No more "Roll Your Own" cigarettes in Corporatist America

[rambone]

A law has been passed by our corporatist congress and president that will shut down "Roll Your Own" cigarette stores. Now smokers will have no choice but to smoke the chemical-laden mass-produced cigarettes. Its nice how frivolously our freedoms can be stripped so that big industries can have a tighter monopoly on a product.


Roll-your-own cigarette operations to be snuffed out

"These cigarettes are different because there are benefits in saving money and in how they make you feel," said Amy Hinds, a partner who operates the Sin City Cigarette Factory at Craig and Decatur.

"These cigarettes don't have any of the chemicals in them, and the papers are chemical-free, unlike the cartons people buy from Philip Morris."

But a few paragraphs added to the transportation bill changed the definition of a cigarette manufacturer to cover thousands of roll-your-own operations nationwide. The move, backed by major tobacco companies, is aimed at boosting tax revenues.

Roll Your Own Cigarette Stores Doomed?

In the usual not-too transparent manner of Congress making new laws, an amendment added to the Surface Transportation Bill (HR 4348), a subsection of the IRS Code, was amended to classify 'roll your own' cigarette stores as manufacturers, making it more difficult for stores to sell discount cigarettes to customers because of the Federal rules which now must be followed by manufacturers of tobacco products.

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[Lex Concord]

Wait, is this different than the government normally behaves?