What is the cost of one pack of cigarettes in North America?

Answer 1

North America, which includes Canada and all of the United States, has a relatively large range for the cost of one pack of cigarettes. Individual states and provinces are allowed to tax cigarettes as they please. This is usually called a sin tax, or a tax on behaviors that are not really endorsed by the government (bad for you). In New York City a pack of cigarettes can be nine to eleven dollars or more. In most of the Midwestern states a pack can usually be bought for around five dollars give or take. Canada, which is a more heavily taxed economy than the U.S. in general, has a pretty universal cigarette rate of ten dollars or more (though the Loonie is worth slightly less than the U.S.'s dollar this is still a wide discrepancy). Probably the best deal on cigarettes you will find anywhere in these two countries will be found at Native American reservations. They are exempt from most tobacco sales taxes and some still have cigarettes for sale at roughly eighteen dollars a carton, about a dollar eighty a pack (U.S. currency). This is an unbelievable deal and reminiscent of prices in Mexico. Really worth a long drive to buy a couple of cartons. some math If you smoke one pack a day, at five dollars a pack you will pay about $1825 a year for cigarettes. If you're only spending a dollar eighty it would be about $657 a year. This is a saving of 1168 dollars a year. Which is a nice vacation in the yucatan. Where, as I mentioned before, cigarettes are more affordable. Though they have a habit of tasting like you're smoking a crayon.

Answer 2

It varies state by state some low as $3.00 some states in the Midwest and high of $9.00 in New York city