# Smokers, how much do you pay for cigarettes? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 13, 2004, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smokers-how-much-do-you-pay-for-cigarettes/250043 "2004-06-13T00:36:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tellmei_mnotcrazy/32/3419_2.png) [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2004, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smokers-how-much-do-you-pay-for-cigarettes/250043/21 "2004-06-13T04:49:29Z")
I order from yesmoke as well, and it’s dirt cheap and the cigs are decent. But if I end up buying a pack, I end up paying 5.50 a pack around here. If I run out at work and have to buy cigs in NYC, it usually costs me about 7.50 a pack. It’s no wonder I’ve dropped to less than half a pack a day. ---
**Author:** ![Fritz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c57346/32.png) [@Fritz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fritz)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2004, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smokers-how-much-do-you-pay-for-cigarettes/250043/22 "2004-06-13T05:47:25Z")
$2.99 a pack (purchased by the carton - not including tax) in SoCal. I’ve recently gotten them for $2.70 per in a BX (military) here. I’ve recently heard an NPR report that New Yorkers are paying up to $70.00 per carton. That would cause me to quit… ---
**Author:** ![Queen\_Tonya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/4491bb/32.png) [@Queen\_Tonya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Tonya)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2004, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smokers-how-much-do-you-pay-for-cigarettes/250043/23 "2004-06-13T05:51:30Z")
I like Newports, woe is me. :smack: 7-11 type stores run $5 a pack, I generally pay 38 per carton at the smoke shop. They're talking about another .75 tax increase per pack here, because, you know, it’s the smokers job to balance the state budget. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2004, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smokers-how-much-do-you-pay-for-cigarettes/250043/24 "2004-06-13T06:39:14Z")
$3.19 for a pack of Marlboro Milds. ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2004, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smokers-how-much-do-you-pay-for-cigarettes/250043/25 "2004-06-13T11:50:44Z")
Locally, they’re roughly fifty bucks a carton. Which is why I always order [online](http://www.djsmokeshop.com/). $25.25/carton, thankyouverymuch. Wow…I can remember being pissed off when they hit $1.00/pack. ---
**Author:** ![AllShookDown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d9b06d/32.png) [@AllShookDown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AllShookDown)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2004, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smokers-how-much-do-you-pay-for-cigarettes/250043/26 "2004-06-13T11:59:10Z")
> [@erislover](#): > > Dude. Link. [www.acornsmokeshop.com](http://www.acornsmokeshop.com) ---
**Author:** ![Sami41](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c57346/32.png) [@Sami41](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sami41)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2004, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smokers-how-much-do-you-pay-for-cigarettes/250043/27 "2004-06-13T12:16:33Z")
Thanks for all the replies. So far, it looks like the average is around $3.58. (I say _around_ because I didn’t do the math on the two-fer and three-fer’s and I wouldn’t know a pound from an ounce). All the same, it seems my local prices are above the average, but my newly found gas station is below. I’ll certainly be checking out the cigg by internet links you’ve provided. Thanks much! ~S ---
**Author:** ![kiffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/d78d45/32.png) [@kiffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kiffa)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2004, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smokers-how-much-do-you-pay-for-cigarettes/250043/28 "2004-06-13T12:33:00Z")
Slightly under 10,000 Congolese Francs for a carton of Dunhill Reds; not duty free. That works out to under $30.00. ---
**Author:** ![erislover](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/71e660/32.png) [@erislover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/erislover)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2004, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smokers-how-much-do-you-pay-for-cigarettes/250043/29 "2004-06-13T13:32:10Z")
Good links, guys, but it can’t beat loose tobacco prices. Thanks anyway. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![maleinblack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e5b9ba/32.png) [@maleinblack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/maleinblack)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2004, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smokers-how-much-do-you-pay-for-cigarettes/250043/30 "2004-06-13T13:53:17Z")
I dont smoke, but friends tell me that a pack of Marlboro lights is something like $1.80 here. Yes, India is a great place to be if you smoke! ---
**Author:** ![Bambi\_Hassenpfeffer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Bambi\_Hassenpfeffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bambi_Hassenpfeffer)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2004, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smokers-how-much-do-you-pay-for-cigarettes/250043/31 "2004-06-13T14:01:04Z")
> [@Really Not All That Bright](#): > > $3.19 for a pack of Marlboro Milds. I can guess where you buy them – it’s probably the same company I work for. Anyway, at my store: Misty: $2.34 Basic: $2.79 Marlboro: $3.19 Doral: $3.69 Everything else: $3.99 I can’t remember the carton prices for most of them, but I know that the $3.99 brands are $34.39 a carton. These are all exclusive of FL 6% sales tax and my county’s 1% sales tax. ---
**Author:** ![hawthorne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@hawthorne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hawthorne)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2004, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smokers-how-much-do-you-pay-for-cigarettes/250043/32 "2004-06-13T14:20:28Z")
Dunhill blue 25 $A 9.90 = $US 6.85 ---
**Author:** ![Sylkyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/da6949/32.png) [@Sylkyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylkyn)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2004, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smokers-how-much-do-you-pay-for-cigarettes/250043/33 "2004-06-13T14:57:51Z")
Until the last couple of weeks, Marlboros (I smoke Mediums) were $2.39 or $2.79 a pack in my neck of the woods. Depending on which store you happened to be in. Then they hopped up to about $2.59 and $3.00. I don’t buy by the carton (because I always end up smoking far more) but I know you can get Marlboros for $23.99 a carton and Camels for about the same. My boss smokes Benson and Hedges and they’re $4.10 a pack. Not sure why there is so much variation, but there definitely is. ---
**Author:** ![Queen\_Tonya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/4491bb/32.png) [@Queen\_Tonya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Tonya)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2004, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smokers-how-much-do-you-pay-for-cigarettes/250043/34 "2004-06-13T14:59:26Z")
Thank you, Thank You, THANK YOU for the links! I’ve just placed my first ever smokes order online. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2004, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smokers-how-much-do-you-pay-for-cigarettes/250043/35 "2004-06-13T15:50:16Z")
At the convenience stores and most vending machines, a pack of smokes in Tokyo will be somewhere around 250yen (US$2.30). ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2004, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smokers-how-much-do-you-pay-for-cigarettes/250043/36 "2004-06-13T18:43:18Z")
Something to watch out for when ordering online – The Jenkins Report. See, cigarettes _themselves_ are pretty much the same price anywhere in the US. It’s the state taxes that make some places much more expensive than others. Now, anybody can sell smokes via the web and ship them out of state. However, unless it’s an Indian Reservation, that company must file a Jenkins Report on a monthly basis listing what they’ve sold and who they’ve sold to. We discovered this when my in-laws got a bill from the State Department of Taxation for the tax money on the cigarettes they bought from out-of-state. :smack: So, now we only buy from Indian Reservation sites (such as the one in my previous post). We’ve been using them for about a year now, with no letters from the state demanding their cut. ---
**Author:** ![nitroglycerine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c5a1d2/32.png) [@nitroglycerine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nitroglycerine)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2004, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smokers-how-much-do-you-pay-for-cigarettes/250043/37 "2004-06-14T00:58:12Z")
> [@erislover](#): > > I pay ~$2 per pack. Find a local cigarette store. Purchase loose tobacco at incredibly low prices. Roll your own. Repeat. 🙂 I hear ya erislover. I smoked Newport for twenty years but for the last two years I’ve been smoking Zig Zag menthol, 7 bucks a can (including 200 papers) that’s at least equal to a carton of smokes, if not more, and I get filters that cost about 70 cents for 100. The Zig Zag is premium stuff, way better than Top or Buglar, and now, on those few occasions that I buy a pack of Newport, they don’t taste nearly as good as the rollies. Even if I could afford to smoke “real” cigarettes, I’d still smoke the Zig Zag. IF6WAS9: I feel for you. Jacks are terrible. Try a pouch of Zig Zag, and if you don’t like it better than Jacks, I’ll reimburse you the $1.09. You’ll cough a lot less. ---
**Author:** ![black\_rabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f19dbf/32.png) [@black\_rabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/black_rabbit)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2004, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smokers-how-much-do-you-pay-for-cigarettes/250043/38 "2004-06-14T02:00:34Z")
I’m in spitting distance of Northern KY. I pay about $24/carton for Camels, including tax. This lady my wife works with always gets these $5 off a carton RJR coupons in the mail, and gives them to me. So occasionally, it’s less than twenty bucks. ---
**Author:** ![Reeder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Reeder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeder)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2004, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smokers-how-much-do-you-pay-for-cigarettes/250043/39 "2004-06-14T03:26:33Z")
$12.76 a carton for Tahoes and that includes tax. At my local tobacco store. And there are cheaper ones. ---
**Author:** ![spizzum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@spizzum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spizzum)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2004, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smokers-how-much-do-you-pay-for-cigarettes/250043/40 "2004-06-14T04:38:58Z")
Prices around here vary quite a bit, but I’d say average about $4-$4.50 for a pack of Marlboros, before sales tax. I can usually find them for around $3.75 on sale, though. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smokers-how-much-do-you-pay-for-cigarettes/250043.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smokers-how-much-do-you-pay-for-cigarettes/250043.md?page=3)