US Cigarette Prices
Sep 9, 2008 | 1:41 pm
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Sep 9, 2008 | 2:38 pm
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Sep 9, 2008 | 9:15 pm
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Or maybe he (she) did but chose to do the right thing - encourage you to quit smoking!
Mods, please delete this thread as it promotes a clearly harmful (and possibly illegal, if the reader is under age) activity that we should not promote in any way. FT is about air travel, more generally about sharing travel experiences and opinions or even "OMNI topics", but not about advertising cigarette prices.
http://www.smokefree.gov/
Mods, please delete this thread as it promotes a clearly harmful (and possibly illegal, if the reader is under age) activity that we should not promote in any way. FT is about air travel, more generally about sharing travel experiences and opinions or even "OMNI topics", but not about advertising cigarette prices.
http://www.smokefree.gov/
Sep 9, 2008 | 9:35 pm
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Actually please don't, 25% of the US population are smokers, like it or not this IS related to travel as it centers around the purchase a product while traveling.
Your post and now mine, are off topic.
Your post and now mine, are off topic.
Sep 10, 2008 | 8:21 am
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Why not put international prices up too? 
E.g. Luckies (my brand)
Germany: €3.90 / Pack of 17 / fixed price
England: £5.80+ (20) depending on store.
Spain: €2.65 (fixed)
Well than apparently it's cheaper to buy duty free cigarettes on a BA flight (£19.50 / carton) than after arrival in CA, right?
E.g. Luckies (my brand)
Germany: €3.90 / Pack of 17 / fixed price
England: £5.80+ (20) depending on store.
Spain: €2.65 (fixed)
Well than apparently it's cheaper to buy duty free cigarettes on a BA flight (£19.50 / carton) than after arrival in CA, right?
Sep 10, 2008 | 8:27 am
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That actually reminds of my plan on doing a 'cigarette run' instead of a mileage run... :-)
15 Cartons is pretty much the explainable legal limit within the EU (own consumption / not smuggling). Those (calculating 200/carton) would cost 397.50 in spain or 688.20 in Germany... so taking a 40 Ryanair flight could turn out saving me quite a bit of money...
15 Cartons is pretty much the explainable legal limit within the EU (own consumption / not smuggling). Those (calculating 200/carton) would cost 397.50 in spain or 688.20 in Germany... so taking a 40 Ryanair flight could turn out saving me quite a bit of money...
Sep 10, 2008 | 9:18 am
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I have been getting my cigarettes whenever I travel to Argentina. I thought the locally produced Marlboro Light was a bargain at around $13 a carton. Until last week when I went to the Philippines, theirs came out to about $8 a carton. They have imported Marlboro too (from Switzerland I think), but they cost a lot more. I couldn't tell the difference between the local ones and the ones I got here in the states.
Sep 10, 2008 | 10:10 am
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back to topic, I used to buy smokes down in NC and SC for friends when I drove truck. A carton was about 1/3 of the price in MN. Its been about 5 years, so I don't know if its still the same
Sep 11, 2008 | 7:52 am
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Russia has very cheap cigarettes (but personally I can't stand the taste of the tobacco here, and buy them duty free when I'm in Europe and bring em here) It's $1-1.50 a pack for Marlboros, or about $12 a carton.
Sep 11, 2008 | 10:15 am
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