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ironzeppelin04 · Frequent Guest Joined: 29 Dec 2007 Posts: 70 Location: USA

What Brand cigarettes are in Russia?

nikir · Posted: Mon Dec 31, 2007 4:58 am Post subject:

All the well known American brands, plus a lot of Russian brands.

RG · Just Starting Joined: 15 May 2008 Posts: 2

Russian cigarettes is realy shit man. Its like a weed 4real

Absurd · Frequent Guest Joined: 22 Apr 2008 Posts: 28

[quote="RG"]Russian cigarettes is realy shit man. Its like a weed 4real[/quote]

I tried cheapest "Belomorkanal" and was surprised because these tastes almost like Cuban cigarettes mostly because they consisted from raw tobacco coated in paper, nothing more.

bobsonnn · Posted: Tue May 27, 2008 4:10 pm Post subject:

Belomorkanal is not cigarretes, it is called папиросы, (paper rosy)

bunker6 · Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2008 8:26 pm Post subject:

Belomorkanal is cool. It has no filter, such a roll-it-yourself-joint kit =)))

Russian cigarettes are essentialy the same shit as all other cigarettes, no more no less.

There's a plenty of brands. Do you want some specific info?

cjstanchek · Just Starting Joined: 26 Jan 2009 Posts: 3

how much is a pack of marlboros in russia. they tax the hell out of them in the US.

IvanGonzalez · Just Starting Joined: 27 Jan 2009 Posts: 4

Yava, Prima, Belomorkanal Smile

... But all of them are garbage.

gaijin · Lounge Lizard Joined: 03 Oct 2007 Posts: 155

A pack of Marlboro will cost about 1 euro... but it will be locally made (maybe in Central Asia) Marlboro, they just have the name, it is completely different.
It is very common here to have locally made international brands. For example Baltika brews a beer under the name Asahi (which is quite OK) in Saint Petersburg, that's why you can get Japanese beer at a decent price.
I think the biggest producer and seller of cigarettes in Russia is JT (Japan Tobacco), under many different brands (Camel, Winston, Russian Style, Mild Seven, Peter I, Ducat...). They sell tens of billions of them but hardly any Russian knows they are supporting a Japanese company when buying them.

RyZ · Posted: Sat May 16, 2009 7:08 am Post subject:

id027 · Posted: Sun May 17, 2009 1:21 am Post subject:

"Papirosy Belomorkanal" are a top-notch. You know why? Because they're cheap as hell. And they aren't supposed for smoking. They're supposed to be a material for joints Smile

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bonch.bruevich · Posted: Sun May 17, 2009 11:29 pm Post subject:

id027 · Posted: Sun May 17, 2009 11:55 pm Post subject:

coolfrenz28 · Just Starting Joined: 15 Oct 2009 Posts: 5