A netizen shared a story about how he went to Johor with his friends for a short getaway and bought some contraband cigarettes there for about RM5.
However, the cigarettes tasted a little bit weird and when he opened up the cigarette, he found dead ants inside.
Here is what he said
“I went to JB with my friends late one night a few weeks ago to have supper and also to stay over at a relative’s house there before going shopping the next day.
A little background, all of us were smokers, and one of the reasons we went to JB was to smoke cheaper cigarettes.
The cigarettes in JB are relatively much cheaper than Singapore, and they are around the RM13 to RM17 price range. You divide by the exchange rate and it’s so much cheaper.
So after eating supper, we drove around to look see look see and we saw a man peddling cigarettes near an ulu alley beside the road.
We had no idea where we were because we were anyhow driving and the road signs were not very visible because the street lights were not that bright.
So my friend stopped his car and rolled down his window, and asked the man how much was he selling each carton for.
The man told us one carton for RM50, and we were so happy because that amounts to about RM5 per pack, which is like $1.50 in SGD.
So we bought a carton and drove off, before lighting up the cigarettes inside the car.
Oh ya the cigarettes were apparently “Marlboro”, or so that’s what was printed on the cigarette box ah, so Marlboro cannot go wrong right?
My first impression when smoking the cigarette was that it tasted very weird, and the smoke was very very rough on my lungs.
Like you know when you are burning joss paper and you one shot throw too many papers into the bin to burn, and the ensuing smoke kinda chokes you?
It felt like that, and the taste was very bitter and disgusting. And there was also some sparkling sounds from the cigarette when we smoked it, and we got worried that there was something inside that would explode or what.
So I threw away the lit cigarette and took out a new cigarette from the pack, and opened it up, and to my horror, I found a bunch of what appears to be dead ants inside, with the legs and all.
The ants appeared to be ground up with some of the ants’ bodies missing the head, missing the legs, missing the backside all.
I immediately threw the whole pack away and told my friend to stop the car because I had to vomit, it was so disgusting.
In the end we all threw the whole carton away and lamented the waste of RM50, that’s what you get for being super cheapskates.
Never buying contraband cigarettes from JB anymore, lesson learned.”
Editor’s note: You paid RM50 to smoke dead ants hahahaha