Price of cigarettes in Poland?

the prices are definitely to high

You can buy blow-up tobacco (20g) for 8.50zł or a Route 66 (I think) sack of 100g for 50zł. The cheapest tobacco I think is Blow up / Paramount. (8.50 - 9.50 / 20g). Seems bizarre though, the Polish don't seem to smoke it. Thus far I have never seen a single person rolling a [legal] cigarette. The reason it's odd is that a 20g pouch used conservatively can provide 60-80 roll-up's. When people are smoking a pack of Marlboro / Spike a day at 11zł a pack, it's not economical - especially for the Poles.

can anyone help me with a price for 200 l&b or malboro lights or b&h in krakow please

You aren't going to find B&H or L&B in Krakow. A carton of Marlboro lights will be about 120zl.

thanks for you help harry. I've been told if you look you can find L&B in krakow. Would L&M be the same price as malboro?

my brother and his girlfriend only smoke their roll-your-owns - and there is already a black market in tobacco cut for that purpose with ridiculously low prices (compared to cigs but also to the usuall roll-your-own tobacco brands)

L&B in some shops. The ones in the tourist areas know Brits want a carton an price them accordingly. Tesco is your best bet. L & M ( ask for them as 'ellemy') are cheaper than Marlboro and sold everywhere.

I wonder why people don't smoke the locally grown stuff. it must be dirt cheap, although probably vile.

Jonny do you have any idea on the price of L&B in any shops you mentioned?

thanks

Should be about 22 quid for 200. Max 24, no lower than 20. Unless there's been a tax rise since I bought any - though that would only be a couple of quid at the most. Tesco or Carrefour would be the best bet, or keep looking at what's on display in the windows of kiosks.


B&H, L&M, L&B Regal, etc that are sold in the UK are all made with part or all Polish tobacco ever since Poland joined the EU. Marlboro too, and the Marlboro sold in Poland have been for ages.

Some of the local brands are good. Caro light has a reputation for being an old codgers' brand, but the tobacco blend is exactly the same as Marlboro Red. Cheaper for the Philip Morris factory to fill the tubes with the same stuff and do it on the same production line than make a different formula. Fajrant was Poland's best-selling for a long time. Cheaper than Marlboro but better tobacco from the same factory.

thanks for the help jonny much appreciated

WAtch this video:

This was on a trip home from Poland after puchasing in Gdansk. Turn up your volume and see how pathetic the UKBA are

youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=riVUwt9GOPQ#

I am planning to bring 3000 cigarettes home in my hand luggage. Will i encounter problems when leaving poland as my bag goes through an xray or is this not the polish authorities concern.

The Poles couldn't care less.

Check it in rather than carry it. 3000 cigs in a piece of hand luggage of the permitted size is a bit of a squeeze anyway.


It isn't, but there's a tiny chance they'd tip off the authorities in the UK. But probably couldn't care less.

thanks. I don't want to check i was just curious to see if they would stop me at polish side. Thanks for the advice

i doubt you will have a problem. i came back from poland last august with 3200 cigarettes. you are allowed to bring back 16 cartons(i checked first). couldnt fit them all in hand luggage though, even though my hand luggage was ever so slightly oversized...customs dont seem to be overly worried about size of hand luggage either unless you are blatantly taking the p**s

Does anyone know if they sell pall mall in poland and how much they cost roughly? Might fly over for a day trip and stock up :D

In every cig shop.


About 2.50 EUR

brilliant.... thanks a million :D

I'm going to Poland on the 4th of March and I don't know what should I do.
Buying cigaretts here, in Hungary, where cost them in avarage 650 HUF (it is around 2,20€)

Or rather should I buy there?

Thx for the reply!!! :)

the prices are very similar then

btw quit smoking you will be able to save a lot of money

No sh*t, sherlock. Easier said then done, unfortunately. They are a curse.

Try Champix (chantix in the US). They worked for me.

there are Tabex tablets in Poland which contain citisine as an active ingredient - the stuff blocks nicontine receptors on the synapses for a long time nullifying the nicotine craving - but you can't take them forever it's three weeks up to a month IIRC then you have to rely on your strong will - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cytisine (you can repeat a cytisine (Tabex) cycle after some time from the end of the previous cycle (like a month)

champix contains varenicline which is a derivation of cytisine and it looks like it is better (you can take it for a longer periods which significantly helps quitting)

just keep thinking why the hell would anybody want to inhale cancer triggering smoke into their lungs and then breath it out again, have you ever heard of anything so rediculous, its just pure madness.

allencarrseasyway.co.uk

And this is what happens to those very lungs. After only a few years.

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  Left: healthy lung, Right: smoker's lung
  

OK, so I'm a disgusting smoker, but it's not quite as simple as that. A doctor pal of mine told me that when he was a student at the Middlesex hospital in London the anatomy prof. showed students two lungs: one from a life-long non-smoker who lived on the Commercial Road in east London, and one from a country-dwelling moderate smoker. The former was in a much worse state than the latter.

Still, it's better to give up if you can; more money for booze.

I can believe that. There used to be an air pollution monitor, showing the levels of all sorts of nasty things, on the wall of DH Smyk in Warsaw. They took it down about 7 or 8 years ago because the readings for most pollutants were usually off the top of the scale.

But still, not smoking after years of it does feel great. If it wasn't for the effect on the waistline, that is.

Ohh yeah typical smoker crap trying to convince yourself that its OK, we all used to do that, any plausible excuse just to carry on. We all know somebody that was fit as a fiddle, jogging everyday but just kicked the bucket all of a sudden but then fag ash Lill who puffs 60 a day but still going strong at 85.

This is a great extract from Allen Carrs book 'The easy Way to Stop Smoking'.


Smoking warps the mind.