Cheap Marlboro cigarettes are easily available over the internet ever since they became hardly affordable. Well, the question is not the one of principles when selling or buying cheap cigarettes. There always have been smokers for ages that budged inch by inch to accommodate the evolving prices till recently and there have been a steady increase in the number of smokers for all brands of cigarettes with Marlboro leading the pack which was followed by Virginia Slims, Camel, Winston, Davidoff, LM and Dunhill amongst many.

On the other hand, there are some social forces which are after smoking and they always have had their places under the Sun. Governments and administrations have always been actively considerable of public health quite the thing to do for the declared custodian of general public at large smokers or non smokers. The school of thought behind all these till recently has been that containment of smoking was enough which is evident in all the curtailing steps that are taken till date.

However, look at the other side where the sales figure of leading cigarette brands such as Marlboro, Virginia Slims, Camel, Winston, Davidoff, LM, 555 and Dunhill, to name a few, are witnessing steady growth despite all measures like clipping off of advertisements, tax hikes etc. Do you think this growth would have been possible at the present rate had there been scientific restrictions? Well, this scientific route isn’t some godsend thing that ensures magical achievements for the governments nevertheless, they would have acted positively and demonstrated that the intentions of the governments are sound and rock solid. Failure to take a shot at this is now clearly evident from the growing demand for cheap discount cigarettes which are being sold over the internet from East European countries.

Broadly there are two faces to discouraging smoking at community levels.
the demand side
the revenue side

The steady, if not growing, demand for cheap cigarettes or discount cigarettes is apparently the result of failure of administrations to tackle the above two or at least one of them totally effectively. What we are witnessing today is the result of governments’ apathy or disinterest for rooting out the menace.

There will always be smokers that enjoy a good smoke with their hot beverages held in their other hands. These are not the part of first groups to jump into buying cheap cigarettes from a local store in bulk because of a price hike. It will always be the young smokers including smokers till their thirties and fresh entrants that go for discount cigarettes for obvious reasons such as high smoking tendencies and the question of affordability. These are the same people that get ready to experiment by switching brands. These are the same people that are attracted and driven towards cheap cigarettes for sale. They have innocence and urge to believe that, for example, cheap Marlboro cigarettes can actually be genuine regardless of their origin. There are convinced of the reach and power of internet commerce and the price difference of buying discount cigarettes online.

The tasks for governments are cut out clearly. You know where the demand supply originates from if public health is the prime concern go ahead and demonstrate to the world that governments’ coffers have healthy means to fill up than banning, hiking taxes and in the process letting cheap Marlboro cigarettes online easily.

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