If you are a smoker in Puerto Rico there are not many brands of cigarettes that you can buy (I stopped smoking in September). Pretty much your only choices are Marlboro for regular cigs or Kool if you smoke menthols. I did find a few places that you could buy Camel Turkish Gold (which was my brand of choice in the States). I also noticed that since there was no competition, there were never any specials like “Buy one pack get one free”. So if you are vacationing to Puerto Rico, make sure you bring your brand of choice.

Liquor stores in PR will also sell cigarettes individually. I have seen individual cigs for sell from any where from $0.25-0.50 which is marketed for the homeless purchase. I have also been told that it was possible to buy pack that had only 10 cigarettes until a few years ago.

Recently Puerto Rico followed suit with what most major cities are doing and banning smoking in restaurants and bars. Most establishments are very confused about the law. If a restaurant has a patio, some will let you smoke outside and some will not stating it’s against the law. Before I stopped smoking I was in a walkway smoking close to fast food place and someone came outside of the restaurant saying I couldn’t be that close to a building while smoking.