Unreal Cigarette Prices

[Wingfoot]

The wife & I just got back from a trip to the Northeast to sightsee the beautiful fall foliage; White Mountain National Forest, New Hampshire is in its peak foliage.

The taxi ride from Boston Logan International Airport to the hotel passed by a corner store with placards in the window advertising cigarette specials:

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I asked the taxi cab driver if the $10.25 price was per each pack? No ****, I was shocked to hear the answer. The driver said it is close to $13 per pack in New York City. These numbers are insane!

I guess I lost touch of reality by living in the fly-over zone. I found that Missouri price per pack today is the lowest in the nation @ $5.25 per pack average.

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There would be no way I could have afforded those numbers when I was a 21 year old heavy drinker and a 3-pack-a-day smoker. I quit smoking 6 years ago on a pack-a-day habit. I remember paying $7.75 then for a 3-pack-special of Marlboro Lights in Missouri. The most I ever paid was $7.75 a pack of smokes 8 years ago at a South Point Casino vending machine in Las Vegas. I remember telling myself I'll never do that again.

I kinda/sorta feel sorry today for the smokers in NYC, Chicago & Boston.…….. just sayin.'

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[Auggie56]

I never smoked, but I recall my parents buying them from a vending machine in the early sixties for twenty-five cents a pack, with three pennies taped to the pack for change from your quarter. I had good teachers for not smoking from my parents because both of them had smokers cough as far back as I could remember. My father and best friend both died of smoking-related diseases.

 

[1967coronet440]

They’re approaching $15 a pack in Chicago.

 

[GetX'd]

I was a light smoker when I was a young teenager. Remember paying .35 cents a pack at the Sinclair gas station. Quit for good by the time I was 17 years old. Just didn’t appeal to me any more at that ripe old age. If I didn’t quit then I would have quit a year later when I had a collapsed lung from being in a car accident. Never regretted that decision. One of the only smart things I did as a kid. $14 a pack is crazy money

 

[5.7 hemi]

The tax is discriminatory. It affects only a certain class of people, those that smoke. I get the “don’t smoke and you don’t pay the tax” side of the argument but how about this......we all pay for the drug/alcohol abuse programs not just with taxes, health insurance, but when you buy alcohol and now marijuana. Those that don’t abuse drugs/alcohol are still paying for those that do. Not right!

 

[1967coronet440]

I think the tax alone on a pack in Chicago is around 7-8 bucks

 

[Fran Blacker]

Gee butts aren't $.20 a pack anymore!

 

[coronet68mx]

I never smoked, but I recall my parents buying them from a vending machine in the early sixties for twenty-five cents a pack, with three pennies taped to the pack for change from your quarter. I had good teachers for not smoking from my parents because both of them had smokers cough as far back as I could remember. My father and best friend both died of smoking-related diseases.

And so my old man die because of tobbaco

 

[zyzzyx]

Cigarettes are the only product that kills you if you follow the directions!
I was a three-pack-a-day baby when they brought me home from the
hospital. Glad I got out alive! Whew!
Parents both smoked like fiends.

 

[340challconvert]

I have had a similar experience with my parents; smoking like chimney's They lived at a time when smoking was "glamorous" with all the stars in the movies puffing away.
When I was 6 or 7 years old, my mom would send me to the store to buy the cigs. for her. Imagine that today? at 18 cents a pack.
I had to take a public bus to go to high school. All the students on the bus would smoke like crazy on the trip to school, despite the NO SMOKING sign on the bus. It must have had an impact on me with all the second hand smoke (I hope I'm ok)
I too am glad I "got out alive" and never took up the habit.

 

[kiwigtx]

The price here is north of US$17 a pack of 20....mostly taxes. The Govt here is trying to get the country smoke-free by 2025 or some date near that. I don't smoke myself, and I hear that the percentage of the population that do is down below 20% now.

No advertising of cigarettes is allowed here now,...except for pictures of gory mouth & facial cancers from victims. Ciggies are stored behind plain white doors, and are shut tight until a packet is removed for sale.

 

[Don selleck]

I remember my dad bitching about them in the 70's saying when these sob's hit a dollar a pack I'm quitin'

 

[1962polara]

Australia ......$46 for. 25's pack. That's a $1.84 each cigarette !

6 pack of beer (13 oz) $18.99 , Jack Daniels Whisky $46.95 (24 oz)
Gallon of milk $3.80 (normally $7.60 )
Gallon of petrol $5.70
Big Mac $5.85 (smaller than the US version)

 

[Chargerjase]

I don't smoke, but one of my work colleagues does. I am on a drilling rig in Australia right now and he just paid a whopping AU$82.00 for a packet of rolling tobacco. Now that is crazy!!

 

[Fran Blacker]

How good is vaping? Smoke 2 pack a day times 30 days that's 60 packs at $8 a pack equals $480 a month times 12 = $5760. That'll buy a bunch of parts. Stuff a $20 bill in Hidden in the garage everyday. Oh crap I'm preaching .

 

[Shorthorse]

How good is vaping? Smoke 2 pack a day times 30 days that's 60 packs at $8 a pack equals $480 a month times 12 = $5760. That'll buy a bunch of parts. Stuff a $20 bill in Hidden in the garage everyday. Oh crap I'm preaching .

Nothing to be proud of but I smoke and don't care to quit. I bought an electric rolling machine on Amazon 2-3 years ago for $75. I get 21-22 packs per bag of bulk tobacco. It takes me about 7 minutes to roll a pack. Bagged tobacco at the smoke shop and rolling tubes cost me $18 and some change. I'm waiting for the politicians to figure this out. They can't resist "doing good".

 

[Fran Blacker]

In Ct they had smoke shops to buy loose tobacco papers and rolling machines. Some got the brilliant idea to put automated rolling machines in. Took a year for the state to shut them down. Wife was a smoker, if she had a terminal illness she'd start again. It's a tough habit to quit.

 

[Kern Dog]

They’re approaching $15 a pack in Chicago.

For a few bucks more, you could just smoke some crack.

 

[1967coronet440]

For a few bucks more, you could just smoke some crack.

Right, get a real addiction lol

 

[GetX'd]

Australia ......$46 for. 25's pack. That's a $1.84 each cigarette !

6 pack of beer (13 oz) $18.99 , Jack Daniels Whisky $46.95 (24 oz)
Gallon of milk $3.80 (normally $7.60 )
Gallon of petrol $5.70
Big Mac $5.85 (smaller than the US version)

Is that in the U.S. $ or the AU $ ? Big difference. But big bucks either way.