Happy New Year smokers! Cheapest Thai cigarettes will be 80 baht a pack from January

 

 

Picture: Daily News

 

Daily News reported that from January the cost of the cheapest cigarettes on the market would be no lower than 80 baht per pack of twenty. 

 

The announcement came on the Government Gazette website on Monday. 

 

Many brands of cigarette cost much more than this in Thailand. 

 

The cost of packs containing less or more cigarettes will be pro-rata. 

 

Source: Daily News

 

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The very thing that keeps me here. Cheap cigarettes. Don't make them too expensive or I'm leaving!

The cheapest packet in Australia would set you back easily 500 baht but more likely closer to 750 baht so Thailand has a long way to go lol

Edited December 18, 20187 yr by whatwasithinking
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Another cash cow will be going to the smugglers luckily with none of my cash????

Might have to do MORE Border Runs to Laos in the Future.......300 Baht a CARTON.....

What is the cheapest,Krong thip? it hardly qualifies as a cigarette you could get the same effect sticking your mouth over a 2 stroke exhaust pipe.

10 minutes ago, marko kok prong said:

What is the cheapest,Krong thip? it hardly qualifies as a cigarette you could get the same effect sticking your mouth over a 2 stroke exhaust pipe.

SMS?

The small L&M cigs are 60 baht now so that would be quite an increase.

Play Off 60 Baht now big jump that

Just the beginning.

55 minutes ago, marko kok prong said:

What is the cheapest,Krong thip? it hardly qualifies as a cigarette you could get the same effect sticking your mouth over a 2 stroke exhaust pipe.

Camel are 60 these days - pretty decent

I was just talking to afriend a day ago about New Year is coming and I was wondering what new sin tax they will come up with. Still 2 weeks left and they can add beer and alcohol to the Happy New Year rise of prices. Nothing like paying more for crap beer. 

Edited December 18, 20187 yr by keithet

Shows how disengaged from reality these news bits are. As pointed out, Playoff and Camel are now 60 baht. One might hope reporter with slightest bit of sense might ask "Is this true?". Nope, easier (and safer?) to just regurgitate government BS.

It’s mind-boggling how people still continue to suck back these cancer sticks voluntarily. 

25 minutes ago, Emdog said:

Shows how disengaged from reality these news bits are. As pointed out, Playoff and Camel are now 60 baht. One might hope reporter with slightest bit of sense might ask "Is this true?". Nope, easier (and safer?) to just regurgitate government BS.

I think maybe you're misunderstanding the article - the price is going to rise so that the cheapest available cigarettes are 80 baht. The "Happy New Year" bit is sarcasm.

Edited December 18, 20187 yr by rwdrwdrwd

4 hours ago, whatwasithinking said:

The cheapest packet in Australia would set you back easily 500 baht but more likely closer to 750 baht so Thailand has a long way to go lol

When Thailand has free health care and an hourly minimum wage of 400 baht maybe they'll be able to charge Australian prices. Not much of a comparison lol

They should make them 580 baht.

I expect the Government is raising the tax in the hope that many will go over to vaping when the tobacco monopoly roll them out in the near future.........( cynical alert on )

3 hours ago, Emdog said:

Shows how disengaged from reality these news bits are. As pointed out, Playoff and Camel are now 60 baht. One might hope reporter with slightest bit of sense might ask "Is this true?". Nope, easier (and safer?) to just regurgitate government BS.

Perhaps you need to re-examine your version of reality, as the article states this will be the case from JANUARY. The price of a given brand NOW in December does not invalidate the writer.
Come back in a month. ????

. 

3 hours ago, Emdog said:

Shows how disengaged from reality these news bits are. As pointed out, Playoff and Camel are now 60 baht. One might hope reporter with slightest bit of sense might ask "Is this true?". Nope, easier (and safer?) to just regurgitate government BS

 

They are all going up to 80. Was that not clear? 

As far as I am concerned make the cost at least 100 baht or more per packet - disgusting habit!

7 hours ago, whatwasithinking said:

The cheapest packet in Australia would set you back easily 500 baht but more likely closer to 750 baht so Thailand has a long way to go lol

I was thinking the same with regard to the price in the US.
Much more than that before I gave them up eight years ago, by which time I was mostly rolling my own.

2 hours ago, BTB1977 said:

They should make them 580 baht.

The peasants would revolt!

6 hours ago, Nong Khai Man said:

Might have to do MORE Border Runs to Laos in the Future.......300 Baht a CARTON.....

400 on the market....

you can get a kilo of chop chop and a rolling machine for 300 bht

6 hours ago, Vacuum said:

SMS?

SMS.....Are the most horrible cigarettes ever.... 

34 minutes ago, heybuz said:

you can get a kilo of chop chop and a rolling machine for 300 bht

On the market is also a lady who rolls them from homegrown tobacco. Soon she'll have a rolling machine i bet.

1 hour ago, Burma Bill said:

As far as I am concerned make the cost at least 100 baht or more per packet - disgusting habit!

Ok we will all quit for you then....

2 minutes ago, Youlike said:

On the market is also a lady who rolls them from homegrown tobacco. Soon she'll have a rolling machine i bet.

Which market?

7 hours ago, madmen said:

Just the beginning.

Yes, I agree. Prices going nuts for many things.  Petrol cycles from 125 to 165 a litre and back in weeks in Oz. why? Because it can. A plastic bag still can be got for 15 cents. So now you get to pollute but you pay for it. Before it was free to pollute.

If the smokers were smart they would band together and refuse to pay the 30% increase. Unless of course their salaries are increased accordingly. But I get that ciggies have got most by the nuts.

Speaking of nuts. Almonds, expensive too. Lower the profit margin and sell more i say.