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Ken Barlow

Cigarettes are something like $20 per pack in New York. The smuggling is done in the "dark web" and by that I mean the regular Internet and some people buy Russian branded American cigarettes for pennies on the dollar. But I'm not keyed into the black market enough to know where to buy them by the pack, only where my buddy told me be bought them by the case. They were essentially exported American cigarettes, Marlboro red label hard packs, shipped in from overseas. It's nuts. Just goes to show, every tax and every restriction just creates a successful black market that avoids all of it.

Martin Kovář

Are you serious? 20 bucks for a pack of cigarettes?

Ken Barlow

Yup. $18 for a single pack of Marlboro Reds in New York. Price varies by state taxes, but federal taxes cranks that price up everywhere.

Ken Barlow

Indian cigarettes, for example around here we have the Seneca Nation, sells for $40/ carton which is significantly cheaper, but people swear they aren't as good. I'm not a smoker, thankfully, but my brothers aren't big fans of them. Maybe they're more natural and have less addictive add-ons?

Ross Niemi

I refuse to say charCUTE in place of charcuterie. This word play, like "vacay" and "bougie", makes my brain feel like its oozing out of my ear holes. With that said, I await with morbid fascination to see what people will come up with in place of "hors d'oeuvres".

Ross Niemi

I had to do a double take, but yeah, you're right about New York City. I remember in Canada cigarettes were about 50% more than the US average, but that's still under the cost of New York cigarettes (so fancy).