Quote from: SR_Seller_Accounts on May 11, 2012, 05:16 amQuote from: nameless2 on April 14, 2012, 11:20 pmHow is the price possible? Without taxes? Stolen?This can't be legal.The actual manufacturing cost of cigarettes are very low. You can buy 5 pound bags of BETTER tobacco for $45 retail. Just think how much LESS the manufacturers pay if they buy millions of TONS at a time.The majority of the costs are import, federal, state, and in some cases local taxes.Buying raw materials at retail prices, I can make a carton of cigs for around $5 a carton.If you are a smoker, you'll be irked to know that manufacturing a carton of ciggies costs less than $0.01, or perhaps $0.12 in a highly regulated developed country, but seriously pissed off that the real price in a shop would be less than a dollar. A carton should cost about the same as a Mars Bar. So you guys are getting taxed, levied, excised, whatever you want to call it, at about several hundred or even thousand percent.Hence this thread!