these include smoking or chewing tobacco, drinking alcohol, poor oral hygiene, smoking crack cocaine or other street drugs, using peroxide-containing mouthwash, radiation therapy, trigeminal neuralgia, using drugs that cause xerostomia like anticholinergics, antihypertensives and antidepressants, and antibiotics such as tetracyclines and penicillins[11]
Obviously cheaper to buy out of Hong Kong or Switzerland from home--but you can't do that on vacation
Its worth noting that the estimates of cross-border trade in Europe (13 percent of menthol smokers) are self-reported (likely underreported due to illegality), and real illicit trade could be significantly higher in the U.S., since the size of the menthol market makes it a much more profitable market for illicit trade
MMWR 2002;51:642645
This mostly happens from eating cigarettes and consuming liquid nicotine