A pack of cigarettes in NYC is close to $12 per pack and more for loosies ($2.00 per stick)
Outside DeBlasio land a pack is $10.40
You can buy a carton of name brand for $48 in Delaware and $56 in PA.
The margin for cigs is 6% at state minimum. so at 10 per pack they buy them from the wholesalers at $9.35 per. Buy them out of state for half that and the state has hornswaggled the Indians into towing the line and their prices are only a $1.00 less per pack on the reservations.
Wow! I quit smoking cigarettes 10 years ago when they went to around $3.40 a pack here in California. They were just 25¢ a pack when I started smoking in the mid 1960s.
Interesting; many years ago I was in upstate NY when NYC had reached $10 per pack. The Indian reservation outside Niagara Falls NY was selling the same cigs at $22 per carton. They took down your license plate, but we could only buy 2 cartons anyway (since we were going into Ontario the next day, and you could only bring a carton apiece).