If
you smoke don’t worry, there are also cigarettes
sold in Mauritius Island. There are local cigarettes
and imported ones. The local cigarettes produced by
the BAT, British American Tobacco, have we could say
a reasonable price but Mauritian find it still
expensive. Some of the Mauritian made cigarettes are
known as Matinée, Embassy, Viceroy, 555 and Matelot.
Matelot is considered as one of the cheapest
cigarettes in island but seems not to have a very
good taste and has a strong smell, so if you will be
smoking these cigarettes it will be easily
recognized. Matinée also a local will still be
produced in Mauritius by Allan Ramsay. Most of the
cigarettes packets are sold in boxes of ten or
twenty cigarettes. The imported cigarettes as
Marlboro normal, Marlboro light, Camel, Dunhill,
Bensons, Rothmans are also found on the market.
The local cigarettes
are less expensive than the imported ones. For
example a packet of Marlboro may cost between Rs85
and Rs150 which is around two and four euros. The
local cigarettes cost between Rs65 and Rs85.
The British American Tobacco has been producing
cigarettes in Mauritius for around eighty years. The
British America Tobacco will be no longer producing
cigarettes in Mauritius as from June 2007; they will
be moving to Kenya but will still be buying tobacco
leaves from Mauritius to produce cigarettes for the
island.
You can if like buy your cigarettes in the Duty Free
Shop of the International Airport of Mauritius at
your arrival and you are sure to find your usual
cigarettes brand you use to smoke, it will cost you
less than to buy it in the shops in the island.
Customs allow each person to buy two hundred
cigarettes at the duty free shop.
But do not forget
that cigarettes are not good for health and that
causes a lot of diseases as lung or throat cancer.
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