[I Hired Craig Livingstone]

Yes, it is legal, BUT you are limited to 5 cartons a month before you have to pay taxes through customs (to stay legal.)

And that's about what I smoke. Thanks. Looks like I'll be about a thousand dollars richer next year. : )

[SheLion]

And that's about what I smoke. Thanks. Looks like I'll be about a thousand dollars richer next year. : )

5 cartons is about what the average smoker goes through. That's about right for me.

You won't believe the extra money for Christmas. Put the tax money in a jar, starting soon, and by Christmas, you will have a nice nest egg. :)

[Grit]

And that's about what I smoke. Thanks. Looks like I'll be about a thousand dollars richer next year.*

* truth is contagious (to borrow a phrase from the enemy)

[Gabz]

Looks like I'll be about a thousand dollars richer next year. : )

You may be surprised, it may even be more.

Last weekend I sat down and actually did the math. In the 2 years that my husband and I have been making our own cigs we have cost the state of Delaware an average of over a thousand dollars each year in taxes and MSA payments alone, and Delaware cig taxes are only 2.40 a carton. We have also kept over 600 a year from the Feds.

These are just the sin taxes on the cigs we are saving. The average for a carton of major brand cigs arond here is about $24 - at least $10 of that is taxes and MSA payments, so you're looking at roughly $14 in cost for the carton before taxes. Our cigs cost us $6.50 carton.

In this 2 smoker household we are saving well over 2 grand a year. But what is really sweet, about 1500 of it is money that would have otherwise gone to the government.