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(Press Release: PoliticalNews.me)

[WASHINGTON, D.C.] U.S. Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) was joined by Senators Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) to introduce the Tobacco Tax Equity Act to close loopholes in the tax code that allow tobacco companies to avoid the federal cigarette and roll-your-own (RYO) tobacco tax. Because pipe tobacco is taxed at a lower rate than cigarettes, some companies have begun offering the option of purchasing pipe tobacco and allowing customers to roll their own cigarettes to avoid paying the federal cigarette tax. 

By Gary Korb

Last month, I was sitting at my desk not bothering anybody when Warren, one of my co-workers, came in and handed me a slip of paper with a name and phone number on it. When I asked him what it was about, Warren said that a customer (we'll call him "Sam")  wanted me to contact him about some cigars he had purchased on vacation in The Dominican Republic. The first thing that came to mind was counterfeit Cubans. (I had dealt with this kind of thing before on a number of occasions.)  So, I called Sam, and it wasn't about counterfeit Havanas at all, but something much closer to home...

(Cigar Rights of America)

Fairfax, VA -- Another U.S. Senator has said “Yes to Liberty!” Louisiana U.S. Senator David Vitter is the latest member of the United States Senate to join in the chorus of voices to the U.S. Food & Drug Administration, “Stay out of America's Humidors!”