If you are the average smoker, a site that offers free cigarette coupons is a welcome oasis in a desert of taxation and mark up. Considering that stores need to make a profit on the product, the mark up can be quite hefty, and if you have taken the time to peruse the last couple of years in tax related propositions and bills, you are not at all surprised that the cost of tobacco rolled with little bits of paper is skyrocketing. While there is precious little that you may be able to do – after all, even the powerful cigarette lobby has been unable to stem the taxation tide – there are those smokers who are looking for new and innovative means to shave off a dollar here, a few cents there, and who are generally always looking for ways to get their favorite packs of smokes at a discount.

Free online cigarette coupons are the latest gimmick in the search for the cheaper pack of smokes. While free cigarette coupons online may give you the notion that getting a pack or carton of discounted cigarettes is simple and easy, you will be in for an unpleasant surprise. While there are the occasional free cigarette coupons that may be had, the majority of sites that advertise coupons for free cigarettes or a free printable cigarette coupon will often have an ulterior motive.

True, it is illegal to charge money for coupons, thus you will not be asked to pay for your free cigarette coupons. Yet on the other hand what you may find if you eagerly sign up with one of the first companies you run across in search of the free cigarette coupons is the demand for your email address. Giving out your home email address is a hit or miss proposition – generally speaking, the odds of accumulating undesirable SPAM messages and having the address sold to anyone with a penny to spare are high, and while you may or may not be rewarded with a coupon in the end is questionable.

Similarly, some sites which offer coupons for popular smokes will require you to sign up with all your information, including address and telephone number, and you only learn later – after you have pretty much finished much of the process – that the site’s coupons are actually only good at the site itself. Thus, the site is little more than a reseller that is advertising itself as a coupon site when in fact they do little more than pass on some of the discount they have received when purchasing the smokes. For honest to goodness free cigarette coupons, your best bet is to visit the website dedicated to your brand of smokes by the manufacturer; usually there is a link to print out a coupon or to participate in some other kind of offer that is designed to ease the burden of spending a lot of money for a good that you will purchase only to burn it.