It's only $508 per cigarette:

https://shop.nist.gov/ccrz__ProductDetails?sku=1196a&cclcl=e...

That’s $508 for two cartons for 400 cigarettes total, so $1.27 per cigarette. They’re not characterized like the peanut butter, they’re just manufactured to a specific QC standard.

California/New York prices are easily $0.75/cigg so it’s not that much more expensive.

Now I wonder what the GOST ones were like

400 cigarettes actually! Not too bad.