[wipeout97]

Please do your part and take 1 minute out of your day to tell politicians you disagree with their greed. No need to register for anything, just sign this petition.

[url]http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/us-citzens-against-the-pact-act-of-2009-s1147[/url]

Can we place this on the homepage?

[cooljay788]

That's the site owner's decision. But if he wants to hear my vote since I'm a forum moderator, my vote is YES. I even got that petition up as a link on my blog.

The petition link NEEDS to be on the cigreviews home page ASAP! Since this site is not just prosmoking friendly. But online smoke shop friendly too!

[wbb86]

SIGNED. We all need to do this!

[wipeout97]

364 Signatures.........if I would the Senate I would feel no one opposed this and pass it immediately. I've personally gotten at least 30 of those signatures on the page (e-mailed my friends who smoke and some who do not). Looks like most smokers truly don't care.

[cooljay788]

Most smokers are brainwashed into thinking they're 2nd class citizens indeed. But I'm a serious smoker who didn't fall for that poison antismokers created. If more smokers were serious and were more like me in not believing the lies towards smokers, they would care then.

[cooldude]

Originally Posted by wipeout97 364 Signatures.........if I would the Senate I would feel no one opposed this and pass it immediately. I've personally gotten at least 30 of those signatures on the page (e-mailed my friends who smoke and some who do not). Looks like most smokers truly don't care.

Fellow smokers at cigreviews, I believe most smokers don't know about this. It is going to be a total surprise to most smokers if this gets enacted. I signed the petition against HR1676 which was the house bill that was put forward by Anthony Weiner and passed earlier this year. That petition had 24,000+ signatures on it. I believe nobody in Congress ever saw that online petition. Definitely sign the petition at the URL above anyway.

Only a mass of phone calls to the DC switchboard and asking to speak to YOUR US Senator from YOUR home state will do any good at all IMHO. You must be a registered voter with a good address to be validated. You can't expect anyone to listen to you if you are calling a Senator from another state other than your own state and they can't verify that you are a bona fide constituent.
When you call, be sure to give the name and number of the bill you are calling about - S.1147 - the PACT ACT of 2009 and then state your position. Do it clearly and concisely. Don't lose your temper and act like a goofbag. Figure out what your position is and just state you position. Do it with both your state senator phone numbers and do it twice. Do it everyday.

Emailing these senators does absolutely nothing since they do not read the emails. All these senators have armies of mostly non-smoker support personnel that intercept the emails and these same support workers many times have their own anti-smoker agendas. Hand written letters have the most pronounced effect. You have the right still to voice your opinion. Be a part of the political process. If you do nothing, you will suffer for it when this bill passes. Do it today.

IF YOU are a bona fide constituent and you have a friend or relative whom personally knows one of these senators, try to arrange a contact or meeting.

I believe most Postal workers will also be surprised by this. I would ask you to join the Postal Employees Network and make posts on there about this bill and what it will do to the package mail volume at the USPS. Type postalemployeenetwork into your address bar and push Ctrl+Enter and you will go to their website.

I wish you all the best in your efforts to stop this.