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freetobegay Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-20-04 09:11 AM
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What a ripoff!!!
This site says buy cigarettes tax free online. The price for Marlboro's $27.25. I can buy them at my local store for $22.99

People fall for this?


http://www.totalsmokes.com/Cigarettes_Online/Premium/Marlboro.html
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La Lioness Priyanka Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-20-04 09:12 AM
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1. where do you live?
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freetobegay Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-20-04 09:13 AM
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2. S.W. Florida
eom
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Commendatori Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-20-04 09:14 AM
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3. Probably in Virginia,
which is where I live. If he lived in New York City, those $27 Marlboros would look like a gift from the heavens.
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Commendatori Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-20-04 09:14 AM
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4. I stand corrected (n/t)
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LynneSin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-20-04 09:14 AM
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5. Obviously you don't live in New York City
Smoking is very expensive in that city along with other major cities and urban areas. Delaware's reputation for cheap booze is now expanding to cheap cigerettes. I'll see out-of-state cars at my local mini-market (which is near the Delaware Memorial Bridge) buying cigerettes galore
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La Lioness Priyanka Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-20-04 09:15 AM
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6. exactly!
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freetobegay Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-20-04 09:16 AM
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7. Do you by chance know what they do cost in NY?
Just curious.
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Commendatori Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-20-04 09:41 AM
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12. In NYC? About $80 a carton.
I just saw smokes being sold for that price at a Duane Reed store next to the Port Authority.
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TreasonousBastard Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-20-04 09:36 AM
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8. 24 bucks a carton...
and the $4 off coupons make it an even better deal at the tobacco stores. Definitely makes it worth the tolls when a carton in NJ is 45 bucks.

Pennsylvania is almost as good, and has the same tobacco stores off the interstates just over the Delaware River.

Noname brands for as little as $15 a carton (and worth every penny of it)

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Madrone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-20-04 09:38 AM
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10. Try WA state! Around $50/carton here!

Over $5/pack.....
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TreasonousBastard Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-20-04 09:38 AM
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9. People who live in states...
where it's almost 50 bucks a carton.

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redqueen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-20-04 09:41 AM
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11. Heavens, what a racket!
As more people quit, the price will probably keep climbing.

All I can think looking at those prices and thinking of the stench is - why?!!!!
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gpandas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-20-04 10:19 AM
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13. why smoke at all nt
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commander bunnypants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-20-04 10:47 AM
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14. yep
but I get camels for 18 bucks in VA


DDQM
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