Counterfeit Cigarettes Filled With Rabbit Droppings Confiscated

News Type: Opinion — Seeded on Wed Nov 18, 2009 10:10 PM EST

More than $2 million worth of counterfeit cigarettes filled with rabbit droppings instead of tobacco have been confiscated by customs officials in Spain.

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J. M. Van Horn

Just another reason why I am glad I do not smoke

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4 votes

#1 - Wed Nov 18, 2009 10:11 PM EST

{"commentId":10768897,"authorDomain":"overmountainman"}

onomatopoeia

This just might be the motivation I needed to quit!

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3 votes

#1.1 - Thu Nov 19, 2009 2:45 AM EST

{"commentId":10769409,"authorDomain":"shock-treatment65"}

JeniferD

Rabbit droppings? EEWWWW!!!! Glad I'm not a smoker. LMAO!!!

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3 votes

#1.2 - Thu Nov 19, 2009 5:26 AM EST

{"commentId":10766331,"authorDomain":"hsquared"}

hsquared-1401940

That must have been what Cheech and Chong were smoking, when they said "this is some good sh!t".

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5 votes

#2 - Wed Nov 18, 2009 10:55 PM EST

{"commentId":10770956,"authorDomain":"jimmyjamm93442"}

Jim420

yup, part Labradore, part mexican, and prolly where the Chinese got the idea.

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3 votes

#2.1 - Thu Nov 19, 2009 9:00 AM EST

{"commentId":10766660,"authorDomain":"bonosrama"}

bonos_rama

Who could tell the difference??

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2 votes

#3 - Wed Nov 18, 2009 11:12 PM EST

{"commentId":10766762,"authorDomain":"schmittyj"}

SchmittyJ

Damn, I smoke... I can just see it now:

"Man! These Spanish cigarettes taste like @!$%#!" lol...

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3 votes

#4 - Wed Nov 18, 2009 11:17 PM EST

{"commentId":10767280,"authorDomain":"legallyblondeyoungn"}

WittyBlonde

I smoke :-(

That makes me not wanna smoke, though, if I were to not think about it, the urge for nicotene probably overpowers the desire to not light one up...

......yea, I like my cigarettes. I'll be checking them for rabbit @!$%# from now on :-)

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3 votes

#5 - Wed Nov 18, 2009 11:50 PM EST

{"commentId":10767561,"authorDomain":"piletre"}

Piletre

Reminds me of the old kid's joke about "smart pills"...

Punch lines:

"These smart pills taste like chit!"

"Seee?? You're getting smarter already!"

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2 votes

#6 - Thu Nov 19, 2009 12:12 AM EST

{"commentId":10770995,"authorDomain":"jimmyjamm93442"}

Jim420

my Grandpa used to tell me that joke everytime we were on a long trip. thanks for the memory.

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2 votes

#6.1 - Thu Nov 19, 2009 9:02 AM EST

{"commentId":10767715,"authorDomain":"tydicea"}

Tony in Arizona

If I were a smoker after reading this I would quit, if I never started I never would. Damn!

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2 votes

#7 - Thu Nov 19, 2009 12:24 AM EST

{"commentId":10767786,"authorDomain":"legallyblondeyoungn"}

WittyBlonde

Ah, then you cleary are lucky to have never experienced this horrible addiction.

It is hard, I am in the process of trying to quit.

It is definatly not as easy as it may sound.

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5 votes

#7.1 - Thu Nov 19, 2009 12:29 AM EST

{"commentId":10768893,"authorDomain":"tydicea"}

Tony in Arizona

Good luck, Wittyblonde, I hope you are successful in trying to quit. I'd hate to think that one of these type cigarettes ends up in pack you buy. :-)

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3 votes

#7.2 - Thu Nov 19, 2009 2:43 AM EST

{"commentId":10770211,"authorDomain":"legallyblondeyoungn"}

WittyBlonde

my cigarettes are packed right in richmond va, I dont think I have much to worry about :-P nevertheless, smoking is a horrible habit.

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2 votes

#7.3 - Thu Nov 19, 2009 8:03 AM EST

{"commentId":10767980,"authorDomain":"sme5028"}

cookiedoughbum

my new years resolution is to quit! lets see how it'll go..... as for this article.... who would fall for rabbit crap in a cigarette? you can tell when a cigarette has tobacco in it.

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3 votes

#8 - Thu Nov 19, 2009 12:45 AM EST

{"commentId":10769052,"authorDomain":"overmountainman"}

onomatopoeia

good luck... I am going to try before NY as resolutions always seem to be an automatic jinx for me.

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1 vote

#8.1 - Thu Nov 19, 2009 3:22 AM EST

{"commentId":10811159,"authorDomain":"sme5028"}

cookiedoughbum

Ny jacked up their prices.... I remember going to NYC and had to pay $7.25 for a pack... this was a year or so ago and I was used to paying somewhere around $5.25

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#8.2 - Fri Nov 20, 2009 11:09 PM EST

{"commentId":10768930,"authorDomain":"michaellonkouski"}

mike lonkouski

That's good smoke right there. In some countries you have to pay extra for rabbit droppings!

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2 votes

#9 - Thu Nov 19, 2009 2:53 AM EST

{"commentId":10790073,"authorDomain":"Randilly"}

Randilly

What the heck is this? Some kind of PRC social engineering experiment?

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1 vote

#10 - Thu Nov 19, 2009 10:28 PM EST

{"commentId":10804792,"authorDomain":"ruthlessmoose"}

ruthlessmoose

but you look SOOOO cool while smoking them.

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3 votes

#11 - Fri Nov 20, 2009 3:58 PM EST

{"commentId":10809286,"authorDomain":"godendoder666"}

godendoder666

Worthless plastic crap, toxic worthless sheetrock, self combusting electronics and now this. It's high time to ban all "merchandise" from China.

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3 votes

#12 - Fri Nov 20, 2009 8:57 PM EST

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