Thread: One Up For Us Smokers - How to Beat The Ban!

1-0 against those do-gooders with nothing better to do in their lifes but to persecute us!... These cigarettes have the UK government all confused as they defy the 'no smoking in public places' ban. Ha ha...

I've never heard of an electric cigarette before... geez, and here i am smoking the normal ones.

Originally Posted by funkykush

I've never heard of an electric cigarette before... geez, and here i am smoking the normal ones.

I never tried them, but I had to build a site for the manufacturers of these things a while back. They look good... maybe one day i try.

There it goes a another way to smoke. Sounds cool Ramsey try one lets us know how it is smoke here are way to expensive now.

jkadin, how much are smokes down there? We pay over ten dollars a pack ;c(

Originally Posted by jkadin

There it goes a another way to smoke. Sounds cool Ramsey try one lets us know how it is smoke here are way to expensive now.

They cost £5 + a packet here in the UK. When I went to Gibraltar they were no more than 90p a packet! So I am gonna get David to take me there in his boat and smuggle thousands of packets back in the country! Well.. what do the government expect.. talk about encouraging to smuggle!!

Ah! theres a different approach.
Gave up nearly 2 years ago & been very surprised that it hasn't really bothered me, & i was a pack a day plus smoker. But my bank balance is bigger along with the belly. So i am not sure which is worse, getting out of breath with cigs or the extra wide load. LOL

Gave it up long long ago in a town far far away.................
Ramsey if you try them, let us know if the smell from the smoke is still there.

Originally Posted by funkykush

jkadin, how much are smokes down there? We pay over ten dollars a pack ;c(

righnow I get a buy one get one free at 9.76. I keep telling my wife it's cheaper if we visit our son which is a 5 hour drive, but a half hour a way from him theres a indian reservation there thats sells seneca cigarettes thats just like marlboros for your not going to believe this 12.50 a carton, marlboros are 29.89 a carton. I tell its worth it when she is home because she works out of town for eight months out of the year, but she comes home on down time every three weeks for 4 days its worth the trip to see our son and get a months supply of cigarettes.

Ive heard of them.. dont know much about them other than the site i built for a client.

Karen

Originally Posted by jkadin

righnow I get a buy one get one free at 9.76. I keep telling my wife it's cheaper if we visit our son which is a 5 hour drive, but a half hour a way from him theres a indian reservation there thats sells seneca cigarettes thats just like marlboros for your not going to believe this 12.50 a carton, marlboros are 29.89 a carton. I tell its worth it when she is home because she works out of town for eight months out of the year, but she comes home on down time every three weeks for 4 days its worth the trip to see our son and get a months supply of cigarettes.

So are you buying your smokes from a reserve in the sates or canada? Cause if i buy from a reserve it cost 40 a carton

I think he said SENECA, not name brand. But I believe hes in the US NEW YORKER. LOL

Karen

We had something like that in the US not so long ago, but apparently it didn't take off and it disappeared from the stores: a "smokeless" cigarette that had some kind of hard endpiece that forced it to 'smolder' rather than 'burn' a specially blended tobacco (without all the additives like fragrance and stuff?).

Anyway, smoking anything is becoming such a "luxury" nowadays that it seems the Liberals and whackos are nudging us closer to the Utopian social model (like in those futuristic movies) unimpeded. I hope they get attacked by mobs of rodents they spend time and money to protect when they have mopre important things to consider like being diligent in recycling all their flyers and all their Designer Water bottles......

Originally Posted by Karen Mac

I think he said SENECA, not name brand. But I believe hes in the US NEW YORKER. LOL

Karen

I know he said seneca and that he is in the US. I was just wondering where he bought his smokes because he is so close to the us/canada border.

Originally Posted by funkykush

So are you buying your smokes from a reserve in the sates or canada? Cause if i buy from a reserve it cost 40 a carton

The brand name is seneca 's My son live"s upstate New york and there's a reservation near the town of cuba. The trip is not realy that bad just long One highway almost 300 miles long and when we get of the highway it's about 25 miles. From my house it's actualy 3 turns we make.
The only time we get cigarettes up there is when we visit. Which is about every 4 months. We was up there last month had bout 6 cartons.

Originally Posted by Marincky

They cost £5 + a packet here in the UK. When I went to Gibraltar they were no more than 90p a packet! So I am gonna get David to take me there in his boat and smuggle thousands of packets back in the country! Well.. what do the government expect.. talk about encouraging to smuggle!!

Yeah, Ramsey, 5 pounds there compared to about $5 here.We have reservations nearby but to drive there just to get cigs ends up burning the savings in petrol. However when we visited Europe I bought 4 cartons of Marlboros @ $30 (about $3 each) to see me through. Every one I managed to smoke somehow tasted sweeter.

Sometimes when you are flying and on the other sides of the customs checks, you can buy DUTY free, which is what sounds like you got there Ken... I used to love that... I used to snatch up that EIS WEIN. A good bottle even on the base is 60 bucks, but i could get it on those DUTY FREE shops for about 45. I think in retail i see it go for 75 to 100 bucks a pop for a good year.

I just drove thru Arizona and seen the turn off to Sedona.. and I went to the Grand Canyon southern rim there. Reservations were an extreme chore to actually get to the habitated part.

Karen

Yeah, I must admit to probably bringing through a few more over my allowed quota, about four months worth more.. but as I said, if our government are gonna rip us off....

Had I known that getting off a cruise ship at 5am means that there are no customs at the gate, I would have bought another 6 months worth!

P.S. I Smoked the evidence!

Originally Posted by Karen Mac

Sometimes when you are flying and on the other sides of the customs checks, you can buy DUTY free, which is what sounds like you got there Ken... I used to love that... I used to snatch up that EIS WEIN. A good bottle even on the base is 60 bucks, but i could get it on those DUTY FREE shops for about 45. I think in retail i see it go for 75 to 100 bucks a pop for a good year.

I just drove thru Arizona and seen the turn off to Sedona.. and I went to the Grand Canyon southern rim there. Reservations were an extreme chore to actually get to the habitated part.

Karen

You were 30 minutes from me and didn't visit? Bad Karen! I owe you about 10 Sedona Smacks! (You can ask Sharon, all Sedona Smacks are in the same area and it takes about 10 to do the job properly :)

I would have been happy to take you to the Grand Canyon and you would have actually learned something lol... very disappointed in you

No, I didn't buy duty free, I bought on the res. I know what you mean, the Navajo reservation (where you were) is the largest in the US and you have to know how to get off the beaten path to see how they actually live. Next time you come (if you tell me) I'll take you to the Hopi villages where they still live in homes their ancestors built a 1000 years ago.

Originally Posted by Marincky

Yeah, I must admit to probably bringing through a few more over my allowed quota, about four months worth more.. but as I said, if our government are gonna rip us off....

Had I known that getting off a cruise ship at 5am means that there are no customs at the gate, I would have bought another 6 months worth!

P.S. I Smoked the evidence!

Sounds like it's time to take another cruise, mate, you'll pay for it in your savings!

Originally Posted by sedona

You were 30 minutes from me and didn't visit? Bad Karen! I owe you about 10 Sedona Smacks! (You can ask Sharon, all Sedona Smacks are in the same area and it takes about 10 to do the job properly :)

I would have been happy to take you to the Grand Canyon and you would have actually learned something lol... very disappointed in you

No, I didn't buy duty free, I bought on the res. I know what you mean, the Navajo reservation (where you were) is the largest in the US and you have to know how to get off the beaten path to see how they actually live. Next time you come (if you tell me) I'll take you to the Hopi villages where they still live in homes their ancestors built a 1000 years ago.

Well it was a FAST trip.. really fast and just decided to take that one day sojourn. My mother died so we had to run to bakersfield and only had six days to get it done in.. there and back. I wanted to meet some other folks too.. but hubby had to be back. Had i gone by myself.. you can count that i would have stopped..lol I lived like five days in a car..lol

We were gonna fly.. but to get where we needed to be i would have had two days of driving anyway cuz we just couldnt get the flights to connect without paying an arm and three legs.

Karen

Oh, Karen, I'm sorry to hear about your mother. Anyways, I was mostly teasing.

Maybe you could plan to come along with LadyEye, CL and the group planning a trip in April, I think, of 2010?

LMAO...Sure those ladies could handle it......Are you renting a mom and pop hotel for us to invade? Im not sure we wouldnt get kicked out otherwise..LOL.. 2010.. thats too far ahead to plan.

I know you were teasing.. but.. I woulda looked you up if it hadnt been so rushed...

Karen

Originally Posted by Karen Mac

LMAO...Sure those ladies could handle it......Are you renting a mom and pop hotel for us to invade? Im not sure we wouldnt get kicked out otherwise..LOL.. 2010.. thats too far ahead to plan.

I know you were teasing.. but.. I woulda looked you up if it hadnt been so rushed...

Karen

We've offered up the use of a timeshare condo we have here on Oak Creek that sleeps 6-8 (depending on who's sleeping where lol)

wow, when they bring them to mexico i want a pack lol....

Please be forwarned.....

Buying cigarettes can be very expensive.... let me explain.

My parents used to buy hundreds of dollars worth of cigarettes a month off the internet NOT for profit but would sell them to family and friends for the same price they paid.

Come tax time they got a little letter in the mail from the Federal Government which "kindly" stated they had to pay $5,000 dollars for taxes on cigarettes they bought off the internet. Mind you they bought all cigarettes online from a U.S. supplier. Paid taxes on them from the state they bought them from (I think it was Kentucky) and was forced to pay Michigan sales tax as well.

So....are your cigarettes really tax free? how about cheaper?

Be cautious!

DM Owner
www.digitalizedmemories.com

Originally Posted by DM Owner

Please be forwarned.....

Buying cigarettes can be very expensive.... let me explain.

My parents used to buy hundreds of dollars worth of cigarettes a month off the internet NOT for profit but would sell them to family and friends for the same price they paid.

Come tax time they got a little letter in the mail from the Federal Government which "kindly" stated they had to pay $5,000 dollars for taxes on cigarettes they bought off the internet. Mind you they bought all cigarettes online from a U.S. supplier. Paid taxes on them from the state they bought them from (I think it was Kentucky) and was forced to pay Michigan sales tax as well.

So....are your cigarettes really tax free? how about cheaper?

Be cautious!

DM Owner
www.digitalizedmemories.com

If it was from a US supplier then taxes should have already been paid. Wtf. US tax systems are so complicated. Glad I'm not there.

I'm not much of a smoker, but, I enjoy, along with my sons, a really good Cuban cigar once in a while.

Originally Posted by VivCo

I'm not much of a smoker, but, I enjoy, along with my sons, a really good Cuban cigar once in a while.

Me too! I get them every time I get to the Caribbean (often), but Soudah is a Smoker!

When i was smoking, there was a guy on ebay selling cigs under the collectors area as Marlboro cigarette boxes with unusual Arabic writing. Then in small print, many of these boxes still have contents in them. I thought it was a scam at 1st, but i gave it a try for 1 carton, & no problem at all. All the cigs came within a few days from Dubai & did so for all my orders for around 1 year. Then i think he got found out, as the ebay shop was closed.

When I went to Taiwan, I could get Marlboro for $12 In Korea around $13.

Here in Ontario you can buy native cigarettes from 10 to 30 dollars a carton without even driving to the reserve. Our government has created a situation comparable to the old prohibition era.