You can’t make individual sales legally because of the taxes involved. A pack of cigarettes has a state (and in NYC, perhaps a city) tax stamp on it. A pack purchased in Virginia can’t legally be sold in NY (or most anywhere else) because the local taxes haven’t been paid on it. Big money can be made by smuggling out-of-state cigarettes from low-tax states to high-tax states to evade the taxes and pocket the difference.
Funny thing is that smuggling was going on in the 1960s (from Kentucky to Ohio) when the difference was pennies per pack.
I worked in a auto plant and there were always guys selling low tax Ky cigs out of their car trunk.
Hmm didn’t know that. I thought it was like any other item in which if you purchased it’s yours, taxes were already paid and you can sell it if you want to.