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pattysteve

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pattysteve

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Im a smoker and i guess to some that makes me the devil.I buy L&M blue.Yesterday 68B

as normal,today 87B,i ask girl to check she say go up.Thats a 28% increase.

 

Not sure this is correct,maybe a mistake,i guess ill find out tomorrow when i buy from a

different shop.

 

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Im a smoker and i guess to some that makes me the devil.I buy L&M blue.Yesterday 68B

as normal,today 87B,i ask girl to check she say go up.Thats a 28% increase.

 

Not sure this is correct,maybe a mistake,i guess ill find out tomorrow when i buy from a

different shop.

 

Yes they went up recently due to excise tax increases, I read it on Thai visa.

 

That says only 5-10 baht though.

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Im a smoker and i guess to some that makes me the devil.I buy L&M blue.Yesterday 68B

as normal,today 87B,i ask girl to check she say go up.Thats a 28% increase.

 

Not sure this is correct,maybe a mistake,i guess ill find out tomorrow when i buy from a

different shop.

 

 

B 87 still looks good compared to the average price in the UK of around B 500 per pack....... :yikes:

 

Sure am glad i gave them up a long time ago...... :thumbup

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Thanx for the link to Thai visa,there it states a 3% increase in duty,how that can relate to a 28% increase

in price ive no idea.

 

Because shops can charge whatever they think they can get away with...........a bit like Go Go Girls.......... :o

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Thanx for the link to Thai visa,there it states a 3% increase in duty,how that can relate to a 28% increase

in price ive no idea.

Probably on the same basis as in the UK where the Brewers , bars or both, for example, hide their own price hoik, behind a much publicised rise in duty.
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Im a smoker and i guess to some that makes me the devil.I buy L&M blue.Yesterday 68B

as normal,today 87B,i ask girl to check she say go up.Thats a 28% increase.

 

Not sure this is correct,maybe a mistake,i guess ill find out tomorrow when i buy from a

different shop.

My friend was saying last night that his 90-baht pack had gone up to 125 baht.

I don't smoke but was offered Marlboro earlier in the night by a hawker for 400 baht a carton (200-cigs)

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My friend was saying last night that his 90-baht pack had gone up to 125 baht.

I don't smoke but was offered Marlboro earlier in the night by a hawker for 400 baht a carton (200-cigs)

Same name, but not the same tobacco quality.

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Gawd Elpus

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The price of rolling tobacco shot up in King Power at the airport a couple of months ago. I normally have a couple of friends bring a box or two of 5x50 grams back, and gone up by nearly 250 baht a box. Still cheap compared to UK though where just one 50 gram pouch is around £17

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So the smoker is the LDOP ?

 

 

Joe

 

Nope... I still buy my quality ciggies ( not the thai and philippine crap ) for 50 baht / pack... just use your brain instead of the " flow with the row " dumb statement....

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Nope... I still buy my quality ciggies ( not the thai and philippine crap ) for 50 baht / pack... just use your brain instead of the " flow with the row " dumb statement....

It was a question not a statement ,

 

The smoker is a easy target , and I bet most will go with the inflated price ,

can her them now , it's still cheaper than home ,

 

sound familiar ?

 

Joe

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The price of rolling tobacco shot up in King Power at the airport a couple of months ago. I normally have a couple of friends bring a box or two of 5x50 grams back, and gone up by nearly 250 baht a box. Still cheap compared to UK though where just one 50 gram pouch is around £17

How much is it now, I seem to recall paying about 850 baht per box previously, although nearer 1000 last trip?

I used to take my brother 2 boxes every trip and he would use one and sell the other to pay for his beer, I seem to recall each box would cost £80+ in the UK. My sister recently surprised me and asked for rolling tobacco instead of Embassy Regal, it appears she has taken to roiling them in the UK due to the price of regular cigarettes. Has the supply of 'smuggled' ones in the UK dried up these days?

 

I always laugh at the so called duty free price of tobacco (and perfumes for that matter) in UK airport duty free shops, way more than many other places around the world, and some items not cheaper than WH Smiths on the High St.

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Perfumes are items that I was regularly asked to bring out from UK when living there. Every single item (apart from the truly ridiculous priced "Magnum of Chanel 5 etc. :rolleyes: ) was cheaper on the high street, and even in the non-duty free area of the airport (Boots) at times. Abu Dhabi & Dubai sold ciggies at genuine duty free prices when I was a smoker. I used to get 2000 Silk Cut there outbound trips, and specifically pick flights that went via those hubs! :rolleyes:

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Nope... I still buy my quality ciggies ( not the thai and philippine crap ) for 50 baht / pack... just use your brain instead of the " flow with the row " dumb statement....

Are you going to share your secret,with this brainless chump hahaha

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Are you going to share your secret,with this brainless chump hahaha

Not until he has rubbed your noses in the ground a bit more!

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Both my daughter and son in law are smokers. Neither of them are particularly healthy and I think that they use this to some degree to justify the habit. It keeps a lid on weight gain for some people (especially if they are too lazy to exercise) however here is the rub. For the last four years the tax on smokes has gone up ten percent each New Years Day and a pack now costs around 500 baht but they, and presumably most of the serious smokers in Pattaya will still be buying if and when they are 500 or indeed a 1000 baht a pack. This really is another sad side of smoking as so many smokers simply cannot afford them, forgetting about the health issues.

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Has the supply of 'smuggled' ones in the UK dried up these days?

 

I always laugh at the so called duty free price of tobacco (and perfumes for that matter) in UK airport duty free shops, way more than many other places around the world, and some items not cheaper than WH Smiths on the High St.

 

Most if not all of those Euro smuggled ciggies are cheap shitty versions of what you can buy in the UK , but a lot of smokers buy them because they are 50 % cheaper than the ( Real un's ) .

As for the UK duty free shops , they are a piss take , you will pay double for your 200 pack of ciggies than any other worldwide DF shop.......!

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I have a Thai friend who runs a small shop. He told me cigarettes were going to go up in price. I smoke SMS and they were 39 baht a pack. He had told me he thought they would go up to 45 baht. They actually went from 39 baht to 51 baht. I think the government lied about how much the increase would be. The shops are not ripping you off.

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They actually went from 39 baht to 51 baht. I think the government lied about how much the increase would be.

Unlikely, I would have thought, however SMS and the other 'baccy companies are very likely to have put their own price hoik in at the same time.

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Same name, but not the same tobacco quality.

555, sorry but tobacco and quality in the same line is like cancer and inconvenience being equated.

 

No judgement intended but the fact that tobacco is still even allowed to be sold today given its documented carcenogenic impact is remarkable.

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