Mastic Beach in Suffolk county on Long Island has the poospatuck Indian reservation. Cheap cigarettes and gasoline.
Yup. I live in NY, and I don’t know a single person who buys his cigarettes in a store.
In the City, there are vans driven by guys with names like “Vinnie the Kneebuster” who go around to their “usual customers” and sell ‘em out of the back.
There are others who travel down to Delaware, Virginia, or Pennsylvania once a month.
People are selling loosies in some neighborhoods.
But buying cigs from a store? I only ever see people get a pack at a time — MAYBE — because they haven’t gotten around to doing one of the above that day. I haven’t seen someone purchase a carton from a store in...hell...in YEARS.
The state did this to itself. It should be made to live with the consequences.
Regards,