If you are a smoker...this may piss you off.

Discussion in 'The Red Room' started by [theDarkest_noir], Apr 29, 2008.

  1. [theDarkest_noir]

    [theDarkest_noir] restless soul.

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    I personally just quit, but this is such propaganda bullshit. First all the smoking bans, now this. Please tell me this isn't true...does anyone know anything about this??

    and here's a link to the report:
    http://www.foxnews.com/projects/pdf/Cigarette_smuggling_042408.pdf

    Why, in this day and age, does EVERYTHING lead to terrorists?
  2. Lt. Mewa

    Lt. Mewa Rockefeller Center

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    I heard that some of those bootleg cigs are actually better then the legit ones. Less tar and nicotine.
  3. Ward

    Ward A Stepford Husband

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    I suspect the real issue is taxes and taking more money from more people.
  4. Marso

    Marso High speed, low drag.

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  5. Patch

    Patch Version 2.7

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    [QUOTE='[theDarkest_noir]Why, in this day and age, does EVERYTHING lead to terrorists?[/QUOTE]It doesn't. Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia.
  6. Dan Leach

    Dan Leach Climbing Staff Member Moderator

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    Easy answer...
    Buy ciggies (cause they are grate and make you look dead adult and hard) but dont buy them from eeeevil smugglers... simple :)
  7. oldfella1962

    oldfella1962 the only real finish line

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    Buy tobaaco, papers and a rolling machine and make your own!
    My parents did this when times were tough.
    Me and my sister even rolled them for our parents.
    I'm sure today that would be child abuse.....but neither of us smoke!
  8. Bobcat

    Bobcat Guest

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    The answer to your question is contained in the article:

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  9. Dan Leach

    Dan Leach Climbing Staff Member Moderator

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    I roll my own, with baccy bought in portugal.
    It costs the average smoker in the uk £35-£40 (im not jokin)a week to smoke, it costs me about £3 :D :P
  10. [theDarkest_noir]

    [theDarkest_noir] restless soul.

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    I have some friends who did that, I go to college in east tennessee so it's not that out of place out here. Anyone with a truck is most likely driving with an open can of beer, but at least they aren't shooting at you...yet.

    If I still smoked I would definitely, thought about it too...I'm just tired of getting winded going up a flight of stairs or running for 50 ft., walking up a hill,...the list goes on. I have been toying with the idea of pipe tobacco for a while now though.
  11. Elwood

    Elwood I know what I'm about, son.

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    Okay, I'm gonna condense that article for those of you at home.

    :dayton:
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  12. Zombie

    Zombie dead and loving it

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    Yep the terrorist angle is just to gloss over the, "WAHHHHHHHHHHH :sob: WE WANT OUR TAX MONEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :sob:"

    Anyways does Garamet smoke? Someone send her a pack and I'll call Gitmo. ;)
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  13. Powaqqatsi

    Powaqqatsi Haters gonna hate.

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    [quote='[theDarkest_noir]Why, in this day and age, does EVERYTHING lead to terrorists?[/quote]

    It's a "good" (read: bad) way to get people to buy into the bullshit and think it's eviiiil?
  14. Zombie

    Zombie dead and loving it

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