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Elle n'achète plus de cigarettes.

Elle n'achète plus de cigarettes.
She does not buy cigarettes anymore.
From Lesson 109:Negative adverbs (ne... plus)·French

Questions & Answers about Elle n'achète plus de cigarettes.

Why is it n' instead of ne here?
The negative word ne drops its 'e' and becomes n' because the verb achète starts with a vowel. The negative structure ne... plus (not anymore) wraps around the conjugated verb exactly the same way ne... pas does.
Why is it de cigarettes instead of des cigarettes?
In French, when a sentence becomes negative (using ne... pas, ne... plus, etc.), indefinite articles like des change to de or d'. Because she is no longer buying them, the plural des becomes a simple de.
Do you pronounce the 's' at the end of plus in this sentence?
No, the 's' in plus is silent here. When plus means 'anymore' or 'no longer' in a negative sentence, the 's' is typically not pronounced, unless it needs to connect to a vowel word right after it. Since de starts with a consonant, the 's' stays silent.
Why does achète have an accent mark when the infinitive form acheter (to buy) doesn't?
Acheter is a stem-changing verb. When it is conjugated for certain pronouns like je, tu, il/elle, and ils/elles, it gets a grave accent (è) to show that the pronunciation of that letter changes to an open 'eh' sound.

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