<blockquote id="quote" class="ffs">quote:I could be wrong, but from what Ive read you can take 1000 cigs into the US, duty is payable above that amount, 200 is the limit when returning to the UK. From the US Customs website http://www.customs.gov

Question
Traveler bringing tobacco products (cigarettes, cigars, bidis) to the U.S. for their personal use.

Answer
A traveler may include up to 100 cigars and 200 cigarettes (one carton) in the $800 exemption from duty.

U.S. residents on State Department-licensed travel to Cuba may no longer bring cigars or other goods back with them from their visit.

Additional cigars and cigarettes may be brought into the country, but they will be subject to duty and taxes. Cigarettes may also be subject to a tax imposed by state and local authorities. Bidis - essentially flavored cigarettes - are not generally permitted entry. Once every 31 days, a resident returning from travel from American Samoa, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, or the Virgin Islands of the United States may import 1,000 cigarettes (5 cartons), not more than 200 of which acquired elsewhere than in such locations, within the returning resident's $1,200 exemption from duty and taxes.[/quote]Blott, as I said "I could be wrong", so now thats cleared up.
Here's another one, is it not the case that duty free advertise the fact that the allowance for international travel is greater than within the EU?