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And we love the French! Viva le France!
1 posted on 01/12/2015 10:29:17 AM PST by not2be4gotten.com
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So you can fill the trunk of your car with cigs, in Serbia, drive to France and make a nice living selling cigs on the streets (Metro stations) of Paris, there.

As long as the police don't choke you to death for it.

2 posted on 01/12/2015 10:34:48 AM PST by Vince Ferrer
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When I got into Sarajevo right after the siege was broken, the city fathers were proudest of the fact that their cigarette factory continued to produce throughout the 1000 day siege. They presented us with packs of cigarettes to prove their claim. I still have mine somewhere.

Smoking is mandatory in the Balkans, I think.


4 posted on 01/12/2015 10:51:19 AM PST by centurion316
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Don’t try that in NYC.


7 posted on 01/12/2015 12:20:36 PM PST by bgill (CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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Why euros are not fat. They smoke.


8 posted on 01/12/2015 12:23:51 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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You could get rich selling loosies in NYC!


9 posted on 01/12/2015 12:30:41 PM PST by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not A Matter of Opinion)
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Back before all our tobacco sales went to contract

with companies there used to be groups of Japanese buyers

come to our town after our Burley.

Those Asians are pretty big smokers too.


10 posted on 01/12/2015 1:53:58 PM PST by Harold Shea
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Price of tobacco is low in Serbia due to government attempts to break the Serbian mafia’s control of the tobacco smuggling after the breakup of Yugoslavia. So many Serbian politicians’ were either on the take or afraid of the mafia during Tadic’s presidency they couldn’t find the will to take on the problem, so the solution was to simply remove all profit from the market, hence cheapest cigs in most of Europe.

Grew up with a guy who’s family fled Bosnia before the war, family owned a substantial legitimate tobacco distribution warehouse/distro company, when father/uncle were late with bribe money, mafia burned down warehouse, all trucks, uncle’s house, killed an elderly relative who tried to stop the house burning, and told family they had 24 hours to leave country. Family went from stable upper middle class to penniless immigrants in New Jersey over course of 3 weeks. He told me the mafia systematically did the same before the civil war to every Soviet-era distribution/warehouse owner that didn’t surrender their warehouses.


12 posted on 01/12/2015 2:40:07 PM PST by JerseyHighlander
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Greedy governments make their own crime.


14 posted on 01/12/2015 2:46:39 PM PST by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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When I was in Ukraine in 2013, I think I was paying about a buck for a pack of Marlboros. That was up from about $0.60/pack when I visited in 2009. Marlboros in the Republic of Georgia were $9/carton. Granted, these are the export version of Marlboros produced in either Switzerland or Germany. And Marlboros were what the rich people smoked. I could've bought the local brands for half that.

Last year at the duty-free port in Bahrain, Marlboros were sold in packages of 3 cartons for $57, up from $10/Carton when I last visited the Middle East in 2007. When I was in England in 2012, I recall Marlboros costing about 7.5 GBP a pack, the most I've ever paid for cigarettes.

15 posted on 01/12/2015 2:54:35 PM PST by Drew68
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