Golden Virginia

[hocuspocus]

I need to buy some duty free Golden Virginia tobacco when I travel back to the UK, can anyone give me some advice as to where is the best place to buy in Thailand.

The last time I bought some at Suvarnabhumi airport I believe it was fake as it was very poor quality. Thanks in advance.

[daveAustin]

I was just about to say the airport. Didn't notice it was duff last time, though am not a smoker per se and thus no expert. Perhaps it was a bit older and drier... If you were in Chiang Mai, I know of a few places there. Wherever you are, keep an eye out for the half-decent looking off-licences.

[mesquite]

Is this what you're looking for?

[rgs2001uk]

Foodland Suk soi 5 Bkk.

If you told us where you are in Thailand it might help.

Right next to Mikes in Pattaya is a shopping mall on the RH side as you enter called Modern City, does GV.

[hocuspocus]

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Foodland Suk soi 5 Bkk.

If you told us where you are in Thailand it might help.

Right next to Mikes in Pattaya is a shopping mall on the RH side as you enter called Modern City, does GV.

Sorry about that I am in Chiang Mai

[JohnC]

What is the price difference between buying it in town against duty free at airport? I am going back to UK in May via Charles de Gaulle and aim to buy it there as there is no limit. I checked Customs website and they state as long as I have the receipt from CDG there is no problem I'm just interested in the price differences.

[daveAustin]

One 250g pack in town would be 300-400 baht. Five-pack in airport is 700 baht last time I looked.

Op, do a search in the CM forum as it's been mentioned many times where the best place to buy GV is... such as Charoenrat Rd.

/ it is also likely that the stuff you had at the airport is the same source that is sold elsewhere here.//

Edited February 13, 2015 by daveAustin

[daveAustin]

Is this what you're looking for?

As does drinking, driving, drink driving, walking across the road, getting blown up by terrorists, crashing planes, women, name your poison. Let people do what they want and die how they want, I say.

[DaddyWarbucks]

Is this what you're looking for?

As does drinking, driving, drink driving, walking across the road, getting blown up by terrorists, crashing planes, women, name your poison. Let people do what they want and die how they want, I say.

Agreed.

Don't tell me what's bad for me - leave me and my ingrained bad habits alone.

[nisakiman]

And in fact, the bald statement "SMOKING KILLS" is BS. It doesn't. Living kills, every time. Not smoking.

Did you know that the majority of people who live to 90 - 100 years old were smokers?

Scientists at the Albert Einstein College in New York were recently studying the factors in the lives of 90 year olds that may have affected their longevity. These researchers discovered that 70% of the men over the age of 90 smoked. In the same age group, 30% of the women still smoked. In other words, roughly 50% of the people in the study were still using tobacco products.

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So smoking self-evidently doesn't kill.

So, like most things you read about smoking, what is written on the pack 'warning label' (and that applies to all the various permutations) is just a barefaced lie. Propaganda with no basis in reality. Most of the medico-porn is photoshopped, and many of the 'models' weren't even smokers. The so-called 'smoker's black lung' is a myth, as it is impossible to differentiate between the lungs from smokers and non-smokers, even for a pathologist performing an autopsy. The anti-tobacco fanatics simply don't like smoking, and they will lie and exaggerate to try to stop people from doing it. They don't care how they do it - to them the end justifies the means, and if the global hospitality industry (and all those who worked in it) has to be sacrificed on the alter of self-rightious prohibitionism, then tough. Sacrificed it will be. It was never about health; it was always about destroying the whole social culture of smoking.

Edited February 15, 2015 by nisakiman

[mesquite]

And in fact, the bald statement "SMOKING KILLS" is BS. It doesn't. Living kills, every time. Not smoking.

Did you know that the majority of people who live to 90 - 100 years old were smokers?

Scientists at the Albert Einstein College in New York were recently studying the factors in the lives of 90 year olds that may have affected their longevity. These researchers discovered that 70% of the men over the age of 90 smoked. In the same age group, 30% of the women still smoked. In other words, roughly 50% of the people in the study were still using tobacco products.

.................................................................

So smoking self-evidently doesn't kill.

So, like most things you read about smoking, what is written on the pack 'warning label' (and that applies to all the various permutations) is just a barefaced lie. Propaganda with no basis in reality. Most of the medico-porn is photoshopped, and many of the 'models' weren't even smokers. The so-called 'smoker's black lung' is a myth, as it is impossible to differentiate between the lungs from smokers and non-smokers, even for a pathologist performing an autopsy. The anti-tobacco fanatics simply don't like smoking, and they will lie and exaggerate to try to stop people from doing it. They don't care how they do it - to them the end justifies the means, and if the global hospitality industry (and all those who worked in it) has to be sacrificed on the alter of self-rightious prohibitionism, then tough. Sacrificed it will be. It was never about health; it was always about destroying the whole social culture of smoking.

Like the cigarette ads in the fifties said, "It's good for you!"