I like living at the border.

[SlowwHand]

cats > dogs > reptiles

[Hauldren Collider]

But then, you've probably never tried it.

Of course I've never tried it, I'm not retarded. I worked at a grocery store last summer. Every single customer over 30 who bought cigarettes at my aisle, and I mean EVERY SINGLE ONE, sternly insisted to me that I never smoke. I'm dead serious, all of them, without exception, and I know this because I had to punch in their ages.

[Asher]

People who smoke in 2010 are interesting psychological subjects.

[Dinner]

QFT. Exactly what I was going to say.

I pay plenty of income taxes so I don't feel bad in the slightest especially since it is legal.

[Asher]

When you order things online, do you keep records and report them with your income tax so you pay sales tax on them too?

Because, by law, you need to do that in California.

[Hauldren Collider]

I pay plenty of income taxes so I don't feel bad in the slightest especially since it is legal.

Oerdin gets an A+ in Missing the Point.

[Drake Tungsten]

Oerdin's rating is higher than California's.

[SlowwHand]

Of course I've never tried it, I'm not retarded. I worked at a grocery store last summer. Every single customer over 30 who bought cigarettes at my aisle, and I mean EVERY SINGLE ONE, sternly insisted to me that I never smoke. I'm dead serious, all of them, without exception, and I know this because I had to punch in their ages.

Let me say this, that's the voice of experience talking.
When I grew up, it was a big deal for the cigarette companies to finally put "May Be Hazardous To Your Health" on the packs. Everyone on television and in the movies smoked. Ricky and Lucy Ricardo smoked. Dick Van ****. John Wayne. Humphrey Bogart. Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis. Andy Griffith.
It's been proven that tobacco is more addictive that heroin, so yeah, we know...now.
Don't get so up your ass about someone trying to make sure you know.

[Hauldren Collider]

Sloww, I'm not, I was trying to make the point that given all of this evidence and personal testimony I would have to be completely retarded to start smoking.

[rah]

I always thought it was required that you actually leave the country to take advantage of duty free prices. At the airports when you buy they deliver it to you on the airplane to make sure you're actually leaving the country.

[Asher]

That's my understanding as well.

I can't use the Toronto duty-free shops unless I show a boarding pass showing I am leaving the country.

[Dinner]

You have to promise to take it over the border. No one verifies that you actually do it though.

[rah]

WOW, I figured it would be harder than that. I'm surprised that the non-duty shops in competition don't raise a big fuss over that.

[Dinner]

The shop I linked to is a good 1/4 mile from the border so it's not like they can follow each costumer to the border to make sure they cross and then just drive right back. Technically, you have to cross and come back but most people just skip that step and drive home.

[rah]

Hell, in Illinois they used to have spotters across the border in Indiana to tag Illinois license plates for those that drove across the border to buy cigarettes to avoid the higher Illinois/Chicago taxes. If you drove right back to Illinois, you were pulled over.