duty free

[penny3333]

Sometimes they let you bring them back when you purchase them, sometimes they will hold them until the last day. I don't know what rules make it different from ship to ship or cruise line to cruise line. Anyway, you can purchase 2 cartons for $44, 5 cartons for $108. You can bring 1 carton per person back duty free.

As Dave said, you can buy cigarettes by the pack in the bar, but it is a very limited selection. You can purchase cigarettes in ports and bring them back with you. So far, they have not confiscated cartons I have bought on shore. I opened the carton and took out a few packs, just in case, but they let me keep my carton.

[Dwayne]

Warning! Be wary of buying Marlboros on Cozumel! I bought a carton several years ago and they tasted awful. I thought I was smoking Basic or Dorals.

Dwayne

[Sonny V]

Originally posted by IslandCruz:
Warning! Be wary of buying Marlboros on Cozumel! I bought a carton several years ago and they tasted awful. I thought I was smoking Basic or Dorals.

Dwayne

Maybe it was a sign from above to quick that nasty habit before it Kills you.


Sonny

[Dwayne]

I'm going to have to quit anyway because I can't afford them. They passed a 50 cent per pack state sales tax recently. Our Governor came up from Argentina and vetoed it, but they out voted him. We had the cheapest cigarettes in the country with a state tax of only 7 cents. I'm not paying $41.49 per carton.

Dwayne

[Dave]

Some of us remember when we'd get a little pack of cigarettes in our c-rations package. I think it had 4 cigarettes in it.

[penny3333]

Dwayne, I still remember being able to buy cigarettes in the Carolinas for $1.99/carton. Y'all are still less expensive than here. It's $44/carton now with the "sin" tax on them.

[Dwayne]

Before they added the federal tax last year Marlboros were only $28 at Murphy's. They had to put a limit on carton purchases back then because folks from New York and other places where loading up while here. Marlboro has been on the slack side with sending coupons lately. I hate the new self extinguishing paper they are using now.

Dwayne

[Sonny V]

I remember buying a carton of Lucky Strikes aboard a ship in Viet Nam for $110. When I quit smoking cigarettes were 50 cents a pack in a machine.

Sonny

[Dave]

I remember buying a carton of Lucky Strikes aboard a ship in Viet Nam for $110.

That would be $690 when adjusted for 2010 dollars!

[weejack 20]

here in glasgow scotland they cost £6.20 per pack of 20 ciggies that,s $8.91 i think ,& we are allowed to bring 3200 per person into the uk which is great if your not flying home to scotland from southampton england excess baggage is very expensive method in the madness i think but will it stop me no lol