Vertical bars on cigarettes to prove they are duty-paid and legal

[Leepotism]

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[TD="width: 784, colspan: 2"]New SDPC mark for cigarettes from March 1


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SINGAPORE: From March 1, cigarettes sold in Singapore which do not bear the new Singapore Duty-Paid Cigarette (SDPC) mark will be deemed duty-unpaid and illegal.

The new SDPC mark features a series of vertical bars around the cigarette stick.

The Singapore Customs said this allows enforcement officers and the public to easily differentiate duty-paid cigarettes from duty-unpaid or contraband cigarettes.

This measure will also enhance the effectiveness of the anti-contraband cigarette operations that Singapore Customs conducts across the island to curb the selling, buying and possession of contraband cigarettes.

To give manufacturers and retailers sufficient time to phase in the new SDPC mark, cigarettes bearing the new SDPC mark were allowed to be sold from 1 December 2012.

Travellers who bring in cigarettes from overseas for their own consumption are required to declare them at the Customs Red Channel for payment of duty and Goods and Services Tax (GST).

And they are advised to keep the receipt issued by Singapore Customs as proof of payment of duty and GST.

Those who buy, sell, deliver, store, keep, possess or deal with duty-unpaid goods face stiff penalties.

They could be fined up to 40 times the amount of duty evaded and jailed for up to six years.[/TD]
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[Leepotism]

So these morons think smugglers cannot imitate the bars.

 

[peppertail]

So these morons think smugglers cannot imitate the bars.

Was thinking the same thing, what's so special about these bars that they can't be copied? Or is this to simply expose the already manufactured stock of illegal cigarettes?

 

[Vinnie]

So troublesome then don't sell lah!

 

[Bosco]

Smoking is bad for your health!

 

[Debonerman]

Just small print "Lee Hsien Loong PAP" all over the white paper part of the cigarette and there will be no question of its leegality.

 

[Leepotism]

Smoking is bad for your health!

Smoking has never been good for health.

 

[Leepotism]

Was thinking the same thing, what's so special about these bars that they can't be copied? Or is this to simply expose the already manufactured stock of illegal cigarettes?

They never learn. The last time the SDPC mark was so easily copied by the smugglers.

 

[Glaringly]

Wahlau eh!

Now buyers of unpaid duty cigarettes will carry a small black pen and will be busy drawing vertical lines before they took the puff.

 

[looneytan]

They never learn. The last time the SDPC mark was so easily copied by the smugglers.

they could have made the whole stick in red paper then next month change to blue paper

... like that smugglers have hard time to follow

 

[peppertail]

they could have made the whole stick in red paper then next month change to blue paper

... like that smugglers have hard time to follow

Haha, follow that through and very soon cigarette paper is made of dollar notes. Money is the hardest paper to copy.

The new plastic notes might give the cigarette a funny taste though. Also, can check for counterfeit note at the same time. Fake money burns in a different color.

Somebody should find or make a picture of such cigarette.

 

[peppertail]

Or simply use this, you will need it anyway if you smoke to much:

 

[50000]

Just small print "Lee Hsien Loong PAP" all over the white paper part of the cigarette and there will be no question of its leegality.

really ah? then i want to pick up smoking again man.....everyday burn burn burn those words very shiok....

 

[ykhuser]

So these morons think smugglers cannot imitate the bars.

u guys didnt know.
these unflashy bar when flash under uv light..u got the answer

 

[Fishypie]

Dont know simi Pattern they wiLL come up with Next..:(

 

[singveld]

Haha, follow that through and very soon cigarette paper is made of dollar notes. Money is the hardest paper to copy.

dollar notes not made of paper, soak a dollar note and real paper in water overnight and see what happen.

 

[watchman8]

Govt should innovate. For example require cigarettes to self extinguish every 5mm, so that smokers will need to reignite cigarette every three puffs. Like that sure cannot enjoy smoking, and finally give up bad habit.

 

[halsey02]

Smoking is bad for your health!

Taxes is good for THEIR health...that is why the can not just ban cigarette..like chewing gum.

 

[Fishypie]

Guessed it's time to switch to Ang Hoon or back to BLend11 or Drum..

 

[glockman]

And I thought the vertical bars were to tell the smoker its time to discard the ciggie.