• Al Capone$44.00
• Astra$7.60
• Atis$15.30
• Avalon$12.40
• Beratt$15.10
• Bond Street$12.40
• Camel$17.00
• Chesterfield$15.10
• Cigaronne$20.10
• Classic$11.10
• Cosmos$9.43
• Davidoff$21.10
• Doina$10.10
• Dunhill$31.10
• Esse$16.70
• Eva$14.70
• Focus$11.10
• Fluieras$10.10
• Glamour$14.20
• Hilton$11.10
• Karelia$18.10
• Kent$18.90
• Kiss$13.90
• L&M$14.10
• Lady$13.80
• Leana$8.10
• LD$8.40
• Luceafar$9.60
• Lucky Strike$15.60
• Marengo$22.60
• Marlboro$18.70
• Monte Carlo$12.60
• Moods$56.60
• MT$10.60
• Nistru$8.60
• OK$13.10
• Orbita$9.60
• Pall Mall$15.30
• Parliament$22.60
• Plai$10.10
• Plugarul$10.10
• Prima Lux$11.60
• Prefect$12.40
• R1 Slim$17.40
• Red & White$11.10
• Rich$16.70
• Richmond$31.10
• Ritm$11.10
• Sobranie$38.70
• Style$12.10
• Temp$10.10
• Viceroy$11.60
• Virginia$17.70
• Vogue$21.10
• Wind$12.40
• Winston$15.60
• Zimbru$9.60

Another reason to visit Missouri

Exactly as some people who opposed the new tax hike said, people are trying to find opportunities to bypass the price increase. This is just one of hundreds stories similar in their content.

As the hike in cigarettes state taxes came into effect two weeks ago, many Arkansas smokers have not so many choices: they can either pay more or invent other ways to get a puff. One of such ways for getting precious cigs is hitting the road.

Since the first of March the majority of Arkansas residents started paying additional 56 cents for every cigarette pack. This payment does not include 62-cent-a-pack federal tobacco tax increase that would come into force on April, 1.

However, at least one Arkansas city is granted an exemption from the $1.15 tax increase. Why? Simply, because they are subjected to pay taxes to another state that is to Tennessee. In accordance with border regulation all the cities situated on the border line between two states West Memphis which is situated just on the state line with Tennessee is qualified to pay the Tennessee tax and three additional cents.

Other Arkansas residents are considering a trip to other bordering states, where taxes are lower than in their own state since cigarettes are far less expensive on the other side of all states bordering Arkansas. Until April, 1 the least expensive cigarettes are sold in Missouri with only 17-cent-per-pack tax.

Mandy Cantwell, 40-year-old Jonesboro housewife complained that from the moment of state tax hike she had either to go to Missouri to stock for her favorite cigarettes or ask her friends from Missouri to buy her some cigs whenever they would come to Arkansas.

For Cantwell and other smokers, buying cigarettes is an essential part of their lives and the only remaining pleasure. Therefore the recent tax increases have hurt them to the bottom of their hearts.

Chris Blake, a Fayetteville resident said that he would regret going to another state instead of giving profit to his own city but he simply could not afford to buy cigarettes in Arkansas anymore. The Tax hikes have got him to the point where he had either to go somewhere or give up the habit.

Of course, some Arkansas residents recognize that cigarette tax increase would not prevent them for buying cigarettes in their native cities. According to Lindsey Daniel, a cashier who works at a gas station in Jacksonville, she had already seen people coming to their store and complaining about too high prices but coming back in the next couple of days to buy cigarettes.

James Norton, the Revenue Commissioner for the Arkansas Department of Finance stated that such bordering areas exempted from taxes of one state and subjected to pay to another state have existed for a long period of time and there have been more than 300 similar cities across the United States.