New Rise in Cigarette Prices in 2014

EU wants 8.1% rise in cigarette prices by 2014. 

Maltese smokers will have to fork out more money to keep puffing in the next few years as the European Commission laid out new plans aimed at narrowing the difference in price levels of tobacco products in the 27 member states while cutting tobacco consumption.

According to computations made by the EU, the price of a packet of standard cigarettes in Malta will have to increase by 8.1% by 2014 in order to conform to the new rules on minimum taxation of tobacco products. At the same time, Brussels said that the increase in price in Malta should contribute to a reduction of 3.5 per cent in demand. The new proposed directive will need the green light of all the 27 EU member states in order to enter into force.

Smokers in the new EU member states are likely to be the most affected as taxes on cigarettes in these countries are still considered to be very low when compared to the EU average. Malta is however an exception as retail prices are already close to the average price in the EU. Currently, 60.82% of the price of a packet of cigarettes goes to the Exchequer in excise duty and VAT. Still, the EU say this is not enough.

According to the EU, its proposal, part of a four-year review of tobacco duties, would reduce smuggling.

The Commission's primary tool would be to increase the minimum tax that member states impose on cigarettes.

At present, this minimum has two elements: the tax levied as a percentage of a packet's price, which must translate into a minimum price per 1,000 cigarettes. As a percentage, tax would have to rise from 57 per cent to 63 per cent by 2014 or from €64 per 1,000 cigarettes in the most popular price category to €90 for all categories.

Duties on loose-leaf tobacco would also be hiked to bring them more closely into line with those imposed on cigarettes.

A second element in the EU's plan is to tighten definitions of tobacco products because, during the past years, manufacturers have been able to re-classify products in order to quality for lower taxes.

Although through this new directive Maltese smokers would be badly hit, the impact on fellow smokers in some of the other new member states would be dramatic. According to EU calculations, while in countries like Denmark or Finland the price increase will be of about six per cent, in countries like Poland it will rise by 46 per cent.

Statistics show that in the five-year period between 2002 and 2006, excise duties in the EU rose by 33 per cent on average and cigarette consumption dropped 10 per cent.

L&M Cigarettes Red and Blue, Preferred by Many Smokers

L&M Cigarettes were created by the company Liggett & Myers in 1953. These represent a brand of cigarettes produced by Altria Group, Inc. (previously known as Philip Morris Companies, Inc.). 

"L&M" is perhaps the earliest brand to have a filter that was not a sided filter. When the "L&M" brand was launched, their motto was "American cigarettes of the highest quality with the best filter." 

When their success in the American market was solidified, Liggett Group made a proposal to take the "L&M" international. The brand is popular in Latin America, central and northern Europe, the Arab World and the far east and south Asia. They were not very common in the continental US until a new roll out made them available in October 2007. According to the information of the independent agency of field investigation "Business Analytics", the second quarter of 2007, Phillip Morris brands took the first place in 25 Russian cities with a market share of 29.92%.

During the press conference, it was reported that "L&M" takes third place in the world by sales volume. Also, the "L&M" brand second place among other cigarette brands produced by Phillip Morris International. 

Due to new labeling regulations in Europe banning the use of the word 'lights' names of some cigarette brands have been changed, i.e. L&M Lights are now L&M Blue Label. The same happened in 2010 in the U.S. when the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) banned flavor descriptors such as "mild," "light" and "ultra light" even though the color designations were already changed like in Europe.

L&M cigarettes, the dominant cigarette brand of Ligget & Myers tobacco company, are one of the most popular cigarettes in the world today, especially among young smokers. The smooth taste and the delicate flavor of L&M cigarettes along with their low price range made L&M even more popular over the last decade.

Each Carton contains 10 packs x 20 Cigarettes

1 carton contains 200 cigarettes Made in: (Central Europe)

Buy Wont Cheap Cigarettes: Pleasant and Pronounced Flavor, Firm Balanced Taste

Wont Cigarettes are one of the products resulted from the great colaboration of the J.C. “Tututn-CTC” with Swedish Specialized Company “P. Lehmann Consulting” in  2009-2011.  

This new cigarette brand appears on the market in 3 flavors and varieties: 

Wont 0.8 or Wont Red ; 

Wont 0.6 - Wont Blue, 

and Wont 0.4 or Wont Silver.

All these were specially designed for different consumers that prefer low cost/ priced cigarettes. 

The use of modern technologies, qualitative raw material, components and ingredients from various  parts of the world while manufacturing Wont Cigarettes allow this product to be close to European norms regarding the safety standards and the content of noxious substances in the smoke, giving a pleasant and pronounced flavor and a firm balanced taste to Wont Cigarettes. 

Wont belongs to the most wide-spread and popular cigarettes category of American Blend type with  a length size of  84mm-King Size. The constructive features of this cigarette brand are the Mono-Acetate Aerated Filter and the High Level of Burning with an Enhanced Air Permeability. 

A wide range of the taste hardness is ensured by all the above mentioned caracteristics as well as due to the level of harmful substances found in the smoke for each modification of the cigarettes WONT 0,8; WONT 0,6; and WONT 0,4.

The content of harmful substances, mg/cigarette:

Nicotine/ Tar/ Carbon Monoxide (CO)

WONT 0,8 / 0,8 / 10 / 12

WONT 0,6 / 0,6 / 8 / 9

WONT 0,4 / 0,4 / 4 / 5

On our website 20 cigarettes are packed in 1 pack like Round Corner Pockets. The cigarette packs are wrapped in polypropylenic thermofocused film. 

For more details, concerning the payment or shipping methods or any other questions you have, please, do not hesitate to contact our Online Website Operators/ Live Chat. They will be glad to provide you all the necessary and useful details you need. 

Classic are the Cheapest and the Best Sold Cigarettes Online

Our Tobacco Store offers you the possibility to buy online a wide variety of cigarette brands, starting with Marlboro, Camel, Winston and going to the cheapest available brands as: Wont, Bond, etc. and do not forget about CLASSIC CIGARETTES!!!

"Classic" certainly, means not only highest tobacco quality, but recognized by high value of its position in a world of smoking, belonging to the first class of cigarettes. 

Classic cigarettes are made by famous in Europe Ukraine Tobacco Company Reemtsma - Kiev Tobacco Factory. 

These cigarettes have a memorable tobacco taste and smoking aroma. Classic cigarettes are the expression of the best quality and exceptionality.

In the production of Classic cigarettes Reemtsma tobacco producers had used the most modern technologies of smoking, in order to make the meaning of this brand to confirm and sustain the qualities that express this word.

Classic cigarettes can be met at the lowest price in our online cheap cigarette store and presented in the following varieties: Classic Blue, Classic Imperial Slims Blue, Classic Red, Classic Silver, Classic Slims Silver.  

Buy Classic Cigarettes on this web site - one of the largest online cigarette retailers! The Classic we sell, namely Classic Blue and Classic Red cigarettes and Classic Silver cigarettes box, as well as the other cigarette brands, - are made in Europe, and correspond to EC specification and quality, unless otherwise is stated. All the cigarettes, including Classic, are available directly from our European warehouse for immediate dispatch.

What would you answer if you were asked of what can be classic: books, cars, movies and cigarettes of course!

This filter cigarette brand is manufactured in Europe, Ukraine under control of “Reemtsma - Kiev Tobacco Factory” and its very popular in CIS countries for its full flavored tobacco and moderate price.

Though Classic is not familiar to Europe and the USA it is highly competitive with other well known cigarette brands. 

Due to modern technologies and new way of tobacco treatment these cigarettes provide smooth taste and real pleasure from smoking.

Now you can buy your Cigarettes in a new Tobacco Store

Winston, Wont, Camel, Marlboro- buy any cigarette brands you want in our Tobacco Store

Quitting Smoking: Is it Hard?

Most people find it hard to quit smoking. Quitting can be hard, but it’s not impossible. Counseling, medications, and other supports can help you quit. 

If you’ve tried quitting smoking before but couldn’t do it, try again. Each time you try, it will get easier. You will be one step closer to quitting for good. Now is the best time to quit. It’s never too late.

How should you quit smoking?

1. Pick a quit day

Choose a date within the next two weeks to quit. Don't wait for the "perfect" day – just pick a date and work with it. Put it in your calendar.

If you'd like:

• List your reasons for quitting - health, family, money.
• Write down some new hobbies you can do instead of smoking – exercise, knitting, making model airplanes- something to keep your hands and mind busy. 
• Speak with friends, family, and colleagues and ask for support. Tell them about your plan to quit, so it feels more real to you.
• Start making the changes to push smoking out of your everyday life - stop smoking in the house and in the car. Make your house and car smoke-free, so no one is allowed to smoke inside.
• Learn about nicotine withdrawal symptoms and how to cope with them.

2. Choose two or more proven quit-smoking methods

There are many proven ways to quit smoking. To boost your chances of quitting, choose more than one method. Pick what seems right for you. Each person is different. You'll know what will work best for you.

Proven quit smoking methods:

Join a support group for people trying to quit. Research shows that people in quit-smoking support groups are more likely to quit for good. (Find out about quit smoking support groups in your area).

Get individual counseling in person or by phone. You can get counseling in person or over the phone, through a free smoker’s quitline. Both are proven to help people quit. There are free quitlines across 

Take nicotine replacement therapy (NRT). The nicotine patch, gum, lozenge or inhaler replaces some of the nicotine you usually get from cigarettes. This can make nicotine withdrawal easier to manage.

Ask your doctor about a prescription medicine called bupropion. It’s an antidepressant that can make it easier to quit. It can take away some of your craving to smoke, and make smoking less enjoyable.

If you slip up, don’t give up. Try again, and again... keep trying until you've quit for good.

Ask for support from your family and friends.

Going “cold turkey” – quitting spontaneously, on your own - also works well for some people. Some people just decide to quit smoking one day - maybe it’s the day they find out they have a lung disease, or the day their grandchild is born. Maybe there is something else that motivates them. Many people who have quit smoking for good say they quit “cold turkey”. If you think going cold turkey could work for you, try it.

3. On your quit date, butt out completely.

1. Don’t smoke, not even a little.
2. Toss out your cigarettes, other tobacco, and ashtrays.
3. Avoid people and situations where you will be tempted to smoke. If you usually smoke in a certain chair, don’t sit in that chair. If you usually smoke at a nightclub, avoid that nightclub for a while. Change your usual routine, so your new routine doesn’t include smoking.
4. Go for a walk instead of a smoke.
5. Be positive. Believe in yourself and your plan.
6. Remember that nicotine withdrawal symptoms only last a short time. Follow these tips to cope with withdrawal symptoms.
7. Get help from support groups, counselors and your local quitline
8. Take it one day at a time. Remind yourself that once the withdrawal is over, you’ll feel better than you have in years. You deserve to feel better…. You’re almost there!

Gauloises Cigarettes the best preferred ones by French and English smokers

Gauloises Cigarettes (pronounced: [ɡo.lwaz]) is a brand of cigarette of French manufacture. It is produced by the company Imperial Tobacco following their acquisition of Altadis in January 2008.

Cigarette

Traditional Gauloises were short, wide, unfiltered and made with dark tobaccos from Syria and Turkey which produced a strong and distinctive aroma.

Gauloises Brand History

Gauloises cigarettes first appeared in 1910. The brand is most famous for its cigarettes' strength, especially in its original unfiltered version. Forty years later, filtered Gauloises cigarettes debuted. In 1984, the Gauloises brand was expanded to included a light American-type tobacco with a filter, known as Gauloises Blondes. Gauloises cigarettes with lower tar are also available and are sold in red, in golden/white and in green packets. The traditional, strong filterless Gauloises cigarettes remain commercially available as Gauloises Caporal.

Between the World Wars the smoking of Gauloises in France was considered patriotic and an affiliation with French "heartland" values. The brand was associated with the cigarette-smoking poilu (a slang term for the French infantryman in the trenches) and the resistance fighters during the Vichy Regime. Their slogan was "Liberté toujours" (Freedom forever).

The brand was also linked to high-status and inspirational figures representing the worlds of art (e.g. Pablo Picasso) and the intellectual elite (e.g. Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus and Jean Baudrillard) and in popular music, for example American singer Jim Morrison.

American artist Robert Motherwell used Gauloises packets and cartons in many collages, including an extensive series with the packets surrounded by bright red acrylic paint, often with incised lines in the painted areas. Motherwell himself did not smoke the brand, but got the packets and cartons from a neighbor who did. 

Smoking Gauloises was also promoted as a contribution to the national good: a portion of the profits from their sale was paid to the Régie Française des Tabacs, a semi-governmental corporation charged with controlling the use of tobacco, especially by minors, and directing its profits towards socially beneficial causes. The designers of the traditional Gauloises packet reinforced national identity by selecting a peculiarly French shade of blue (like the blues later used in the work of French artist Yves Klein).

Cigarettes Plain packaging makes cigarettes taste worse in Australia

To fight the growing menace of tobacco, the government of Australia was working on the policy of plain packaging. The government is of the opinion that as cigarettes and tobacco are considered a part of glamorous lifestyle, therefore plain packaging will discourage people to buy them.

It is for the first time when a government of a country has taken such a stern step in controlling the sale of tobacco in its country. It has come to light that the colorful packets of cigarettes will be replaced by dull, dark olive packs carrying health warnings. Moreover, the package won’t be carrying any logo but will be carrying brands name in miniature letters.

On August 15 the Australian High Court decreed that the federal government is granted a right to demand that cigarettes are sold in plain packaging beginning with December, according to a local media.

In fact plain packaging is packaging created under the authority of the government to be as unappealing as possible. The larger half of plain packaging consists of graphic health warnings and a standardized olive color at a little background. There are no logos, but name of brand is presented only in a small, standardized font.

Australia's new plain packaging for cigarettes – which becomes mandatory from Saturday - have been branded "disgusting" by smokers who say they make the cigarettes taste worse. 

The new packets, which are blank aside from gruesome health warnings, have been filling shelves for the past two months as part of the toughest anti-tobacco measures in the world.

Despite legal battles and claims of "dirty tricks" by tobacco companies, all cigarettes in Australia must now be sold in drab olive packets featuring macabre images of sick babies, dying cancer sufferers and diseased feet, eyeballs and lungs. Smokers' advice groups have reported being inundated with calls from angry smokers who say their cigarettes now taste "pathetic" and "sickening".

Joe Xia, who owns a busy convenience store just outside Sydney's Chinatown, said the packets are "disgusting" and have been annoying customers who dislike the new warnings.

"People still smoke – now they also complain," he told the Daily Telegraph.

"Nothing will stop them from smoking. But it is hard at night-time. People come from the pub and they see these packets and they get irritated."

Still, the plain cigarettes packaging  is practiced only in Australia so far but it will spread all over the world. On our website you can buy brand cigarettes as you were used to. The majority of our cigarettes are shipped from Europe.