American
cigarette manufacturers increased advertising budgets by 85% since 1998
November throwing away the legal settlement with the states to curtail
their marketing expenditure. The saga doesn't end just there; investigation reports reveal how inter-company feuds rage into wars decrying smokers of competitor brands as cowards and slobs so that they can push their brands harder.
Many cheap cigarettes
manufacturers and exporters have their allegiance to the same
manufacturers that can't watch their sales dwindling due to tax hikes
and opened shops elsewhere in eastern European countries to take
advantage of prevailing economic SOPs.
Buying cheap Marlboro cigarettes online or any discount cigarettes ordered over the internet may be
legal and ethical as long as social responsibilities aren't breached.
The only objectionable point here is silence of the importing governments and the practice of duality of taxation vis-a-vis locally manufactured cigarettes.
While it may not be interesting to see why major brands like
Marlboro, Camel, Winston, Virginia Slims, Salem, Menthol, and lm etc are
selling as cheap discount cigarettes but how they are able to keep
their businesses high flying. All kinds of marketing tricks, clandestine
methods are resorted to in the name of marketing. A research report by
Tobacco Control Research Program sponsored by Harvard School of Public
Health reveals the substantial increase in nicotine content in major
brands. Methods they devise to circumvent authorities and competitors in
order to retain customer loyalty are particularly appalling.
Buying cheap cigarettes online
may help save a few dollars on every carton purchased but the onus is
on you to make sure that discount prices don't make you pay heavily
later. Not that cigarettes bought at a sale can be more harmful by way
of being manufactured by resorting to shortcuts but the manipulations
they are able to make within the ambit of legalities. Buy any of the
brands like Marlboro, Camel, Winston, Virginia Slims, Salem, Menthol,
and lm etc but make sure of the source.
Are you paying over $5 / pack of cigarettes? I buy my cigs at Duty Free Depot and this saves me over 50% on cigarettes.
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