system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
why are 100s (longer cigarettes), the same price as regular length cigarettes?

why are 100s (longer cigarettes), the same price as regular length cigarettes?
gpt
One factor that may be at play here (not knowing enough about cigarettes in particular to say for sure), is that the breakdown of costs is different than you've envisioned in your head.

One of the most prominent places this comes into play is clothing.  The reason a small shirt generally costs the same as an XL is that only a very small portion of the price represents the physical cloth used.  The vast majority of the cost comes elsewhere in the process.  It costs the same amount of money to design a large shirt as a small one, the same amount to market it, and the cashier doesn't get paid any more or less depending on the size of the clothes people buy that day.

I'd imagine that cigarettes might fit a similar pattern, with the majority of the costs coming from sources beyond raw materials/manufacture.