In the village Katranitsa make cigarettes with a tar

Residents of the village of Smolyan Katranitsa smoke the cheapest cigarettes in Bulgaria. Box of 20 cigarettes in there for about 60 cents worth, but the reason is not dumping the local shop, Focus reported. It is only in the region, which makes its own cigarettes without a special factory to produce or tobacco.
Mayor Dr. Milko Hadzhiev explains that the idea did not come immediately after local residents appreciation of Bulgarian cigarettes. Some of the inhabitants of the village refused cigarettes, but other, larger, can not, while no money every day to buy expensive cigarettes.
Enthusiasts of Katranitsa, hardened smokers, purchased a special machine for stuffing tobacco into cigarettes worth EUR 8 peripatetic traders from the interior of the country do they supply any tobacco, only snipe and filter paper, 100 copies are sold for 2.50 EUR . Tobacco comes from many different parts of Bulgaria, often people are buying and for pipe tobacco. However, mainly used dried tobacco leaves that residents have learned to handle. They boil them in a special technology, which read in a book, flavored them with different additives, dry and pound the leaves, then fill in cigarettes.
Because the type of tobacco used a pack of cigarettes out between 50 and 70 cents, and when used for pipe tobacco, the price is 80 cents.
In the village 250 people live as 1 / 3 of them are smokers. Nobody sells manufactured cigarettes, and creep is only for personal consumption, as every smoker has a few hours to prepare the required quantity of cigarettes per day, or two. Local argue that there is no substantial difference between their cigarettes from shops and only he were more severe.
The mayor, however, although also a smoker, it is clear that a medical person would never smoke a cigarette such as unprocessed tobacco poses risks.
With the cheapest cigarettes in Bulgaria Katranitsa people hardly feel the financial crisis. Until the time a large part of the income of people have gone exactly cigarettes at a price of 17-18 cents for the unit. Now the cost of a local cigarette is about 3-3,5 cents.

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