If you want to buy discount cigarettes in Rome, it is generally simple, as long as you know about specific confinements. We demonstrate to you how.
Not service stations, not general stores, sedate stores, bars, bistros or accommodation stores: just tabaccai. (Some bistros, bars, and administration stations on roads do have a tobacco permit, yet they’re the special case not the run the show.)
Note that the more established signs say “sali e tabacchi” – “salts and tobaccos”. This is on account of in the past salt, similar to tobacco, could be sold with permission only. They are likewise authorized to play out a portion of the obligations that would regularly be done in a mail station, such as offering essential postage stamps (francobolli), enabling individuals to pay service charges, stopping fines and so on.
Tabaccai distribute most real universal brands, for example, Marlboro, Philip Morris, and so forth. It is hard to discover menthol cigarettes, in any case.
You can buy discount cigarettes in tabaccai but because the cigarette costs are governmentally controlled, there is never any rebate accessible.
Half-estimated packs of cigarettes are likewise accessible in numerous tabaccai. You just need to request “una scattola di dieci [your brand]).
Cautioning: in focal regions, for example, Trastevere a few bars have a tobacco permission and a counter inside the bar, and there are now and then autonomous tabaccai that stay open late, however outside the traveler focuses, most tabaccai close early – around 6 or 7pm.
A large portion of these do have 24-hour candy machines confronting the road, however you can not utilize them unless you can demonstrate your age with an Italian-officially sanctioned card. This is on account of they are not permitted to sell tobacco to minor purchasers.