UPDATE
for 5 February 2008
Here's another
tobacco news update for you, providing items
of interest to smokers and anyone else interested
in good deals, in justice, and in telling
it like it is.
In
a hurry? Take a look at these updated
Web Pages:
Anti-Smoking
Hysteria -
Okay!
So, just in case you've been wondering
. . . the answer is definitely YES:
Yes,
today's Anti-Smoking
Hysteria is no haphazard accidental development.
In fact, it has been engineered, funded, and
very intentionally generated by powerful
economic interests that stand to make zillions
by making you and other smokers suffer hugely
unfair punitive taxation, social ostracism,
invasive and humiliating legal bans and social
taboos, tax attacks, embarrassment, and psychological
distress.
The
interests behind the recent hysteria are
known today as the Pharmaceutical Industrial
Complex. They are the most powerful economic
force on earth after the Military Industrial
Complex and, perhaps, Big Oil. This blindly
profit driven force has pored hundreds of
millions of dollars into bogus junk science
and international anti-smoking campaigns.
They're doing this, of course, because they
stand to make even larger amounts in the
lucrative smoking cessation business. Have
we been had by them? You bet we have! Read
details and more on this below. . .
BAD Cigarette Tax States -
I included something like this in another
update and it was very popular, so here it
is again. These states are known to be very
aggressive in going after smokers to get "their" cigarettes
taxes, they are the lands of the Tax Surprise!
- New
Jersey,
- Pennsylvania,
- Washington,
- Michigan,
- New York,
- California.
And there are certainly
others. But if you live in one of these, you
MUST protect your privacy or you WILL receive
a tax bill for online tobacco purchases.
SSO
is the only safe source I know of for residents
of these states: SSO
smokers' savings site.
If you have smoker friends any of in these
states,
do them a favor and forward
this email to them!
Do you know of other states that are actively
pursuing smokers with tax bills for online
cigarette purchases? If so, please send me
some details so I can pass them along. Thanks.
Why Not DutyFree or Indian Sites for Smokes?
I'm
always going on about SSO, our very private
smokers' buyers club. And there are good
reasons for that. Among them is the fact
of how very bad the alternative
online sources really are!
Let's
get real about this: You should avoid both
DF and Native American online cigarettes
sources like the plague. It's as simple as
that. Buying from them is like playing Russian
Roulette. . .
DF
Site Problems:
In the case of overseas DF
sources, you may have
problems with having to pay duty (tax) on your
smokes, or you might have the US Customs Service
seizing your order. Either event can be a major
pain, and worrying about them is certainly
a pain too. Then, of course, there are the
long and uncertain delivery delays, uncertain
product quality, and the questionable ethical
practices of these firms, some of which are
rumored to be controlled by international
crime syndicates. I personally know of more
than one person who has been "scr__ed" by
them.
Indian
Sites Problems:
Indian
tobacco sites are, of course, businesses
that are located within the United States
judicial system. That makes them subject
to browbeating, threats, and intimidation
by all sorts of government types. These threats
lead these good folks to report your purchases
to your state's tax authorities, and that
leads to YOU getting a big TAX surprise from
them. Any company that is within US jurisdiction
can be expected to report you, and that means.
. . ALL the Native American Indian site.
Stay clear of them.
Payment
Method Problems:
The main problem that shared
by both DF
and Indian sites is their Payment Methods.
Your bank or credit card company is in the
middle of your transaction, they keep records,
and they may report your purchases. You
leave a paper trail with them and it can
come back to haunt you.
This problem of tobacco-hostile banks and
cc companies is exactly why SSO turned to using
its own private payment systems. Your purchases
are totally discrete with SSO's private systems,
they happen under the radar, off the screen,
they leave no telltale paper trail. And that
makes this the only really safe way to buy
smokes discreetly online.
SSO's
Solutions:
SSO, of course, does NOT accept
Credit Cards or Bank e-Checks for purchases
because those payment methods can compromise
your privacy and lead to unexpected tax bills
and other informational woes with insurers
or bosses. SSO's
PRIVATE PAYMENT SYSTEM makes
it the ONLY safe and smart source for tobacco
purchases online.
What's more, since
our club is incorporated in the Republic
of Panama - again for your protection - it
cannot be pressured by US agencies.
Are you
a member yet? What are you waiting for? The
arrival of a tax bill?
SSO
instantly activates your SSO Buyer Membership,
your in-house Private Payment Account, and
all the powerful tools in your online Private
Office the moment it receives your $9.95
activation fee. If you have pre-funded your
private account when you joined you can order
immediately. As a member, you will be in
complete command and you will have a lifetime
of savings, safety, and worry-free convenience.
Choose "Register" on
the site and a few minutes later you can
start saving, be safe, and stop worrying:
https://www.sovran-solutions-online.com/?ref=100048
Anti-
Smoking Hysteria: What's Really Going On.
. .
Check out these important items that provide
a good clear peek behind the Anti-Smoker Smokescreen
put up by the rich cabal that stands to profit
from prohibition. . .
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US pharmaceutical companies have long
known that the potential market for their
products is limited ...
Thirty years ago the
head of one of the world’s best-known
drug companies, Merck, made some over-candid
comments. He told Fortune magazine of his
distress that Merck’s potential markets
had been limited to sick people; he said
he would have preferred Merck to be able
to “sell
to everyone”; it had long been his
dream to make drugs for healthy people.
His dream has since come true.
This article has everything to do with
Anti-Smoking Hysteria and the worldwide
campaigns against smoking.
Read
the rest of this important article
from Le Monde Diplomatique on their site
here.
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Private pharmaceutical
firms fund the smoking ban
movement to promote their profits...
The following is from Clearing
The Air
Smoking bans: good public
policy?
Or simply a great pharmaceutical marketing
plan?
To the average non-smoker as I
am, it might appear that the American Lung
Association, American Cancer Society, American
Heart Association, American Non-Smoker's
Rights, the American Medical Association,
countless research Universities around
the country, etc. are lobbying our politicians
for smoking bans for health reasons.
However, upon some preliminary
investigation it is clear that these
NGO's are backed by $200,000,000.00
+ from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
(RWJF) which has direct ties to the
Johnson & Johnson Company, and
J & J is the manufacturer of Nicoderm & Nicoderm
CQ via its wholly owned subsidiary
ALZA. Recently, the buyout
of Pfizer means J & J profits
even more from the passage of smoking
bans thru additional sales of Nicotrol and
the new smoking cessation drug Chantix.
The data supplied to these NGO's
and subsequently our politicians should be
viewed as highly dubious at best, since it
comes from the largest manufacturer of pharmaceutical
nicotine products which benefits by selling
their alternative nicotine products like
Nicoderm, Nicoderm CQ, Nicotrol, etc. when
tobacco nicotine use is prohibited via smoking
bans.
In fact according to this industry
watchdog pharmaceutical nicotine product
sales is a $500,000,000.00+ annual business almost
exclusively owned by the Johnson & Johnson
conglomerate, of which RWJF is an entity
and single largest shareholder of J & J
stock, with a $5.4 billion dollar holding.
For whatever reason our local lawmakers
seem to ignore the conflict of interest,
if they know about it at all. I am curious
if some of these local lawmakers receive
campaign support from any or all of these
special interests........Are local media
outlets, or attorneys general interested
in investigating? We'll see.
Here are some links to financial
grants from the Nicoderm people at Robert
Wood Johnson Foundation to:
Recipient: American Medical Assoc.
$88,000,000.00 http://www.rwjf.org/reports/npreports/smokeless.htm
Recipient: American Lung Association,
American Cancer Society, American Heart
Association $99,000,000.00
http://www.rwjf.org/research/researchdetail.jsp?id=2002&ia=143
Read the rest here.
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Okay,
that's it for now, b ut
before I go, here they are again:
Ah,
yes: And please send your friends to this
page. Thanks.
Afterword:
I think you'll like my original online smokers'
store. It's got an excellent variety of carefully
selected stuff just for my smoking friends:
http://www.nativeblend.net/smokershealth/books.htm
Nativeblend is for smokers:
http://www.nativeblend.net
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