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  • 22-08-2013 12:11am
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    muffler
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    Just to settle an argument does anyone know why Carrol's cigarettes (Number 1 and Major) are only available to buy in Ireland?


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    Agent Smith
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    muffler wrote: »
    Just to settle an argument does anyone know why Carrol's cigarettes (Number 1 and Major) are only available to buy in Ireland?

    Pretty Sure they were manufactured In Ireland only, In Dundalk.

    Pretty sure they are owned by BAT now.


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    OldGoat
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    I used to buy Major when I lived in London and found them in a few shops in Liverpool too. Not widely available admittedly but they were there none the less.

    I'm older than Minecraft goats.



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    muffler
    Registered Users Posts: 45,846 ✭✭✭✭muffler


    I remember from a long number of years ago when I lived for a while in Strabane which is just over the border in N.I. I used get the Major in a local family run shop but the owner was telling me he had to buy them in Donegal as he couldnt get them from the wholesalers in N.I.

    Probably about 90% of shops in NI. wouldnt sell them and the other 10% would be shops located close to the border. I wasn't aware that they were sold in in Liverpool and London.

    I also know that several if not all duty free shops abroad never stock them.

    They are difficult to get outside of Ireland and I thought it had something to do perhaps with some form of exporting license whereas a friend of mine thinks that the company never pushed the marketing on foreign lands


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