You're kidding right? I pay $26 a carton here.
Yeah, more than that in NYC. In 2002, a pack of cigs there cost something like $7.80! Yikes!
I wish I was. It hit $50 in the early 1990s which led to a boom in smuggling; Canadian manufacturers exported to the USA and the smugglers brought them back and sold them for $20. Taxes were cut and the legal price dropped to $25, and the fed imposed a $10 tax on exports. Over the past few years the taxes have crept back up, so some enterprising natives set up their own cigarette factories on reserve lands where all businesses are tax-exempt. Every reserver is now teeming with smoke shops that do a land-office business.
The premium native brands are every bit as good as (arguably better than) the national brands and the generics are passable.
You're kidding right? I pay $26 a carton here.
About $67/carton in NJ. Wife and I both quit this year completely. I was down to about 5-7 smokes a day, but until she finally decided to stop, I was having trouble finishing it. I did two weeks on the #3(weakest) patch, she went 2 weeks on patch #1, 8 on patch #2 and 2 weeks on patch #3. It's nice to not pay those greedy ass politicians another penny in cig tax.
And yes, the tax was definately part of the equation.