What are the Cigarette Brands being sold in South Africa under Lockdown?

Which Cigarette Manufacturers have you seen with illicit products for sale during Lockdown?

  • Gold Leaf Tobacco

    Votes: 58 33.5%
  • Golden Tobacco Company

    Votes: 19 11.0%
  • Carnilinx

    Votes: 45 26.0%
  • Amalgamated Tobacco Manufacturing

    Votes: 57 32.9%
  • British American Tobacco

    Votes: 27 15.6%
  • Excise Duty Stamp - Yes

    Votes: 19 11.0%
  • Excise Duty Stamp - No

    Votes: 61 35.3%
  • How much was cost/box <R40 ?

    Votes: 28 16.2%
  • How much was cost/box >R50 ?

    Votes: 63 36.4%
  • How much was cost/box >R90 ?

    Votes: 77 44.5%

  • Total voters
    173

RonSwanson

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I held back buying any weird brands. Heard from someone hat they managed to get some proper lucky strike, Marlboro and fine cuts. Worth the massive premium IMO.

And yet I can but CBD vape liquid lol.
Does it kill your cravings?
 

johnjm

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Does it kill your cravings?
It only arrives tomorrow. If it's anything like the zero nicotine vape liquid I had it doesn't.

If you really want to get over smoking, just get the Nicolette patches and gum. It does work just fine.

My habit regains strength because everytime I quit for say 6 months because I end up spoiling myself with a cigarette with my espresso on a cold.winter morning. Then it accumulates from there again.

I've got the herbal cigarettes that I used the last time I quit if you keen and close by.
 

johnjm

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Anyone tried getting cigarettes from overseas? Tempted to ask a friend in the UK to courier some to me with some clothes or something.

I looked into that but realized that it was cheaper to pay the premium locally. Granted I wanted to buy from Switzerland. 90CHF a carton lol.
 

RonSwanson

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It only arrives tomorrow. If it's anything like the zero nicotine vape liquid I had it doesn't.

If you really want to get over smoking, just get the Nicolette patches and gum. It does work just fine.

My habit regains strength because everytime I quit for say 6 months because I end up spoiling myself with a cigarette with my espresso on a cold.winter morning. Then it accumulates from there again.

I've got the herbal cigarettes that I used the last time I quit if you keen and close by.
Herbal cigarettes? I'm and 70's guy, herbal cigarettes are akin to "green herbs", aka marijuana. Can you elaborate?
 

Sl8er

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Herbal cigarettes? I'm and 70's guy, herbal cigarettes are akin to "green herbs", aka marijuana. Can you elaborate?

Ron after 1 herbal cigarette:

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:D
 

Dr_H

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Serious?? Why? What would make these any worse than any other crap on the market?
I think they are scary cos you do not know what is in them as it is all written in Chinese, but if they are worse than other illegal brands, I actually doubt it.
 

Dr_H

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Interesting. So how many zols do you get out of a 20g pack?
This I can honestly not answer because I did not count. But to put it in another way I got my order around teh 8th of May and my second 20g pack is almost empty. Depending on how you zol I guess about ~30ish per pack maybe (I smoke maybe 3 a day, would be much more if it had nicotine)
 

RonSwanson

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This I can honestly not answer because I did not count. But to put it in another way I got my order around teh 8th of May and my second 20g pack is almost empty. Depending on how you zol I guess about ~30ish per pack maybe (I smoke maybe 3 a day, would be much more if it had nicotine)
How do you close them, like NDZ closes hers?
 
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