FIGHT BACK AGAINST THE NEW CIGARETTE TAX AND FIRE SAFE CIGARETTES (all of MA)
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Date: 2008-05-07, 12:17PM EDT
If you don't smoke, you may very well feel that smokers don't deserve any break and that it perfectly fine to mandate a much more noxious product if it even slightly reduces tragic fires started by cigarettes. That is your right, but I am not addressing non-smokers, although I would hope that your concern for people extends occasionally even to us.
I am talking to the people who are consuming this inferior and overtaxed product. Maybe we can eventually have fire safe cigarettes that are also palatable, but we have to raise our voices as tobacco consumers and citizens of a state that both milks us and treats us with contempt.
Then they kicked us out of your favorite bars.
Now, mysterious "fire safe' cigarettes are forced on us that taste and smell heavily like chemicals. Sometimes, they go out unless smoked constantly. Sometimes, they burn all the way into the filter if left on an ashtray. All the paper is made by one company.
On top of all that, they spiked the sales taxes on cigarettes.
There are ways for smokers to fight back against this unholy alliance of government, big tobacco and probably insurance lobbyists.
If you can, quit smoking. It will extend your lifespan and increase the quality of that life.
If you do not wish to do so, consider the following steps.
1. Stop playing the lottery in MA, and tell your representatives why at http://www.mass.gov/legis/
It may not shake the foundation of the legislature, but it will get attention.
2. Visit http://www.ryomagazine.com and learn about making your own tobacco blends, choices in papers, tubes, and rolling machines vs. injectors.
3. Make a fresh pack of your own high quality filter luxury cigarettes in the time it takes to drive to the store for around $1.50 a pack by going to http://www.cigarettetobacco.com
I suggest Windsail Platinum, Two Timer Gold, Rowland Gold, and Vangeur Platinum. Use a premier excel tube injector and Veracruz elite white tubes. Tobacco is sold in big bags or 3.5 oz cups.
I do not work for either of those two companies and provide this information for those who smoke to save money and take control over what goes into their cigarettes.
I thank you for your time.
Location: all of MA
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