how many cigarettes??????
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how many cigarettes??????
I am flying to UK tomorrow, does anybody know how many cigarettes I can take back . thanks
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Re: how many cigarettes??????
Originally Posted by patsywhitehair
I am flying to UK tomorrow, does anybody know how many cigarettes I can take back . thanks
This is a long thread but may interest you HERE I think this is about page 17 and some people have had them confiscated, but they did have a lot
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Re: how many cigarettes??????
Originally Posted by jdr
More than you could carry about 16 packs, but only if the Spanish customs let you take them through. Sometimes they check and dont like people taking too many.
This is a long thread but may interest you HERE I think this is about page 17 and some people have had them confiscated, but they did have a lot
This is a long thread but may interest you HERE I think this is about page 17 and some people have had them confiscated, but they did have a lot
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Re: how many cigarettes??????
Originally Posted by jonsol
Is that cartons or individual packets, and why do Spanish customs check what you are taking out ?
Alledgedly you are allowed 16 packs with no problem, but read on the link some people have had them confiscated if customs think they are not for your personal use.
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Re: how many cigarettes??????
Originally Posted by jdr
Everything is scanned now so they know what is in the cases also.
Alledgedly you are allowed 16 packs with no problem, but read on the link some people have had them confiscated if customs think they are not for your personal use.
Alledgedly you are allowed 16 packs with no problem, but read on the link some people have had them confiscated if customs think they are not for your personal use.
I thought that if they are duty paid, which they are if they are bought in Spain, you can take as many back as you like.
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Re: how many cigarettes??????
Originally Posted by jjh
I thought that if they are duty paid, which they are if they are bought in Spain, you can take as many back as you like.
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Re: how many cigarettes??????
Originally Posted by patsywhitehair
I am flying to UK tomorrow, does anybody know how many cigarettes I can take back . thanks
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Re: how many cigarettes??????
Originally Posted by anabella
16 cartons, unless you are flying from the Canaries
I have heard, not sure if i am correct, that if you open every packet there is not a lot you can do but i am unsure?
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Re: how many cigarettes??????
Originally Posted by the sun is shining
Hi Guys
I have heard, not sure if i am correct, that if you open every packet there is not a lot you can do but i am unsure?
I have heard, not sure if i am correct, that if you open every packet there is not a lot you can do but i am unsure?
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Re: how many cigarettes??????
Originally Posted by the sun is shining
Hi Guys
I have heard, not sure if i am correct, that if you open every packet there is not a lot you can do but i am unsure?
I have heard, not sure if i am correct, that if you open every packet there is not a lot you can do but i am unsure?
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Re: how many cigarettes??????
Originally Posted by jonsol
Many years ago this was true, but only if you had just a few more than the permitted 1 carton, if you opened the other packets then they did not bother you, but it was really only perhaps 4 or 5 packets that they allowed for this.
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Re: how many cigarettes??????
Originally Posted by jonsol
Update......Just read Teletext service, a crew member on the QE2 has been stopped with 765,000 cigarettes ! ! ! :scared:
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Re: how many cigarettes??????
Originally Posted by mikelincs
Personal consumption? even at 20 a day it would take about 104 years to smoke them. Don't think he stands much of a chance in his defence. They would ahve gone off by then.
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