Buying Guides

A carton is a well-designed shipping unit: dense, rectangular, and already sealed in cellophane. That is why online tobacco sells […]

Newport’s combination of high volume and high brand recognition makes it one of the most counterfeited cartons in the US. […]

Most people smoke the brand they started with, and most started with whatever was available. If you are buying by […]

There is no expiry date printed on a cigarette pack anywhere in the US, and that is not an oversight. […]

The small printed band across the end of a cigarette carton is the single most informative object on the package, […]

“Carton” is one of those words that everyone in tobacco uses and nobody defines. It is a unit of sale, […]

Two packs, same brand, same cigarettes, different box. The soft pack is the older format — a paper sleeve with […]

The difference sounds trivial — 85mm versus 100mm — and in a sense it is. But the extra 15 millimetres […]

Counterfeit cigarettes are a real market, and the fakes have got better. The old tells — a badly printed logo, […]

Tobacco is an agricultural product, and it behaves like one. It holds a target moisture level, it loses aromatic compounds […]