Internet Smoke Shops Lure Tax-Averse Cigarette Buyers

Newhouse News Service ^

[usconservative]

I'm not a smoker (and I'm not a rabid anti-smoker) but anything that screws the government out of tax dollars legally, is OK in my book!

Smoke 'em if you got 'em!

[goldstategop]

The tobacco nazis are royally pissed. And the states are going to see the elusive tax dollars they had counted on blow up in smoke along with the hefty tax increases they've piled on.

[goldstategop]

Rob Crane thinks I shouldn't be able to shop around for the product I want at a price I can afford. So much for the liberal mantra about "choice."

[metesky]

$9.50 a carton for Senecas, five cartons at a time delivered right to your door.

$9.50
x5
_____
$47.50
+$7.50 delivery
______
$55.00

$1.10 a pack! Welcome to the eighties.

[PJ-Comix]

"Eighty percent are Indian reservations," he says. "They never report anything to anybody."

Yeah, I can just picture some tax official from Ohio asking an Indian reservation, "Could we have a list of your customers?"

And the Indian reservation guy replies, "What's this 'We', Kemosabe?"

[PJ-Comix]

I'm not a smoker. How much do packs normally sell for?

[ikka]

"It ought to be illegal to sell across state borders," says Crane, who is also part of a campaign to raise the smoking age to 21.

It ought to be illegal to be a doctor in the USA without having a working knowledge of the US Constitution.

[BJungNan]

Link please?

[PJ-Comix]

I just checked the Seneca cigarette website. A carton of Marlboros sells for $31.05. What kind of cigarettes are you ordering that you get them for only $9.50 per carton?

[watcher1]

Thanks for the post
I'm enjoying an internet cigarette as I type.
It sure tastes good!

[mlibertarianj]

Dr. Rob Crane will end up being the hero to the La Cosa Nostra, for revivng the black market. Hey Doc, the LEO community has enough on its' table as it is.

[PJ-Comix]

[Zon]

And the Indian reservation guy replies, "What's this 'We', Kemosabe?"

"We're from the government and we're here to help."

I wonder how far back in time/history that phrase originates.

[UB355]

I bought a carton of Dorals last week at a Indian Casino in Lac Du Flambau WI for $21.50. Goes for around $32.00 locally. Love those Indians. (no mention of the $60.00 I left in their video poker machines, heck I was on vacation)

[The Chief]

Now it's been a few years since I have been a smoker, but someone sent this link via e-mail for the smokers on that list...

http://yesmoke.com/eng/

Duty free smokes

[Bella_Bru]

'Kiss my butt nico-nazis!' ping! :-)

[VA Advogado]

"It ought to be illegal to sell across state borders," says Crane, who is also part of a campaign to raise the smoking age to 21."

Actually, there is a federal law that REQUIRES these vendors to report the names of the people they sell to out of state. That law has been on the books for years, or at least it was when I last check in the mid 80's. Why they don't raise that in the story, I dont know. And indian reservations really are not that great a deal. Maybe 3-4 bucks cheaper and no sales tax. The real bargin is found here:

http://yesmoke.com/eng/index.asp

[VA Advogado]

I'm enjoying an internet cigarette as I type.

LOL

[VA Advogado]

"We're from the government and we're here to help."

Something tells me the Indians have heard that line before. :)