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jquest12 t1_j400l76 wrote

Is there a black market cigarette industry?

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MongFondler t1_j403v3r wrote

It's huge in the UK, not only are there illegal imports from Europe but there are "fake" cigarettes usually made from terrible cheap tobacco smuggled in from China and assembled here

Bare in mind our cigarettes are taxed insanely high. My gran smoked regal (probably the most expensive price bracket) and they were £14.12.

80% of that is tax I believe.

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MattyLaa2022 t1_j40g9r7 wrote

I'm buying imported B&H menthol clicks for 6.50 a pack under the counter. I'm not the exception. You can get fake L&B for a fiver. Every other polish or corner shop sells import/knock-off cigs.

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Panic_Azimuth t1_j4011n0 wrote

I know snuggling them over the border from the US into Canada is, or at least was, a thing.

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ItsJustATux t1_j40qr5a wrote

There certainly is in America. You can buy single cigarettes from smoke shops, gas stations, and random guys on the street. Our police choked a guy to death over it a few years ago. This might be a reasonable policy in other nations, but we know US cops will kill people over this. They’ve already done it.

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