One carton of cigarettes usually contains 10 packs of cigarettes and they usually cost $5.00 per pack depending on the brand of the cigarettes you buy.
S if the pack of cigarettes is $5.00 which it usually is in North Carolina and other places then you would pay $50.00 per carton of cigarettes which is pretty expensive.
But that doesn't usually include the tax either so you might pay $54.00 or $55.00 per carton of cigarettes in North Carolina.
That goes for a lot of other places as well as Cigarettes have gotten pretty expensive in other areas as well.