I got this email today from an online tobacco boutique in regards to something that would outcome ALL online tobacco shops.
Beloved Valued Patron, this is an critical note.
On Wednesday, January 21, 2004, the Residence Judiciary Board is scheduled to mark-up HR 2824, the Internet Tobacco Sales Enforcement Undertaking.
This nib would ask (for) interstate tobacco retailers to agree with multiple and discriminatory condition(s) excise, sales and employ taxes prep cigarettes and smokeless tobacco products sold unswervingly to full-grown consumers above the Internet or on account of the correspondence. No other legal product sold on the Internet would be (subject-)matter to the selfsame regulations.
HR 2824 longing cut (back) patron selection, and grow the price of cigarettes and smokeless tobacco, to the profit of big tobacco companies and strong convenience collect lobbying interests. The bill would allow states to blacklist companies prep selling tobacco products in interstate trade.
In joining, the neb desire foist coarse illegal and lay penalties on online retailers, as spring as carriers (such as UPS, Federal Articulate and Airborne Articulate).
If passed, HR 2824 longing push liable Internet tobacco retailers outdoors of occupation, giving great tobacco companies a monopoly and leaving the door gaping to organized offence, contraband smugglers and other persona non grata groups.
Delight cry (out), get off, fax or e-mail your Congressional symbolic, and push him/her to object (to) the oppressive regulations in HR 2824!
Close by OLTRA
In 2001, a responsible assemblage of Internet tobacco retailers founded OLTRA to carry a measure of aid on account of self-regulation to the Internet tobacco trade, and discourse concerns around the selling of tobacco products to minors. Over the past three years, OLTRA has worked to tool a figure of policies designed to anticipate the vending of tobacco products to minors on account of online retailers. OLTRA is committed to these measures, and to lawful length of existence verification. OLTRA members back (up) the Trade Clause, and manage shipping to adults. Consumers should have the preference of selecting the See mean near which they procure tobacco products, whether from Internet retailers or chunk and mortar stores.
Our customers possess a manage attentiveness in serving to safeguard our production and we should possess your stand by. It is time to tumulus your Federal and condition(s) legislators to discontinue dictating how and where you can purchase tobacco products. Barrow them you crave to build your own selection. 2004 is an election year and this is the interval to assemble your ballot off. Take a few minutes to secure affected, and barrow the politicians and the anti-smoking groups they keep gone too adafar
We demand your aid. Stand by OLTRA, together, we can build a discrepancy.
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