mrnosejoy
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- May 29, 2008
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Two big fights on the horizon:
Legislation is about to be railroaded thru to tax internet sales across the board. With more and more states considering the complete ban of online tobacco shipment sales.
Secondly Daniel E. Smith, President of the Cancer Action Network a arm of the American Cancer Society announced this week they're going to spend 3 million dollars in May, June & July to lobby Congress for another round of SCHIP tax increases on tobacco. So it may take till next year to increase taxes again, but enough is enough and we need help. Our lives can't revolve around only us fighting, we need more supporters.
My company started to keep everyone informed about whats going on in B&M's and realized they won't be here much longer if we don't get in the fight.
So we started organizing the National Cigar & Pipe Appreciation Day on 6/6/09! It's all about fellowship and fun, but it sure can't hurt to do several things on this day.
One take as many pictures as possible at store events, showing the fellowship. Make signs hold them up. We want to post these on Flickr to help rally more support for our fight. One picture gets hundreds of views imagine 10,000 pictures.
Second take your video cameras, and take quick snippets of people at the events speaking out. Make a video post it to You Tube, MySpace, Google, Flickr anywhere you can post video. Get more people excited to react.
We truly appreciate your help. You can also send us what you get at
ktrs@bmtobacco.com
We're going to try and blanket the internet to rally more supportive action!
Legislation is about to be railroaded thru to tax internet sales across the board. With more and more states considering the complete ban of online tobacco shipment sales.
Secondly Daniel E. Smith, President of the Cancer Action Network a arm of the American Cancer Society announced this week they're going to spend 3 million dollars in May, June & July to lobby Congress for another round of SCHIP tax increases on tobacco. So it may take till next year to increase taxes again, but enough is enough and we need help. Our lives can't revolve around only us fighting, we need more supporters.
My company started to keep everyone informed about whats going on in B&M's and realized they won't be here much longer if we don't get in the fight.
So we started organizing the National Cigar & Pipe Appreciation Day on 6/6/09! It's all about fellowship and fun, but it sure can't hurt to do several things on this day.
One take as many pictures as possible at store events, showing the fellowship. Make signs hold them up. We want to post these on Flickr to help rally more support for our fight. One picture gets hundreds of views imagine 10,000 pictures.
Second take your video cameras, and take quick snippets of people at the events speaking out. Make a video post it to You Tube, MySpace, Google, Flickr anywhere you can post video. Get more people excited to react.
We truly appreciate your help. You can also send us what you get at
ktrs@bmtobacco.com
We're going to try and blanket the internet to rally more supportive action!
