Smokeway is Canada’s first factory-direct place where you can buy cigarettes online in Canada. Not just in bulk quantities, like most others do, but starting from a single carton of your favorite native smokes.
We’re #1 manufacturer who makes Canadian cigarettes available to smokers straight from the conveyor — and we believe it’s actually quite a big deal.
Though, what does it REALLY mean?
And why having an option to buy cigarettes in Canada directly from the factory is a great option to have for any smoker?
Let us break it down, benefit by benefit, and explain why we confidently claim that direct is best.
Benefit #1 — Lower Cost
While resellers have to factor in a whole spectrum of markups and cover their expenses by exaggerating the costs, we let you buy cigarettes at a fair price.
Why are is it so expensive to buy cigarettes in Canada now?
Here’s what you pay for when you buy cigarettes online from a reseller:
- Logistics and transportation from the factory to their storage facility;
- The base cost of cigarettes;
- The retailer markup (unless they work with the manufacturer);
- Their final profit margin (they have to make profit above all the expenses);
- Storage — often long and unsupervised;
- Operations (they have to get your order, inform the facility about it, package it and send your way);
- Time-consuming manual labor — from packaging to tracking, depending on their scale of operations;
- Delivery to your location.
All in all, every step adds a few dollars to the final price, and YOU have to pay for it. That’s how cigarettes in Canada — even in the native smokes segment — got to $50+ / carton.
Why is buying directly from the factory better?
Now — what do you pay for if you buy cigarettes directly from the factory at Smokeway?
- Base price (what smokes really cost);
- Delivery.
That’s it!
The rest happens in-house on our side, and cost of labor, materials and premium tobacco we use is already factored in.
That’s why we’re offering the lowest price on the market: you get your smokes fresh and “warm” from the factory, with no middleman’s profit margins to cover out of your pocket.
And if you’re buying in bulk — which is more comfortable, operations-wise, both for us and for you — it gets even more beneficial because of the economy of scale.
Benefit #2 — Authenticity & Quality Control
Buying from the source ensures you’re getting genuine products, avoiding counterfeit or tampered cigarettes that sometimes circulate in the market. If you’ve ever had, say, a Canadian Classics Silver smoke that didn’t taste like actual tobacco at all and felt cheap — you know what counterfeit smokes are.
Why does counterfeit exist? To cut costs on low-scale manufacturing and exaggerate the profits. In simple terms — to sell you less for more, hiding behind a trusted brand name.
And why is buying directly from the factory a guaranteed way to get original Canadian cigarettes, with their full flavor, premium tobacco blends and exceptional craftsmanship that easily rivals international brands? Simple:
We at Smokeway have an actual quality control in place and don’t need to lower the quality to get a few cents of extra profit.
It’s all about trust
Factory-direct experience is aimed at long-term trust. We don’t want a quick buck “here and now”, it won’t pay for all the expensive machinery and our team’s salaries.
We want everyone to know that our smokes are best in quality, and our customers — to return for more, because they trust us.
And it’s under expert control.
We can afford an actual quality control team. It’s not a one-man show — we have a full department here, a manager and 3 (as of early 2025) experts, that have one job: to verify that every batch of smokes we produce is in line with our quality standards in all aspects.
Quality control applies to everything: from flavor and tobacco filling density to paper quality, filter fitting and composition. And so far — guys on this team do a great job.
Benefit #3 — Consistency
When it comes to buying cigarettes online, we’re talking about two primary aspects of consistency: the supply and the quality. We can guarantee both.
Here’s how it works:
Consistency in supply
When your favorite smokes are suddenly “out of stock” — we know it’s a bad feeling. You’re used to a particular store, you know what to expect from them, and suddenly — they just don’t carry what you need.
Whoopsie, the storage is empty. And it happens with resellers quite often. But why? Because they have to buy in extreme bulk to keep the base price low.
And while large quantities tend to run out sooner or later, negotiating & paying for the next massive batch is not always fast. That’s why you’re often asked to subscribe to notifications, try other cigarettes while yours are unavailable, and so on.
How are we different? We are the factory — so we don’t NEED to have a large stock all the time.
You might’ve noticed that we constantly keep our stock at about 50 cartons (while at resellers’ stores, you’ll often see a stock of 500).
If we need more — we just make it. Period.
It’s a matter of readjusting the tech, rearranging the process a bit and using different source materials (say, the signature Rolled Gold Full Flavor blend instead of the one that’s used for Canadian Classic Originals).
Side note: having a large stock all the time is actually not a benefit — it’s a bad factor both for the manufacturer and the buyer. We use some of the elements of LEAN manufacturing at our factory, following the legendary Toyota practices. It’s just another factor that allows us to keep prices so low.
Consistency in quality
This part of consistency has a lot to do with storage as well.
Cigarettes & expiration date
Contrary to popular belief, cigarettes DO have an expiration date. They don’t get “unsmokable”, but lose a major part of their qualities;
- Smokes get stale;
- Flavor profile turns bland;
- Tobacco filling gets “loose” and uneven.
Also, packs and cartons tend to get damaged physically, and storage unit conditions are not always right for premium cigarettes. If you’ve ever had a flavorless, dull, poorly filled cigarette — you can (well, in most cases, sometimes it’s just fake) say that it’s been sitting at the facility for some time.
With resellers — it’s a lottery: you may get nice, fresh smokes, and you may get the ones that expired a year ago. Which batch is used for your order? Nobody knows.
How are we different?
We pay A LOT of attention to proper storage of our cigarettes.
First of all — we don’t sell OLD cigarettes. Since we’re the factory, all Smokeway cigarettes are fresh by default: they were literally JUST on the conveyor belt;
Next — we keep storage conditions optimised. And not just because it’s short: the storage unit is literally a separate building on our territory, built with (quite expensive to be honest) all the tech we need.
Our storage facility is:
- Temperature controlled — optimised for preservation of tobacco flavor profile all-year-round;
- Humidity controlled — so smokes don’t get any extra moisture and don’t get completely dry;
- Access controlled — just so only the authorized personnel can get in.
Some of our managers believe that investing in this facility was an overkill, “cigs are just cigs, just keep them on the shelf”, but we — luckily — didn’t listen. Given that in 2 years that we’ve had this building we didn’t receive a SINGLE negative comment about stale smokes — we believe that the investment has paid for itself twofold already.
All the detectors and automated systems let us say with confidence: we make the best native cigarettes in Canada. And our customers get them in the best state. Consistently, all the time, in every batch. No exceptions.
Summary — should you buy cigarettes direct?
So, why do we say direct is best? Because it is. In every aspect.
You get:
- Fair price;
- On-point premium quality;
- Reliable stock that never runs out.
And we, in turn, also get:
- Trust of thousands of Canadians;
- Consistent flow of new orders;
- Ability to get rewarded for doing what we love.
It’s a straight-forward, no-hassle, two-way street: buy native cigarettes online directly from the factory, at Smokeway — because it’s simply the most beneficial, cost-effective, and reliably good option. Simple as that.
The final step is to give it a try.
We can talk about the benefits of buying cigarettes directly from the factory all day long because we’re the factory that sells cigarettes directly. We believe that ACTIONS make more than words.
So the most reasonable next step here is to give it a try and buy your favorite native smokes at Smokeway to see first-hand what factory-direct experience is all about. We can guarantee that direct is — indeed — best.
