parcel (or parcels) won’t reach the destination. It may be lost, stolen or confiscated. But all the above have very small influence upon customer, because in the majority of cases, the online shop either reships the cigarettes or issues full refunds. And moreover, customer can file a back charge with his bank and/or CC Company to receive the amount paid back. Confiscations occur in very rare cases because of the wrong application of the Imported Cigarette Compliance Act of 2000. In this case customer gets the letter notification that he can dispute this confiscation. And most important, neither City, nor State can ask the customer to pay taxes (to recover the money tied up you should contact the merchant first of all).
The next important issue is that US Postal Service (USPS) that delivers international parcels doesn’t disclose any information, and moreover it even doesn’t store any information about the content inside packages delivered. While private carriers like FedEx, UPS Inc. and DHL agreed to cease delivery of cigarettes to consumers throughout the United States, United States Postal Service is the only one left among major carriers who refused to comply with this law and continues to deliver cigarettes to individuals, explaining that they do not agree they have the power to inspect personal packages to determine what they contain. You may view a brief story about famous international cigarettes store Yesmoke here…

Summary:
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- delivery time is longer

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Administrator — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 08:06:56 +0000

The program gets its funding from the California Tobacco Health Protection Act of 1988 Ч known as Proposition 99 Ч which added 25 cents to the state discount cigarettes tax in order to fund tobacco prevention and education programs. In 1996, the County also joined a lawsuit by a group of other counties against the tobacco industry which resulted in a large settlement as retribution for the mounting healthcare costs absorbed by county health departments. Under the auspices of the Tobacco Settlement Advisory Committee, Santa Barbara County receives $4 million per year (for 25 years from the original date), with the monies to be used for Уprevention, treatment, infrastructure and other health.Ф The settlement also required tobacco companies to remove billboard advertising and advertising in sports arenas, remove cartoon characters from advertisements, cease marketing to young people, and make many of their internal documents available to the public.

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Administrator — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 10:36:53 +0000

УBusiness is not good. We already have an uneven playing field between the chain stores in our community and the local businesses downtown and on The Commons,Ф Peterson said. If Council bans smoking on The Commons, business owners Уcould stand to lose up to 20 percent of our customers, while at the same time people would be allowed to chain smoke until they drop outside every big box store in Ithaca.Ф Alderman Dan Cogan, D-5th, referenced the potential negative impact on Commons bars and restaurants to explain why he favors a partial ban and would oppose a blanket ban on The Commons. Zumoff said he thinks, on the contrary, more people would come to The Commons if they knew they wouldn’t Уbe bothered with buy cheap camel smoke.Ф Schiele, the tobacco-free coordinator, favors a partial smoking ban on The Commons and a total ban during any event where organizers need to get a permit to gather. In addition to protecting non-smokers from second-hand smoke and minimizing examples of smoking that children see, Schiele Ч a former smoker Ч said a smoking ban could help smokers quit. According to a 2006 survey of Tompkins County adults, half of those who currently smoke want to quit, Schiele said. УI still smell discount camel smoke and if it’s at the right concentration, I say, Сboy that smells good,’Ф he said. УFor the smokers who want to quit, this is one thing we can do to help them, is try to get it out of their face.Ф

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Administrator — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 11:38:46 +0000

Having to stand up in public and speak can be really nerve racking. It’s a common phobia that a lot of people have. It’s a nervousness that all eyes are suddenly on you. Everyone is listening to every word you say. It can be truly terrifying. If it’s something that makes you very nervous, then there’s no doubt that you are going to want a cigarettes right before you do it. Maybe having a quick smoke will ease your nerves about giving the speech a little. The Davidoff Cigarettes will get you calm at least until you are forced to look at everyone’s faces. Those blank faces in the crowd waiting to hear what you have to say to them. But you shouldn’t be too worried. After all, you wrote out your speech ahead of time. Or maybe you practiced in front of the mirror. You decided that this hand gesture should go with this part of the speech. You practiced your pitch and your tone of voice. The speech is completely laid out beforehand. All you have to do is go ahead and say it. And that shouldn’t be too hard. After all, you talk all the time. But what if you get up there in front of that giant crowd and your most recent cigarette has dried out your throat? You croak instead of speaking that fantastically catchy opening line that you’ve been practicing. Well it’s all par for the course when you are a smoker.