How Thailand kept cigarettes cheap despite a tax hike

[mki8]

want to try these cheaper smokes

does anyone know the brand names?

LINE 7.1

[lostinisaan]

The tax hike was not 3%. The proposal I believe was a 10% take hike which in turn ended up becoming somewhere around 19%.

Very True, it's got to be biggest 3% ever, Marlboro went from 95B to 125B which is nearly 30%.

But you're buying a myth with it. The Marlboro Cowboy comes with it for free. ( Inducing certain types of cancer)

I stay with my red SMS. (51 baht) Save my Soul.

[Litlos]

I don't get why people are acting surprised Thailand has its own manufacturing of cigarettes, it's been done the government owned Thailand Tobacco Monopoly located near Queen Sirikit convention center for ages. Anyone who has ever gotten of the tollway between Rama 4 and Sukhumvit has driven right by it.

Don't know if you still can but at one time you could use it as a short cut to the far end of Soi 4.

Only after 3PM. Used it on the 2nd of June.

Cheers

[Tomtomtom69]

It is illegal to bring/ smoke ciggies in Brunei.Usually smuggled in or through diplomat friends one can get them.Last 4 weeks no luck..no smoke which is good apart from the withdrawal symptoms one has to endure in the first few days

Really? So that's at least the second country where tobacco is illegal. Bhutan is the one I already knew - strangely though, virtually all the Bhutanese I've ever met (all of them in the USA) were smokers, maybe because they weren't allowed to smoke in Bhutan?