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<ownershipDocument>

    <schemaVersion>X0306</schemaVersion>

    <documentType>4</documentType>

    <periodOfReport>2022-02-24</periodOfReport>

    <notSubjectToSection16>0</notSubjectToSection16>

    <issuer>
        <issuerCik>0000059440</issuerCik>
        <issuerName>VECTOR GROUP LTD</issuerName>
        <issuerTradingSymbol>VGR</issuerTradingSymbol>
    </issuer>

    <reportingOwner>
        <reportingOwnerId>
            <rptOwnerCik>0001818053</rptOwnerCik>
            <rptOwnerName>Ballard James D</rptOwnerName>
        </reportingOwnerId>
        <reportingOwnerAddress>
            <rptOwnerStreet1>C/O VECTOR GROUP LTD.</rptOwnerStreet1>
            <rptOwnerStreet2>4400 BISCAYNE BLVD; 10TH FLOOR</rptOwnerStreet2>
            <rptOwnerCity>MIAMI</rptOwnerCity>
            <rptOwnerState>FL</rptOwnerState>
            <rptOwnerZipCode>33137</rptOwnerZipCode>
            <rptOwnerStateDescription></rptOwnerStateDescription>
        </reportingOwnerAddress>
        <reportingOwnerRelationship>
            <isDirector>0</isDirector>
            <isOfficer>1</isOfficer>
            <isTenPercentOwner>0</isTenPercentOwner>
            <isOther>0</isOther>
            <officerTitle>See Remarks</officerTitle>
        </reportingOwnerRelationship>
    </reportingOwner>

    <nonDerivativeTable>
        <nonDerivativeTransaction>
            <securityTitle>
                <value>Common Stock</value>
            </securityTitle>
            <transactionDate>
                <value>2021-07-10</value>
            </transactionDate>
            <deemedExecutionDate></deemedExecutionDate>
            <transactionCoding>
                <transactionFormType>4</transactionFormType>
                <transactionCode>F</transactionCode>
                <equitySwapInvolved>0</equitySwapInvolved>
            </transactionCoding>
            <transactionTimeliness>
                <value></value>
            </transactionTimeliness>
            <transactionAmounts>
                <transactionShares>
                    <value>2790</value>
                </transactionShares>
                <transactionPricePerShare>
                    <value>10.7623</value>
                    <footnoteId id="F1"/>
                </transactionPricePerShare>
                <transactionAcquiredDisposedCode>
                    <value>D</value>
                </transactionAcquiredDisposedCode>
            </transactionAmounts>
            <postTransactionAmounts>
                <sharesOwnedFollowingTransaction>
                    <value>40243</value>
                </sharesOwnedFollowingTransaction>
            </postTransactionAmounts>
            <ownershipNature>
                <directOrIndirectOwnership>
                    <value>D</value>
                </directOrIndirectOwnership>
            </ownershipNature>
        </nonDerivativeTransaction>
    </nonDerivativeTable>

    <footnotes>
        <footnote id="F1">Represents the transfer of shares from reporting person to Issuer as payment of the reporting person's payroll tax withholdings incident to the vesting of 6,250 shares of restricted stock, which were awarded to reporting person on February 24, 2021. The shares were transferred at $10.7623 per share, which represented the average of the low ($10.5545) and high ($10.97) stock prices of the Issuer's Common Stock on February 24, 2022, the date of vesting.</footnote>
    </footnotes>

    <remarks>SVP - Enterprise Efficiency and CTO

Exhibit 24 - Power of Attorney (previously filed as Exhibit 24 to Form 3 dated July 10, 2020, which was filed on July 14, 2020.)</remarks>

    <ownerSignature>
        <signatureName>/s/ J. Bryant Kirkland, III, Attorney In Fact</signatureName>
        <signatureDate>2022-02-28</signatureDate>
    </ownerSignature>
</ownershipDocument>
