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Will Christmas, perhaps, be the occasion for Big Tobacco and its followers to repent for their sins…
Yesmoke "Gold 0.3" – Less nicotine, Tar and ammonia
The production of Yesmoke's new cigarette has begun. The “Gold 0.3s” will be in the tobacco shops in a week, brand new and fresh.
Like the “Red 0.8s” and the “Silver 0.6s”, the “Gold 0.3s”, totally without chemical cocktails, have the lowest ammonia content of all the “American blend” cigarettes on the Italian market. Read more »
What is there in American Cigarettes?
Aside from the lawsuits of relatives of smokers who died prematurely, Big Tobacco is not having a bad time in the States, where it is freer than in Europe.
Chemical formula of the "Crack nicotina"
Based on its top-secret criteria, Philip Morris decides on the doses of chemical additives most suitable for each country, to be used in its cigarettes. But which are the worst cigarettes, those sold in the third world or those smoked in the streets of New York?
Tobacco imported into the USA is not subjected any inspections. Nitrosamine, ammonia, pesticides, nicotine… . The cigarettes smoked in America repeatedly record the highest values. Read more »
The A.A.M.S. Censors Yesmoke
According to the A.A.M.S, the information insert of the new Yesmokes contains things that cannot be said.
“Make your contribution to take market quotas away from the tobacco multinationals”. According to the Autonomous Agency of the State Monopoly (Azienda Autonoma Monopoli di Stato), this statement cannot be used.
“Inserts must contain exclusively instructive information on the product, and must contain no references, direct or indirect, to promotional aspects”, continued the A.A.M.S.
So, while for years the multinationals have been disseminating all sorts of promotions in Italy, Yesmoke’s information slip is judged not compliant with current regulations.
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British American Tobacco vs. Yesmoke – the "Correction"
BAT Italia wants Yesmoke to declare in Yesmoke’s Blog that BAT has nothing to do with the evasion of Value Added Tax reported by Yesmoke. The correction, written by BAT, should be published with the Yesmoke signature.
But BAT cannot consider itself extraneous, because the law is quite clear: if invoices have to be issued with VAT, then whoever issues an invoice without VAT and whoever receives it are evading taxes.
The Blog is open to BAT; they are free to make their contribution to clarify an untenable position that is destabilizing the entire sector.
Is BAT holder of a VAT deposit? Has it paid the bond to exercise the VAT deposit or has it been exonerated? On its sales of processed tobacco produced in Italy, does it invoice to the distributor Logista with VAT? Read more »
First Sponsors, then Children! – The MOIGE and the Phony Campaigns
For the Italian Parents’ Movement - Movimento Italiano Genitori (MOIGE), children’s health is an entirely relative problem.
This association, which arrogates the right to represent Italian parents and enters homes and schools, conducts questionable campaigns on the prevention of smoking among minors, thanks to the money of Philip Morris and of the Italian Tobacconists Federation —Federazione Italiana Tabaccai— FIT.
An association like the MOIGE, “for parents dedicated to the safeguarding and the growth of their most precious fruits”, is ideal for Big Tobacco.
Such campaigns of sponsored pseudo-prevention have been condemned by the international scientific community, not so much because they are accompanied by the brand names and in any case do advertising, but because, besides being banal, rhetorical and ineffective, they subtly promote a “friendly marketing”, that is, an attractive image of the tobacco manufacturer sponsors. Read more »
Value Added Tax Chaos – The Agenzia delle Entrate must intervene
The privileges that the Italian Monopoly enjoyed could be passed on to British American Tobacco when it acquired it; However, this had to be planned and regulated by rules, not by underhand agreements that damage Yesmoke.
Circular 16D, of April 28th 2006, of the Customs Agency (Agenzia delle Dogane), though it is not a law, is an important opinion that should be followed. As a circular, it clarifies existing legislation and therefore regulates the VAT deposits instituted both before the publication of the circular as well as those instituted after its issue. Read more »
Foundations – The Sponsor First of All
Philip Morris, with British American Tobacco, finances «Italianieuropei» of Massimo D'Alema, while on BAT’s pay sheets, there are also «Formiche», of Follini, and «Magna Carta» of Berlusconi’s senator Quagliarello.
The tobacco multinationals have taken the place of the old political currents, and financing a galaxy of foundations and associations, they are conditioning the agenda of Italian politics.
Tracking down an identikit of the sponsors and knowing how much money they hand out to our politicians is not easy. Foundations, in fact, have no obligation to make their bookkeeping and sources of funding public. Read more »
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