Now up on Real Tobacco site ... Yay! Thanks Peter.
Now up on F2C ... Thanks F2C
Justine xxx
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Great News! Real Tobacco chain are to inform their customers of their rights and how to protect themselves from unscrupulous tactics used by the UKBA to seize their goods. They'll be doing this through their newsletters, making this information available in their shops through leaflets and putting the information onto their website with links to ourselves. Peter at Real Tobacco has already given out all the info cards l left him and he had very positive feedback from his customers.
This means we will be getting the message to cross-border shoppers at source BEFORE they come into contact with the UKBA. Many shoppers are not on the internet and simply do not know their rights or means by which to protect themselves. Many shoppers that have never come into contact with the UKBA believe they have nothing to fear if they do come into contact with them ... because they are innocent. Unfortunately they find out too late that being innocent is useless against the tactics used by UKBA ... and still have their goods seized!
Real Tobacco chain will do all they can to ensure their customers no longer are unprepared for the UKBA. This information should then filter back to the UK coach companies who run the shopping trips. Hopefully they'll then update their own information and poilicies and we'll no longer see the guidelines of 800 cigarettes and 1kg of tobacco as LIMITS! Those shoppers that go cross-border shopping independently will hopefully do the same to their friends and associates.
FINALLY we have the info going TO the cross-border shoppers instead of waiting for them to come to us (and usually too late). This really is great news. Now Real Tobacco are doing this we hope others will follow including ... perhaps ... maybe Ferry companies and Airlines :) You never know, even 'pro-smoking' sites might do the same :)
And on that note we must congratulate Freedom2Choose on doing exactly that very shortly .... thanks guys!
You can help too when you go cross-border shopping. Print these info cards out and give them to your fellow smokers. Be part of this growing victory.
We said we'd get out there and spread the message ... and we have .... and will continue to do so.
Not bad for a 'single issue little blog' eh? :)
