As long as the police don't choke you to death for it.
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.
Don’t try that in NYC.
Why euros are not fat. They smoke.
You could get rich selling loosies in NYC!
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.
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.
Greedy governments make their own crime.
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.