(b) In all advertisements, offers for sale or sales involving two or
more items, at least one of which items is cigarettes, at a combined
price, and in all advertisements, offers for sale, or sales involving
the giving of any gift or concession of any kind whatsoever (whether it
be coupons or otherwise), the agent's, retail dealer's or wholesale
dealer's combined selling price shall not be below the cost of the
agent, the cost of the retail dealer or the cost of the wholesale
dealer, respectively, of the total costs of all articles, products,
commodities, gifts and concessions included in such transactions.
(c) When one wholesale dealer sells cigarettes to any other wholesale
dealer, the former shall not be required to include in his selling price
to the latter, the cost of the wholesale dealer, as defined by paragraph
two of subdivision (b) of section four hundred eighty-three of this
article, except that no such sale shall be made at a price less than the
cost of the agent for sales to wholesale dealers as defined by paragraph
one of subdivision (b) of section four hundred eighty-three of this
article, but the latter wholesale dealer, upon resale to a retail
dealer, shall be deemed to be the wholesale dealer governed by the
provisions of paragraph two of subdivision (b) of section four hundred
eighty-three of this article.
(d) When one agent sells cigarettes to any other agent, the former
shall not be required to include in his selling price to the latter, the
cost of the agent, as defined by paragraph one of subdivision (b) of
section four hundred eighty-three of this article, except that no such
sale shall be made at a price less than the basic cost of cigarettes, as
defined by paragraph one of subdivision (a) of section four hundred
eighty-three, but the latter agent, upon resale of such cigarettes,
shall be deemed to be the agent governed by paragraph one of subdivision
(b) of section four hundred eighty-three of this article. Cigarettes
sold by an agent to an agent must be picked up at the warehouse of the
selling agent, or delivered to the warehouse of the purchasing agent.