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by BWilliams
on Tue Jan 06, 2004 6:46 pm |
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| Sorry for my long absence over the holidays, guys. Sometimes work and life just seems to get in the way! |
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by Tom
on Tue Jan 06, 2004 9:55 pm |
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| Welcome back Bill. Thanks for deleting those posts. |
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by Rick
on Wed Jan 07, 2004 11:41 am |
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| Hi Bill, Welcome Back!!! I tried deleting those posts, but had no idea on how to do that or which menu to go under. I hope that you will check out my post about the online buying of cigs on the home page - it is an outrageous thing that they are trying to do, and I sincerely hope that everyone willl take action on this issue!!!!! |
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by BWilliams
on Wed Jan 07, 2004 2:47 pm |
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| Hey guys - I try to keep on top of these forum spammers that just want to stick their links in here. We have a WebLinks section for legitimate online smoke shops. |
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by Jay
on Fri Jan 09, 2004 1:14 am |
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| Welcome back Bill. I didn't even know you were back until I saw your post on the index list. I guess those onlinesmoker spam posts pushed you off of the "Most Recent Activity" list of posts. hahahaha |
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by BWilliams
on Fri Jan 09, 2004 2:35 am |
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I just don't get why they spam the forum with 3 messages for their bogus URL. If they just spammed us once I might miss it and think it's legit, but they put 3 topics in here about some cheap online cig shop that looks so shady I can't help but notice it. And, of course, I then delete it.
I think most online shoppers are smart enough to know not to buy from these kinds of sellers, though. |
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by Tom
on Fri Jan 09, 2004 9:56 am |
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| At first I thought online smoker was run by South American organized crime. Now I think some sites like this may have been set up by the CIA in order to give the government amunition to link online cigarette sales to international terrorism. |
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by Rick
on Sun Jan 11, 2004 11:54 pm |
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| I know, I too can't help but think some of these sites are run by the U.S. fed. govt. in an attempt to bolster support for further persecution of resourceful smokers trying to tell the govt. they've had enough of the nanny state. I am a firm believer in a person's rights (whether it be abortion, pro-choice, smoking, drinking, or what have you). If a person wants to save themselves by finding loopholes in the tax laws they will be resourceful to hire a CPA, tax-attorney, or a Certified financial planner. Likewise, if a smoker doesn't want to pay ridiculous cig taxes, they will either turn to the net, or as I feel should any of this pending legislation pass - organized crime that sells cigs out of a trunk of a car. |
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by Tom
on Mon Jan 12, 2004 2:15 pm |
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| Isn't that ironic that the government says they are trying to stop organized crime from stealing cigarettes and selling them by targeting their competition, the online cigarette shops. Maybe they want the criminals to get more powerful and get more business, so they're a bigger target, or maybe they want more criminals, so they can bring more people on charges. They're both very sick ways of thinking. They're still able to convince a large number of ignorant people that this fights terrorism. |
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