RE: 10 million illegal..... cigarettes?
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Smoking is just as omnipresent here in Vietnam bro. I don't even think that it is illegal at all to smoke indoors in restaurants and bars either. It seems that it is up to the establishment about whether or not they want to have this rule. I know that I make some of my decisions about where I am going to go on whether or not they allow people to smoke indoors. For me, even when I was a smoker, I thought it was bad form to smoke in the presence of non-smokers and would go somewhere else when I wanted a puff.
Back to the point of your post though: I too am surprised that there would be bootlegged cigarettes in Thailand. Those are extremely good fakes! I know years ago that I discovered bootlegged and probably fake Cigs in Singapore in the Indian part of town. Who knows what sort of chemicals and what not was actually in those things. But I suppose since it is smoking, we aren't really all that concerned about the health aspect of it all.
yeah it is about money but it just makes me wonder how inexpensive it must be to manufacture cigs if they are already so cheap but you can make them, on the black market, and sell them for much lower and apparently still be making money.