Here in New Zealand a packet of 25 cigarettes is $22.90.
Most of it is tax.
Our 'We Know What is Best For You' government is trying to make the general population give up smoking by making it too expensive to smoke.
All it means is that the lower economic classes spend more on smokes, and less on food for their kids.
When they started bumping the tax up on tobacco, I tried to grow my own; but the possums liked it too, and cleaned the lot out virtually overnight.