CBP seizes massive haul of 150,000 illegal cigarettes from cruise passengers in California

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  1. Concorde

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    GA and MO are about the cheapest states to buy them. Around $9.00 give or take for a pack.

    I remember when I first started buying them they were $0.15 per. Mom would give me 20 cents to go down to the store and get them for her. I got to use the extra 5 cents for a handful of candy..think I was around 6 years old. No one ever asked me for ID :)
     
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  3. Tb0n3

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    What are you 100 years old?
     
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  4. Chinatown

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    In the military cigarettes were $2.00 carton with cigarette ration card. No tax stamp on them either.
    I had a couple of friends that didn't smoke and they'd give me their ration card.
    No tax stamp on these Lucky Strike's.
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  5. Concorde

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    Not quite but I feel like it..
    So I just looked up cigarette prices in the 60’s and the average price was $0.25 so I may have been off a nickel or dime :)
     
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  6. Concorde

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    I was getting Marlboro’s from Peru not too long ago for $6.00 per carton. Unfortunately they use different tobacco leaves and I just couldn’t stand them.
     
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  7. Chinatown

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    One time in Florida I bought some real cheap cigarettes. Horrible! Bought them in a tobacco store. Read the ingredients and they were made from cabbage leaves.
    Bought a couple more packs and used them for people that were constantly bumming cigarettes. Didn't take but one day and no one was asking me for smokes.
     
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  8. mjd4277

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    When Massachusetts increased the cigarette taxes everyone started going up to New Hampshire and buying cartons in DROVES! lol
     
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