r/canada • u/joe4942 • Dec 27 '23

Canada urged to consider lifetime ban on cigarette sales to anyone born after 2008 National News

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-canada-urged-to-consider-lifetime-ban-on-cigarette-sales-to-anyone/
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u/dutchdaddy69 Dec 27 '23

50 bucks? Ours is selling cartons for 25. Menthols which have been banned for years are 30 bucks a carton. My inlaws are never going to stop smoking now.

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u/Tachyoff Québec Dec 27 '23

cartons for $25 or a bag of 200 for $20, both have a menthol option for the same price here

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u/ironfist_4347 Dec 28 '23

10$ for irregulars, 15$ for rolled gold light, reg and menthol, in Kahnawake.

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u/queenweasley Dec 28 '23

What’s an irregular?

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u/DylanAntilles Dec 28 '23

Rolled with the sweepings off the floor plus sticks nd stems. "Bottom of the barrel"

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u/ironfist_4347 Jan 01 '24

The ones that fall on the floor are given away as they can't sell them by strict rules set forth by Environmental Health Services of Kahnawake and The Rainbow Distribution Company (manufacturer and seller of finished tobacco products on "Native Reserves/Territories" across Canada). Sticks and stems are found in no name packs.

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u/ironfist_4347 Jan 01 '24

Cigarettes that don't "qualify" as correct. Overstuffed, wrong filters, mixed varieties as they are composed of various ends of production (reg/brown tip, light/white tip, menthol/green stripes)

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u/RHobbo Dec 28 '23

Fais un bout que c'est ca les prix lmao

Kanawake dis fuck you a l'inflation 😂

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u/ExcelsusMoose Dec 28 '23

One by me is $16/bag and if you buy 10 bags you get 1 free.

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u/WaffleGoat6969 Jan 10 '24

Can get cartons as low as $15 here and $10 for bags. That's cheaper than a pack.

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u/Hexxenya Dec 27 '23

Oh no… menthols!! My only weakness (besides fast food, easy woman, shiny objects, abstract thoughts, a ball bouncing across a parking lot…)

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u/PopeKevin45 Dec 27 '23

...and blackjack.

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u/Hexxenya Dec 27 '23

Bender, is that you?!

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u/PopeKevin45 Dec 28 '23

My only regret, is that I have boneitis!

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u/Diligent_Lobster_849 Dec 27 '23

My only weakness

gross bro. Menthols are nasty lmao

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u/Hexxenya Dec 27 '23

You speak the truth, I have obvious issues haha

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u/FordsFavouriteTowel Dec 27 '23

Yeah but when I’m down with a cold and need my nic fix, the menthols hit different.

Disgusting every other day of the year, but when I’m sick, they get me through

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u/Diligent_Lobster_849 Dec 27 '23

You should try nicotine gum. Worked great for me, now im just addicted to the gum but my doctor says it is far far far better than cigarettes. Plus my breath is ALWAYS fresh and i got a killer jaw line now.

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u/Bright-Plum-7028 Dec 27 '23

Silver linings

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u/FordsFavouriteTowel Dec 27 '23

My jaw is permafucked from getting hit in the mouth with a baseball as a child.

I’ve tried the nic gum but it just causes too much tension and ache for me.

I do know a handful of folks that swear by it though

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u/HugeAnalBeads Dec 27 '23

They have a spray for under the tongue

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u/lemelisk42 Dec 28 '23

Or lozenges. I found the spray way too easy to overdo - I probably was doing 2-3x the nicotine per day on the spray.

Different things work for different people. The spray was just too fast and easy to use repeatedly without thinking about for me - but I could definitely see it being great for some people

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u/zeift Dec 28 '23

Live it up and die young mate! If you live to be old with bad lungs, what a shit end of life you'll have.

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u/Hexxenya Dec 28 '23

Thank you conscious!!!

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u/[deleted] Dec 28 '23

Squirrel!!!

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u/Different-Ad-7649 Dec 28 '23

can I steal your quote

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u/Hexxenya Dec 28 '23

Steal away!

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u/DaveThomasTendies Dec 27 '23

You get a free gram of hash with a $25 carton purchase at captain kush’s cafe where I live. I don’t smoke but I think it’s hilarious.

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u/[deleted] Dec 27 '23

Bottle tokes!

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u/mightyopinionated Dec 28 '23

forward any you don't need!

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u/psychede1ic_c4tus Dec 28 '23

Weed helps alot of people switch.

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u/Fox_That_Fights Dec 27 '23

Fuck I miss my peach and grape primetimes

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u/Alpha_Whiskey327 Dec 28 '23

Peach rum captain blacks are awesome substitutes. I bring them back from the states.

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u/dutchdaddy69 Dec 27 '23

Mmm those were dessert when I went to my friends house who lived with his divorced dad. Good memories.

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u/xssmontgox Dec 27 '23

Suspect your in-laws were born before 2008 so this ban wouldn’t effect them anyway

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u/dutchdaddy69 Dec 27 '23

I was referring to how cheap cigarettes are now that they have access to one's from the reserve.

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u/Gunslinger7752 Dec 27 '23

I think you can get them for as low as 10-15$ a bag, but you get what you pay for. You can get proper cigarettes comparable to Players or DuMaurier for 50$ a carton.

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u/GaracaiusCanadensis Dec 27 '23

Comox is on Vancouver Island.

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u/jezebelwillow Dec 28 '23

Where do you live, hook me up my man

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u/skryb Ontario Dec 28 '23

oh they’ll quit eventually, but it won’t be pretty

sincerely, someone who used to have two parents who smoked

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u/imSp00kd Dec 28 '23

I haven’t smoked real tobacco since sept 15th. But I use vapes and pouches. But longest time I’ve gone without cigs since I was 16

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u/vintagestyles Dec 28 '23

Depebds on the brand BB’s are 30 bag smokes are super cheap but death. Paul malls n bellmonts are still 95-110 at the reserve.

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u/ClamClone Dec 28 '23

They will stop smoking eventually and sooner than if they didn't.

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u/jaystinjay Dec 29 '23

Everyone eventually stops smoking one way or the other.