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| Topic Started: Sep 10 2009, 02:43 PM (202 Views) | |
| Union | Sep 10 2009, 02:43 PM Post #1 |
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Pyrenees Republic
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Ban my cloves, will you! Well phooey! I will buy online, and not pay tax! So there! *waits patiently for his five cartons of Djarum to arrive in the mail* |
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| Abenakia | Sep 10 2009, 03:48 PM Post #2 |
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I stocked up on about 4 cartons before the ban went in. Hail, the black market. |
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| Rhadamanthus | Sep 10 2009, 04:38 PM Post #3 |
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I don't understand. Why are they banning them? |
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| Tristan da Cunha | Sep 10 2009, 04:55 PM Post #4 |
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Nice summary from wikipedia.
http://www.thebigmoney.com/articles/judgments/2009/06/08/cool-refreshing-legislation-philip-morris?page=full
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| Union | Sep 10 2009, 05:21 PM Post #5 |
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Because they have a "flavor". Of course, cloves account for less than 1% of sales in the USA, compared to menthol, the cigarette of the black community, which remain untouched and have a 27% market share. It is a stupid law meant to pander to the liberal core of the Democratic Party, while not doing much of anything except to the few souls who actually enjoyed clove cigarettes. This is the same core which would love to legalize marijuana, in a contradiction that has never been adequately explained or understood by myself. This bill is politics and corporate lobbying at its very essence. It is disgusting. |
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| New Harumf | Sep 10 2009, 05:48 PM Post #6 |
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Be sure to find out if the company you are ordering from reports your purchases to the state Internal Revenue Service. If they do, you may find yourself with a big tax bill at the end of the year! |
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| Abenakia | Sep 10 2009, 06:00 PM Post #7 |
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Doesn't it suck to be part of a demonized minority? |
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| Draxis | Sep 10 2009, 06:00 PM Post #8 |
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If you need flavored tobacco I suggest switching over to Shisha. Of course the only problem is that you need a hookah, and its kind of stationary. But its a good replacement. |
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| Union | Sep 10 2009, 06:18 PM Post #9 |
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It's not cloves. :sad: |
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| Draxis | Sep 10 2009, 08:26 PM Post #10 |
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Yeah its 100x better. :P |
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| NRE | Sep 10 2009, 09:12 PM Post #11 |
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You know it wasn't until they thought about banning in door smoking at restaurants that I realized my town has like two hookah bars. The law put them into a good pickle, so as a compromise they moved the hookahs outdoors. |
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| Al Araam | Sep 10 2009, 09:16 PM Post #12 |
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I'm sure you can get cloves flavored shisha. Hell, if you can get pipe tobacco flavored shisha I'm pretty sure you can find anything. |
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| Nag Ehgoeg | Sep 12 2009, 07:53 AM Post #13 |
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The Devil's Advocate
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And now I want to smoke... I spent all last night resisting the urge to smoke some truly premium weed. Now I want to smoke the most delicious type of regular cigarette there is. .... Actually I can see why they got banned. Methol sucks ass, would not tempt me in the slightest. The mere mention of cloves has got the addiction centre of my brain blazing and I've only smoked them once. Those are tasty, tasty cigarettes. |
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| Union | Sep 16 2009, 02:57 PM Post #14 |
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The cartons came in today! Really cheap, as well - roughly $2 a pack. Djarum went for about $10 a pack before. I should have done this ages ago. Thank you government, for showing me, indirectly, the path! |
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| Abnar | Oct 5 2009, 11:58 AM Post #15 |
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Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the lurkiest of them all?
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Found this on BB, thought you clove smokers might be interested. http://www.flickr.com/photos/catastrophegirl/sets/72157622017594810/ |
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