# Most expensive place to buy cigarettes?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-expensive-place-to-buy-cigarettes/343890>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [February 10, 2006, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-expensive-place-to-buy-cigarettes/343890 "2006-02-10T18:45:46Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![dbuzman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9de0a6/32.png) [@dbuzman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dbuzman)\
**Post date:** [February 12, 2006, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-expensive-place-to-buy-cigarettes/343890/21 "2006-02-12T06:31:57Z")

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The part of Pa. I live in a carton of marlboros goes for about 45 bucks. The reservation store in NY where I buy mine a carton costs $24.95. Other stores on the same reservation may sell them for a little less but where I buy them they are always fresh. I go about once a month and get 4 cartons and put 3 in the freezer.

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**Author:** ![BabaBooey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/dfb087/32.png) [@BabaBooey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BabaBooey)\
**Post date:** [February 12, 2006, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-expensive-place-to-buy-cigarettes/343890/22 "2006-02-12T06:49:13Z")

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> [@jasonh300](#):
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> Back then (this was about 8 years ago), cigarettes in New Orleans could still be found for $2.00 a pack (20 in a pack).

~$3.25 now. On the other hand, $4.50 will get you a buy-one-get-one-free pack of Camel Lights, and there are some places that are almost constantly selling them.

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**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\
**Post date:** [February 12, 2006, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-expensive-place-to-buy-cigarettes/343890/23 "2006-02-12T06:57:46Z")

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> [@fishbicycle](#):
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> I pay $12.99 for a canister of tobacco that lasts about 2 1/2 weeks. It’s as though it was the world’s best-kept secret that some of us don’t have to take out a loan to buy cigarettes.

Join the club…I buy the canister of Drum, and get about two weeks from it and it too costs about the same…and if I go to the Indian reservation about 14 miles away, it is about 3/4 the price.

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**Author:** ![Osip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/4491bb/32.png) [@Osip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Osip)\
**Post date:** [February 12, 2006, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-expensive-place-to-buy-cigarettes/343890/24 "2006-02-12T19:16:02Z")

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My guess is going to be somewhere in Rhode Island who has the highest state tax per pack.  
(source)  
[http://www.taxadmin.org/fta/rate/cigarett.html](http://www.taxadmin.org/fta/rate/cigarett.html)

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