http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills info@washingtonwatch.com http://www.pjdoland.com/chai/?v=0.1 http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/111_HR_1676.html#151154 This bill will produce the exact opposite of what it's trying to accomplish. Guaranteed. Kids wll smoke whatever they can get their hands on, flavored or not. This only abuses law-abiding adults who choose to smoke something with flavor. As for Uncle Sam getting even more of my money, I'd gladly pay taxes on my online smokes, no problem. But don't tell a law abiding adult that you he or she can't purchase what they want anymore because you said so. The whole nationwide babysitting has gone entirely too far.... 151154@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Sat, 28 Nov 2009 17:28:21 EST http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/111_HR_1676.html#150643 How to stop the PACT Act of 2009 It's not too late to give them hell.. Online petition is at http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/us-citzens-against-the-pact-act-of-2009-s1147... 150643@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Fri, 27 Nov 2009 16:21:14 EST http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/111_HR_1676.html#146957 WTF! I SHOULD BE ABLE TO BUY AS MUCH CHEW I WANT TO ONLINE! THIS IS AMERICA WTF IS HAPPENING... 146957@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:24:59 EST http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/111_HR_1676.html#145566 If this bill will pass, there will be just one more field for corruption. No other effect. OK, more dues from taxpayers. And higher prices for cigs. What else? Let me think... Can't think of anything positive.... 145566@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Sun, 22 Nov 2009 15:58:08 EST http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/111_HR_1676.html#139026 We do not need any more legislation that would corner the market for Phillip Morris!... 139026@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:20:12 EST http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/111_HR_1676.html#137378 I am a smoker of over 20 yrs. I will prob die from lung cancer without the E-Cig.Here are some things you should consider.E-Cigs contain no tar.E-Cigs produce no carbon monoxide (they vaporize the E-liquid producing steam). E-Cigs have only 4 chemicals.Traditional cigs contain tar.Traditional cigs produce carbon monoxide. Traditional cigs contain over 100 chemicals. Carbon monoxide is known to be harmful and cause cancer.Tar clogs the air sacks of the lungs.Lung Cancer is the #1 leading cause of premature death in the USA.If passed it will make it illegal for tobacco and tobacco products to be sent though the mail. The nicotine found in the e-liquid we use in our electronic cigarettes comes from tobacco. I'm telling you if this is passed people are going to die! Genocide is the planned killing of a group of people. I can assure you this WILL kill people. If congress passes this they might as well be watching us in a giant gas chamber not really killing us just blocking the only exit!... 137378@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Sat, 14 Nov 2009 13:15:16 EST http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/111_HR_1676.html#137376 No wonder gun sales are up!... 137376@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Sat, 14 Nov 2009 13:13:53 EST http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/111_HR_1676.html#136675 Can You Say Boston Tea "Tobacco" Party and King George "Congress"....or am I the only on that see the similarities that are going on right now to the reason for the Boston Tea Party over the excess tea taxes????????? It is time for us to organize and have another "Boston Tobacco Party" on the steps of congress.....they forget that this country would not exist if it wasn't for tobacco...it is the only thing that provide for the founding and making of the U.S. and provided the income to do such. They are trying to create a Probition without the Constitutional Amendment by sercomventing it with all these little laws to force Tobacco out of existence........... 136675@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Fri, 13 Nov 2009 20:01:25 EST http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/111_HR_1676.html#128371 I don't smoke and I think this is law is ridiculous. I thought we lived in a free country. It's starting to feel like a prision.... 128371@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:11:47 EST http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/111_HR_1676.html#127432 How much harder do you all feel you need to make like for others. People need to make $70,000 a year to be able to smoke? You are lucky that some of us still smoke with all these taxes you give us. Making life more difficult. Now in the state of NJ you have taxed us to friggen death. You people governing us are the biggest theives and Congress is no better with the "Lifetime Medical Plans" that you make for yourself at our cost and this is what you want to do to us? How about everyone quit smoking and drinking so there will be no one at all paying taxes and lining your prockets? All of you should go to jail for even considering this.... 127432@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Thu, 05 Nov 2009 07:31:29 EST http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/111_HR_1676.html#127279 First off, those of you who are blaming Obama for this legislation: PACT Act has been circulating through Congress for the last... 6 years? Obama's been in office for less than 1 year. It's not Obama who brought this down on us, so don't blame him. Second, I agree that this legislation is utterly pointless, because (at best) it would be effectively ignored, and e-commerce and reservation commerce will continue much the same as usual. (And those of us who live in border states can cross the border, either way.) Worst case scenario, grow your own or quit. I don't like it either, but if it comes to that, not much we can do. But please, get ahold of your senators and fight this. I would, but I'm in Arizona, so that won't work, McCain and Kyl would rather have the tax money to roll around in.... 127279@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:32:11 EST http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/111_HR_1676.html#91820 I used snus to quit smoking and now they want to ban it? This is nothing more than a way to keep people smoking so that they can collect the taxes from it. Please don't ban snus. Snus is a much safer product than cigarettes and has a great success rate in getting people to quit smoking. I smoked a pack day for well over 20 years. I have tried patches, nicotine gum, lozenges, cold turkey and hypnotherapy without success. Snus works and I am now smoke free. Please don't take this product and the ability to order it away.... 91820@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Fri, 16 Oct 2009 00:43:27 EDT http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/111_HR_1676.html#75340 Smokers wise up and read the writing on the wall. The goverment dose not want you to quit smoking after all they like spending your taxed money from them. they just want you to smoke in your house, inyour bedroom with the door locked and a sign on it saying WARNING SMOKER IN ROOM. Now every smoker today has a choice called E-Cigarettes the give you your nicotine without the smoke I use them and prefer them to regular cigarettes. Get educated to laern more about E-Cigarettes go to www.luck-e-strile.com then blogs and articles their you can read the facts from real reaserch pysicians and doctors... 75340@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Mon, 05 Oct 2009 11:57:45 EDT http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/111_HR_1676.html#75339 Smokers wise up and read the writing on the wall. The goverment dose not want you to quit smoking after all they like spending your taxed money from them. they just want you to smoke in your house, inyour bedroom with the door locked and a sign on it saying WARNING SMOKER IN ROOM. Now every smoker today has a choice called E-Cigarettes the give you your nicotine without the smoke I use them and prefer them to regular cigarettes. Get educated to laern more about E-Cigarettes go to www.luck-e-strile.com then blogs and articles their you can read the facts from real reaserch pysicians and doctors... 75339@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Mon, 05 Oct 2009 11:56:04 EDT http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/111_HR_1676.html#74178 A big no to this law. I use reduced harm products to stay off cigarettes, as in Swedish snus and nasal snuff. The only way to get these products is through the mail. If this bill passes I'll be back on cigarettes in a heart beat, thanks to this misguided law. This is a bad law that will put unnecessary hardship on many thousands of US citizens.... 74178@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Fri, 02 Oct 2009 16:28:07 EDT http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/111_HR_1676.html#71817 Prohibition returns... 71817@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Wed, 30 Sep 2009 15:18:48 EDT http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/111_HR_1676.html#69292 I really cant add much to the wisdom that has been written in the previous comments. But what really gets me is that most of the most vicious anti-smoking activists (at least where I live) are obese middle aged women. I say tax the Hell out of ice cream and Ho-Hos and they will be the first to cry foul. But seriously. Smoking is my one and only vice. As a member of the working poor (when I can find steady work) this is pure elitist bull against working folks Liberals claim to love. First they made it illegal to smoke in bars. In BARS!! Then the insane tax increases that almost seemed to come every six months for the last five years or so. Then they tried to take smokes away from our men in uniform. Now this? Just make it illegal and be done with it! Then I can buy my smokes from Tony Soprano for three bucks a pack.... 69292@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Thu, 24 Sep 2009 16:55:42 EDT http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/111_HR_1676.html#68235 It's like the end of days. We've had Boston Tea Party in 1773. Political protest- about taxes. 236 years later, Obama's administration wants to levy more taxes on cigarettes, booze, sugared drinks (which recently passed and will be in effect within a few months), and now H.R. 1676 to stop the smuggling of cigarettes? We paid too much taxes on them.. In this state, the cost of a pack of cigarettes before taxes would be about 48% of the total cost- so that leaves us with 52% for taxes, alone. Do the math. The point is, with economy worsening, the taxation is enough to dispel at least 25% of the deficit- so I say NO to the H.R. Bill 1767. Now, think about the deficits, and heavy taxation. Where does all that money we pay go? You tell us. You're abusing America. You're demoralizing America. You're no better than a Socialist, a Marxist, a communist, and even worse, an American Politican. Whatever happened to the "We, the People, of the United States....." We got rights, mind you!... 68235@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Tue, 22 Sep 2009 02:46:13 EDT http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/111_HR_1676.html#67931 This is ridiculous! First, you're banning the sale of clove cigarettes in America, now you're going to make it so that I can't order them online? I'm am 26 years old! I am an adult, I can make my own decisions. I only smoke a pack a week, when I work. I work in a bar, I'm a recovering alcoholic and smoking helps me to keep from drinking. I don't want to smoke regular cigarettes, just let me have my simple pleasure. I'm a very liberal democrat, but this is RIDICULOUS!... 67931@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Mon, 21 Sep 2009 02:12:45 EDT http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/111_HR_1676.html#64675 I am sick of all the crap that Obama has put us through, in this short time he has been in office! Too many people have lost their jobs. Now, he is trying to put the indians out of work, for their online cigarettes. Just because smokers can get a break on one thing, he wants to take that away! We are going to h-ll in a handbasket! Our country is getting cancer, and it's not from cigarettes! Stop with taking everything away from us!!! If something is going to be taxed, as if we haven't had enough, it should be something that taxes everyone, not just one group of people, smokers! Why force people to purchase cigarettes where they live, and pay twice the price, already??? What happened, did Obama have to quit smoking, because of the white house rules? What does he care, anyway. He and all his cronies will be able to afford those high prices, and will be taken care of, for the rest of their miserable lives!!! VOTE NO!!!... 64675@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Wed, 19 Aug 2009 14:56:47 EDT http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/111_HR_1676.html#63723 Well, Lets see what you can buy online? You can buy liquor and have this shipped right to your door. You can buy marijuana and have it shipped to your door. You can buy marijuana seeds and have them shipped to your door. Low and behold.. YOU CAN HAVE CIGARETTES DELIVERED TO YOUR DOOR ANYMORE ! HERE IS WHAT EVERYONE NEEDS TO DO IF THEY PASS THIS LAW !! GET GOOD Tobacco seeds and buy them. Plant them! Dry them and smoke. TAX FREE for personal use. So if enough people do this what will they do next. You can buy a cigarette rolling machine (good one) for about 75-100.00 Look at this.. They are trying to pass a law that say yes to legalize marijuana but ---- No you can buy tobacco online.. http://www.esquire.com/the-side/richardson-report/new-marijuana-laws-071309 Everyone needs to stand up and say hell no to PACT ACT H.R 1676 and tell your reps now !! Hope this helps My Taste is numb... 63723@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Mon, 03 Aug 2009 04:41:22 EDT http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/111_HR_1676.html#63431 Lord Obama promised "change". I hope all you sheep who voted for hithis hypocryte (he smokes) are happy! There is a new revolution brewing in this country.... 63431@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Tue, 28 Jul 2009 21:28:07 EDT http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/111_HR_1676.html#62352 After the patriot act was signed into law we lost all our freedoms as if we're the terrorist.... 62352@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Thu, 09 Jul 2009 22:57:43 EDT http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/111_HR_1676.html#62328 This is wonderfull Bill. There has been a huge black market that has been created and something needs to be done to keep it in check. I mean why even make laws if there is zero enforcment.... 62328@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Thu, 09 Jul 2009 17:08:22 EDT http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/111_HR_1676.html#62086 Hard to believe that this is the "Land of the Free" isn't it?... 62086@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Mon, 06 Jul 2009 05:15:36 EDT