Yet again we have huge increases in the price of tobacco and cigarettes. Our answer to that is "DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT!"
We've refused for years to purchase our smokes from this country and so should you. Don't pay the extortionate UK tax ... buy from the EU.
Not only will you be unbelievably financially better off but you'll also upset the anti-smoking fascists like ASH.
We've made buying your tobacco/cigs abroad far safer by RECORDING the interview if Customs should stop you. Record them openly and you won't believe how nice and friendly Customs behave. The underhand, aggressive and unethical tactics they normally use simply disappear. We've had feedback from many shoppers now and all the feedback is the same ... Customs behave themselves ... period!
Add to this your right NOT to sign their notebook and you've taken away the 2 main things that Customs use to seize goods!
Use our other advice as well and you'll find that legitimate cross-border shopping is no longer the risk it used to be.
So, no more moaning about UK prices ... do yourself a favour and shop abroad AND stop paying UK taxes that fund the likes of ASH.
What's not to like?
UPDATE
Well, we listened to all the radio debates and read most of the articles on the increased taxes on tobacco announced in the Budget till we almost lost the will to live. lt was all so predictable and monotonous from the pro-smoking 'champions'. First we had the shock/horror at the price rise as though no-one knew it was coming! Then we had the dire warnings of the black market/counterfeit gangs and cross-border shopping (you'd think they'd know better than to put the two together in the same sentence ffs). The government and the likes of ASH must've been quaking in their boots ... with laughter! They were being attacked by dead sheep.
What was needed was someone with 'balls and guts' to say "I ADVISE ALL SMOKERS TO BUY THEIR TOBACCO PRODUCTS FROM THE EU. DON'T GIVE THE UK GOV OR THE LIKES OF ASH ONE PENNY MORE IN UK TOBACCO TAX. WE'LL GIVE ADVICE ON HOW TO SHOP IN THE EU SAFELY.' ... etc etc. One could then explain the benefits of UK lowering it's tobacco tax rates to be more inline with Europe and so on. They should finish with telling smokers to shop in the EU again.
That'd get everyones attention, but of course it didn't come, did it? All we got was ... ghostly BAA! BAA!
Bah!
UPDATE 2
FFS that didn't take long. Gov now bringing in minimum pricing on alcohol l'll be bringing cigs and alcohol now! :)
We've refused for years to purchase our smokes from this country and so should you. Don't pay the extortionate UK tax ... buy from the EU.
Not only will you be unbelievably financially better off but you'll also upset the anti-smoking fascists like ASH.
We've made buying your tobacco/cigs abroad far safer by RECORDING the interview if Customs should stop you. Record them openly and you won't believe how nice and friendly Customs behave. The underhand, aggressive and unethical tactics they normally use simply disappear. We've had feedback from many shoppers now and all the feedback is the same ... Customs behave themselves ... period!
Add to this your right NOT to sign their notebook and you've taken away the 2 main things that Customs use to seize goods!
Use our other advice as well and you'll find that legitimate cross-border shopping is no longer the risk it used to be.
So, no more moaning about UK prices ... do yourself a favour and shop abroad AND stop paying UK taxes that fund the likes of ASH.
What's not to like?
UPDATE
Well, we listened to all the radio debates and read most of the articles on the increased taxes on tobacco announced in the Budget till we almost lost the will to live. lt was all so predictable and monotonous from the pro-smoking 'champions'. First we had the shock/horror at the price rise as though no-one knew it was coming! Then we had the dire warnings of the black market/counterfeit gangs and cross-border shopping (you'd think they'd know better than to put the two together in the same sentence ffs). The government and the likes of ASH must've been quaking in their boots ... with laughter! They were being attacked by dead sheep.
What was needed was someone with 'balls and guts' to say "I ADVISE ALL SMOKERS TO BUY THEIR TOBACCO PRODUCTS FROM THE EU. DON'T GIVE THE UK GOV OR THE LIKES OF ASH ONE PENNY MORE IN UK TOBACCO TAX. WE'LL GIVE ADVICE ON HOW TO SHOP IN THE EU SAFELY.' ... etc etc. One could then explain the benefits of UK lowering it's tobacco tax rates to be more inline with Europe and so on. They should finish with telling smokers to shop in the EU again.
That'd get everyones attention, but of course it didn't come, did it? All we got was ... ghostly BAA! BAA!
Bah!
UPDATE 2
FFS that didn't take long. Gov now bringing in minimum pricing on alcohol l'll be bringing cigs and alcohol now! :)
