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A single “Anti-smoking Nazi” forces a change to the script.

Italy: a stunned Italian actor had to stub out the cigarette he had lit up on stage after a spectator complained, forcing the theater to change the script of an Arthur Miller play to make it smoke-free.

The lady-fustigator was sitting in the second row of the parterre at the Teatro Toniolo of Mestre ( Venice ), when at a certain point, she addressed the actor on the stage who — following the script — was holding a cigarette between his lips.

“Put out that cigarettes”, shouted the woman, totally insensitive to the requirements of the performance. Read more »

It is the only carrier left that continues to deliver cigarettes to individuals in the US.

A few months from the neutralisation of the credit card companies, now it's the turn of the shipping carriers: after DHL, also UPS Inc., the world's largest, will stop delivering cigarettes to individuals in the United States under an agreement announced Monday, October 24th with state Attorney General Eliot Spitzer.

“It is an embarrassment that major private companies have stopped carrying contraband cigarettes, but the Federal Government continues to accept them”, said Spitzer, a Democrat running for governor. “Congress needs to step in and stop this practice immediately”.

Spitzer's battle against “cigarette traffickers” appears to be a defence of the privileges of the major cigarette makers, their middleman courtesans, and their distribution system.

How much would the cigarettes purchased from the Yesmoke online shop have to cost if the US Customs applied the duty-tax when the goods are delivered, like their Canadian colleagues do? Herès how Big Tobacco fights the “forbidden” pricelist! Read more »