Mastercard - no tobacco purchases?

Originally Posted by webjunkie

I could be wrong but I thought that Mastercard had started this with illegal cigarette sales online and that if a vendor was in compliance with all federal, state, and local laws then they didn't have a problem. I could have missed them banning all tobacco purchases.

Yep the rule was because of cigs and the taxing, here is the link to the story from 2005.

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Chas