Merry Christmas from Yesmoke!

HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO EVERYONE FROM OCCUPIED YESMOKE!

The State Monopoly Agency - AAMS (Azienda Autonoma Monopoli di Stato) has been trying to close down our factory in Settimo, but we are working around the clock and we are busy assembling new machinery; in the next few days we will be taking on 24 new workers. Yesmoke today is a global company, it is the rebirth of cigarette production in Italy. The company is going to grow bigger and bigger and it will bring order to that jungle of illegality that is today’s Italian market of processed tobaccos. Read more »

Are you a “Pain in the Ass”? Come and Work with Us

I want you for YesmokeIf you are against war, if you have taken part in union struggles, if you have protested in demonstrations even if they were not authorized, if you have not become a member of the Freemasonry to get ahead in your career… Then, send your Curriculum Vitae to Yesmoke Tobacco S.p.A. Working with Yesmoke is not like being at the service of a multinational parasite that is looting your country. Rather it means being part of a company with a mission: to free Italy from the canker of «Big Tobacco», namely Philip Morris, BAT and Japan Tobacco, along with their supporters. Read more »

Cigarette Taxes in Italy – Lobbyists Unleashed

Alberto Giorgetti“An increase in fiscal pressure would push consumers towards the illegal market, because only a policy of gradual increases of the list prices and the capillary distribution system have enabled us to keep smuggling under control”. These are the words of the undersecretary of the Economy Alberto Giorgetti, speaking at the round table «Verso una regolamentazione bilanciata del settore tabacco» (Towards a Balanced Regulation of the Tobacco Sector) held on last October 13th. The meeting was promoted by the Industry, Commerce and Tourist Commission of the Senate, and funded, it is worth noting, by the “friends” of British American Tobacco.

The “gradual increases”, according to Onorevole Giorgetti, would be those implemented by the tobacco manufacturers when they decide to raise their prices and earn more; this is not to be confused with an increase of the tax pressure. And the “capillary distribution system” he refers to is nothing more than the tobacco shops. Read more »

Marlboro & Ferrari - Cigarettes for Dickheads… an Auto of Dickheads

Ferrari Testa Rossa incidenteFerrari has announced that it is extending its relationship of collaboration with Philip Morris to 2015. The automaker’s liaison with Marlboro continues in spite of the fact that six years ago the sponsorship of tobacco brands was prohibited. The wily cigarette makers don’t give in. Evidently the law is applicable to others, not to them. So, the official name of the team remains the Ferrari Marlboro Racing Stable -«Scuderia Ferrari Marlboro», unperturbed.

In the meantime, the joyful announcement is given publicity in all the world’s newspapers, and those who criticize it are doing them a further favor because they are just increasing the visibility of the sponsor. Read more »

"Legal Gambling" the Italian Way: Who is the "Mafia"?

Giuseppe Pisanu

Giuseppe Pisanu, President of the Anti-Mafia Commission, stated that in the gambling sector, every year, at least 50 billion euro are stolen from the State

Ten officials of the AAMS (Azienda Autonoma Monopoli di Stato – Autonomous State Monopolies Agency) of Palermo have been investigated by the DIA (Direzione Investigativa Antimafia – Antimafia Investigation Department) with charges of corruption compounded by Mafia association in exchange for privileges in the granting of licenses for some gaming houses.

Giuseppe Pisanu, president of the Antimafia Commisssion commented: “When we suggest a two-year financial package of 38 billion euro, public opinion starts to fibrillate, but when we show that only on gaming, criminal organizations pocket at least 50 billion euro a year, no one seems to care”.

Fine words. But who is Pisanu talking about? Some Palermo organization that has made money on gambling casinos in the city suburbs or the Atlantis World Group of the Caribbean island of St. Maarten, principal concessionaire on the entire Italian territory.

The group that has absconded with billions of euro of the Italian people from legal slot machines; the affair is run from Rome and leads to Gianfranco Fini, president of the House, the third most important position of the central government, and to his trusted henchman Amedeo Laboccetta? Read more »

China: Dictatorship of the Population of Smokers

Smoke famous name, ChinaWinston Churchill used to say: “If two people are smoking under a NO SMOKING sign, you fine them; if twenty people are smoking under a NO SMOKING sign, you ask them to move on; if two hundred people are smoking under a NO SMOKING sign, you remove the sign”.

China seems to be following Churchill’s advice: on the first of May, new regulations on smoking in public places came into effect, but the smokers, who here are 350 million, dictate the law and continue to smoke as before.

The Chinese National Office for Tobacco Control foresaw that smokers would probably not be afraid to light up their cigarettes wherever and whenever they wanted; the authorities expected that before seeing any results, decades would pass and massive sensitization campaigns would be needed. Yet in China laws are generally enforced with great vigor and convictions are common; for crimes like corruption, a person can be executed. Read more »

2011: Del Gizzo Defeats Visco, Big Tobacco Continues to Be the Boss

Stop ai ladri!In 2000, the Italian Minister of Finance Vicenzo Visco brought legal action against the ex-director general of the AAMS - the State Monopoly Agency - Ernesto Del Gizzo related to an interview published in the newspaper La Padania; the interview centered on the issue of tax evasion and smuggling of Philip Morris in Italy.

Today Del Gizzo was acquitted. In these eleven years, though his statements have been confirmed by sentences of the Court of Cassation, the Regional Court - TAR, the Council of State, the Constitutional Court and the European Union, the multinationals of cigarette production have taken over the entire national market and are continuing to steal. Read more »

Japan Tobacco: A Total Tax Evader, Gives Alms in Lombardy

Roberto Formigoni

Roberto Formigoni, president of the Lombardy Region

When one leaves an unpaid bill that would make the Guinness Book of Records, we would expect that someone would try to make him pay up, but, on the contrary…

The president to the Lombardy Region, Roberto Formigoni, in a touching ceremony, awarded a plaque to Pier Carlo Alessiani, director of Japan Tobacco Italia, for the company’s support to the elderly of Milan.

With profits that exceed 500%, Japan Tobacco succeeds in taking home the total sum without paying a euro of tax. This is because the business it declares in Italy is «Società di consulenza & pubbliche relazioni, ingrosso beni durevoli vari» (Consulting and public Relations Company, wholesale various durable goods). Why did Formigoni, instead of spitting in his face, as the popular Italian comic Totò would have done, feel the need to reward the CEO making Japan Tobacco look like a benevolent, meritorious company? Read more »

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