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印度香烟论支卖 　　徐复岭 　　印度香烟的价钱跟我国差不很多，但包装有些不同。印度香烟的包装有20支一盒的，也有10支一盒的。10支装比20支装体积小了一半，价钱也少了一半。这就方便了顾客的购买和携带，尤其方便了那些处于流动状态中的烟民。不仅如此，许多香烟摊点还把整盒的香烟拆开，以支为单位卖给顾客。起初我对这一现象颇有微词，觉得印度人小气，消费水平低。但时间久了，我发现我的看法有失公允。香烟论支出售，对买卖双方都有利。有不少烟民出外时并不随身携带香烟。但若想抽烟怎么办？有的烟民一时囊中羞涩，没有足够的钱买成盒的香烟，但又忍不住要过烟瘾怎么办？论支出售便为他们提供了便利。本人就有这方面的亲身体验，尝到了其中的“甜头”。在印度，因多为高温炎热天气，为节省体力少出汗，外出时带的东西越少越好，既然街上有散包的烟卖，香烟就不用随身带了。在旅途中、在逛大街时，甚至在两节课的间隙，如果烟瘾上来，只要上街买上一支香烟就行了。这是对买方的便利。而对卖方来说，恰恰应了我们中国经商的那句名言：“薄利多销。”而实际上，“利”还不一定真的就“薄”，一支香烟的零售价往往高出其论盒出售时的平均价。举例来说，10支装的“金火花”牌香烟定价21卢比一盒，每支平均才合2．1卢比；但烟摊论支卖时一般要卖到2．5卢比一支，高出平均价0．4卢比。 　　为方便顾客点燃香烟，香烟摊点都免费提供火柴。有的摊点则在门口墙上或木柱上悬挂一个通电的点烟用的小装置，利用电路接通后烧红的金属丝点燃香烟。原理跟电炉子相同，而且有一个绝缘的按钮，使用起来安全可靠。这种小装置我给它取个名字叫电点烟器。更为奇特的是我住地的附近有一个公共汽车站，站旁有一个售烟亭，亭前紧靠候车棚的柱子上挂着一盘草绳。卖烟的印度老人营业时就把这草绳点燃，但只冒烟不起明火。开始我还以为是用它熏赶蚊子呢，当我看到有人对着它点燃香烟时，才恍然大悟，知道了它的真正用途。 Indian Chief Leads Fight to Keep Selling Cigarettes MASTIC, N.Y. — Down by the lapping waters of Great South Bay, the Indian chief stared up at the trees swaying in the wind. Then he squinted: Was that a surveillance camera on top of that utility pole? Probably not, but Harry Wallace, chief of the Unkechaug Nation, says he has good reason to be watching his back — and his tribe’s — closely. He and several other owners of shops that sell cigarettes on the tiny Poospatuck reservation on the South Shore of Long Island, where the Unkechaugs are based, have been sued by the City of New York. The city claims that this Indian enclave — the closest reservation to New York City — has become a “tax evasion haven” and a drain on the city’s coffers. The Bloomberg administration says the city and the state lose more than $1 billion a year in tax revenue because of what it calls bootleg cigarettes distributed on Indian reservations in New York. Of that amount, the administration contends, $195 million represents the city’s share, and officials blame the Unkechaug Nation reservation for most of that. New York City officials say millions of cartons of untaxed cigar