If you needed yet another reason to quit smoking, here it is.

  • @[email protected]
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    They’re $15 throughout the state. So they’re probably more in the city.

    Reservation cigarettes negate those prices though.

    • @djsp
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      Reservation cigarettes negate those prices though.

      TIL that, on at least some Indian reservations in the United States, cigarettes are sold, sold at a lower price and sold to the general public. I could not find a reference on Wikipedia; all I found was a seemingly unofficial webpage.

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        You don’t have to go to the rez, or be a Native. We used to buy cartons at the Indian smoke shops in Tulsa. $1 pack in the 90s.

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        The reason they’re cheaper is because they don’t need to charge tax on them. Regular cigarettes are the same price, but they have all of the taxes on top of that, which makes them cost three times as much.

        That’s interesting there isn’t anything on wiki about it. It’s not a secret or anything.

        • @djsp
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          The reason they’re cheaper is because they don’t need to charge tax on them.

          I understand. Thank you for confirming it.

          I’ve heard people here in Europe sometimes save on cigarettes in a similar way, by buying them across the border, where taxes are lower, or in duty-free shops at airports, but that’s possibly outdated or even made-up hearsay I’ve never checked.

          That’s interesting there isn’t anything on wiki about it. It’s not a secret or anything.

          There may be something I missed, or it might be such an inconsequential and uncontroversial phenomenon that no one deemed it worth documenting.