Cigarettes cheaper than e-cigarettes in 44 of 45 countries

[GunJack]

Apr 1, 2016 16:55:39 GMT toots said:

Apr 1, 2016 8:50:36 GMT chykensa said:

Tobacco - never again, and I really can't see how cigarettes are cheaper than e-cigs in so many countries, unless the respective governments are not taking enough tax from them!

Actually as I have mentioned before in a few posts over time, vaping over here does work out more expensive than smoking due to the fact that cigarettes are very cheap here and vape gear and juice is very expensive (unless you know where to buy your gear from which is definitely not on this island).

Even DIYing works out quite a bit more expensive for me than it does for you guys in the UK coz of all the shipping fees that I have to shed out to get the gear over from the UK to here   It does still work out cheaper than buying ready made juice here though. But as an example 2 litre bottles of VG costing a total of £19.80 from the UK shipped over just last week cost £34.36 in shipping charges so in total that was a cost of £54.16 for those 2 bottles

When you consider a pack of L & B ciggies only cost around 2.50 euros per pack (approx £2 per pack) and juice costs 7.50/8.00 euros for 10ml (approx £6) and then there's the actual kit (mods/tanks) which are normally around double the price of UK stuff and then consumables such as coils etc costing probably 4 times as much as what you pay in the UK then you can see how much more expensive it is than smoking.

Not too much incentive for peeps here to give up smoking, other than health of course, which is the only reason I gave up and turned to vaping.

But yes chykensa we do have a much lower tax rate on cigarettes than the UK or even Spain, so the last part of your statement is in fact correct.

wouldn't it work out cheaper to get a cheap return flight with an outbound half-empty suitcase??

[markus]

Mar 31, 2016 22:06:52 GMT tim said:

AND COMPLETELY ignoring shinetitis! shineyitis!

LMFAO....as if any member on here could do that !.....

[toots]

Apr 1, 2016 22:30:28 GMT GunJack said:

Apr 1, 2016 16:55:39 GMT toots said:

Actually as I have mentioned before in a few posts over time, vaping over here does work out more expensive than smoking due to the fact that cigarettes are very cheap here and vape gear and juice is very expensive (unless you know where to buy your gear from which is definitely not on this island).

Even DIYing works out quite a bit more expensive for me than it does for you guys in the UK coz of all the shipping fees that I have to shed out to get the gear over from the UK to here   It does still work out cheaper than buying ready made juice here though. But as an example 2 litre bottles of VG costing a total of £19.80 from the UK shipped over just last week cost £34.36 in shipping charges so in total that was a cost of £54.16 for those 2 bottles

When you consider a pack of L & B ciggies only cost around 2.50 euros per pack (approx £2 per pack) and juice costs 7.50/8.00 euros for 10ml (approx £6) and then there's the actual kit (mods/tanks) which are normally around double the price of UK stuff and then consumables such as coils etc costing probably 4 times as much as what you pay in the UK then you can see how much more expensive it is than smoking.

Not too much incentive for peeps here to give up smoking, other than health of course, which is the only reason I gave up and turned to vaping.

But yes chykensa we do have a much lower tax rate on cigarettes than the UK or even Spain, so the last part of your statement is in fact correct.

wouldn't it work out cheaper to get a cheap return flight with an outbound half-empty suitcase??

Funny you should say that GunJack coz me and one of my neighbours who has recently got into vaping and DIYing were discussing this very subject just yesterday.

He sometimes has to go back to the UK to sort out various family bits & pieces and he said next time he goes back instead of just having hand luggage he will bring a case back full of VG/PG and god knows how many bottles of concentrates - enough for the two of us for a good few months. We don't think there's any restrictions on amount of liquid you can have in a case. He was serious too. We would share the cost of the luggage charge but it would work out one hell of a lot cheaper in the long run. And if his wife goes with him we could have 2 cases full of the liquid

[GunJack]

Apr 1, 2016 23:11:14 GMT toots said:

instead of just having hand luggage he will bring a case back full of VG/PG and god knows how many bottles of concentrates - enough for the two of us for a good few months. We don't think there's any restrictions on amount of liquid you can have in a case. He was serious too. We would share the cost of the luggage charge but it would work out one hell of a lot cheaper in the long run. And if his wife goes with him we could have 2 cases full of the liquid

exactly It'd only be the same as in the old days doing the fag/tobacco day trip to wherever but in reverse. I remember one trip was a very nice day in Bilbao and visited the Guggenheim museum there, with a suitcase full of L&B and golden virginia in tow

Remember your nic base too - if he's got family he's visiting, there's an ideal UK delivery address