What's Up With The PACT act?

The PACT act feels like some slimy legislation if you ask me. It's like it was passed right in front of our face, but if you're someone like me I certainly did not see this thing coming and if I had known I probably wouldn't have thought that 'the people' would let it actually get signed into law, but here we are. It's the Prevent All Cigarette Trafficking act, and they say it is designed to help state economies garner their tobacco excise taxes as well as help to prevent underage sell of tobacco. It targets Internet sales. All this is fine, but to do that by telling USPS, UPS, FedEx, and DHL that it will be Illegal to ship cigarettes and smokeless tobacco?! It is truly strange because on the one hand they are saying there must be age-verification practices in place upon shipping and receiving from company to consumer and on the other hand USPS is saying that they can no longer ship tobacco, period. These two protocols do not mix. It also makes exotic tobacco purchases from the rest of the world hard to acquire because as is obvious, you can't require foreign countries to collect and pay US Tobacco taxes on their products. That's a lot of headache and for what? Are US tobacco consumers so valuable to foreign lands that they will indulge the US this red tape? I doubt it. Another few interesting tidbits about this legislation that passed by quite a margin in The House and Senate before being signed into law by Obama is that flavored cigarettes are now outlawed because they say they are more desirable to underage kids. This is true, but what about the adults who like them? Another thing, and yet even more notable is that cigars were not included in this ban. That's not surprising in one sense and yet in another it stinks. The legislators claim that this law is aimed at teens and pre-teens, yet haven't cigar sales been on the rise for upwards of ten years now? Of those who smoke or want to smoke cigars how many do you think might be teenage boys? Cigar smoking is the new 'thang', isn't it? I will tell you if you don't know. It IS. Take a look around you in the Media's portrayal of the smoking culture and notice what you see: the magazines and the movies mirror this rise in the Cigar Culture. A teen could still fairly easily purchase tobacco on-line, just as long as it's cigars and not cigarettes. Ok, good deal, winning legislation (wink, wink).
What's Really going on in the PACT Act? It seems to be a PACT alright, between some Big Tobacco, a quasi-union of Convenience Stores, and then all the US anti-smoking guns, medical and otherwise, jump on. It serves all their purposes, but for different reasons and they're all bedfellows until they have a tryst. Ok, fine. My whole complaint with this law is that it is making it very challenging for me to acquire the British Dry Snuff that I so enjoy and purchase regularly from the UK. I am 43, so I'm old enough. I pay for it legally with verifiable electronic means, and I am willing and able to both pay taxes on the products and verify my age upon delivery (post office pick-up). Why not leave the UK and other parts of the world where many us buy our tobacco out of the net? In my case, I was buying it from an Internet Tobacconist in my town, but he has sense closed up shop because USPS will not deliver the product any longer. In other cases I bought from abroad due to availability; I had to buy direct, US based whole sellers wouldn't carry the products because of lean US demand for them. This law is making it hard for a snuff taker like me to get the creme de la creme that he enjoys. I am both legal and have the money yet I can't buy it. Obama signs PACT Act into law:
http://readme.readmedia.com/PACT-Act-Signed-Into-Law-by-President-Will-Cut-In...