Unreal Cigarette Prices

[kiwigtx]

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

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Australia ......$46 for. 25's pack.

that still works out at US$33 a pack

 

[kiwigtx]

Have heard some gas stations selling them one at a time, now that is marketing.

That happens a lot in the poorer parts of England. Many stores sell by 3's or singles....and even sell to under-age kids. They work out cheaper by the pack, but the dummies buying them can't work that out yet. Besides, some of the buyers have only just stolen or pawned enough to get a quick fix.

 

[kiwigtx]

I was planning to start this week, now I am not sure.

 

[kiwigtx]

 

[44070dart]

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".

Cheap cancer, nice ... I guess better than spending $10 a pack to get cancer or give it to someone with secondhand smoke.. Hey, if the smoker AND the secondhand cancer victim get cancer from a $10 pack, is that like just $5 a pack??

 

[mopar_chuck]

If the government actually cared about people they would just outlaw them.... however they are such a big cash cow that the government is not going to do that. They make millions of dollars a year off them. If everyone quit smoking, they would have to raise gas or alcohol tax

 

[44070dart]

Yep, and the govt. could then outlaw alcohol, sugar, and McDonald's . You can't legislate ignorance out of the population.

 

[69a100]

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".

First off, don't come crying to us when you find out you have cancer or some other screwed up respiratory disease because your fickle and weak! Second, you must be real proud that you can twist up a butt as fast as that and save money in the process. But are you really saving money when it all goes up in smoke? Why do you think they call smokers "BUTTHEADS"?

I was only in the Army for 3 1/2 months though. Maybe if I was in longer, I may have had better luck.

Sorry to hear that your Service was cut short by the Army's incompetence! I'm surprised they didn't find you a new, quieter job. I wonder what the hearing standards are for Army? Thank you for your brief sacrifices while serving.

I say smoke all you want, my mom is pushing 100 yrs old, she smoked for 80 yrs two packs a day.
That said, I hope cigs go to $20 a pack, Make The South Rich Again!

The south and big tobacco want nothing to do with their product, but have no choice but to keep growing it.
History lesson for you carnut. Do you know what the souths major cash crop was before the civil war? Here's a hint, It wasn't tobacco!

 

[MOPOWER871]

My Dad smoked Lucky Strike, when I was a kid I remember him getting up for work lighting one up and it would sit idling on the bathroom sink as he shaved and the smoke would linger into my room. I would wake up with the nasty taste of Tobacco in my nose and mouth . that curried my of smoking for life new smoked. thanks dad although I did like hash as a teenager ;-)

 

[69a100]

nasty taste of Tobacco in my nose and mouth . that curried my of smoking for life new smoked.

Wait, what? That makes no sense? My dad was a chimney with filterless Pall Mall's.

 

[mopar 3 B]

Huh?

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That should be funny. I have dealt with it for 60 years and have yet to hear the humor.

 

[monaco66coupe]

It may have been said before, but in 1965 at the age of 13 I loaded the cigarette machine at my Dad's gas station(Mobil)daily. A pack was .25 cents.
I said to my dad: what? Who would do that? I only made .35 cents an Hour!
I never smoked, but everyone else I know did. My dad died at 51 years old from cancer, my brother at 62 from cancer. My sister had cancer at 62.
Still, in those days 74 percent of Americans smoked.
In 1970 I went to USAF boot camp, and after running several miles, the TI would stop us, give us a break, and said: smoke em if you got em".
I didn't, and was asked why. I said: You want me to run three miles, and then smoke? HAHAHA

 

[mopar 3 B]

The south and big tobacco want nothing to do with their product, but have no choice but to keep growing it.
History lesson for you carnut. Do you know what the souths major cash crop was before the civil war? Here's a hint, It wasn't tobacco!

I can think of two answers. two legged critters and cotton. Not sure which was the bigger enterprise.

 

[JB400]

Cotton was king, slavery was on it's way out, due to mechanization

 

[5.7 hemi]

If tobacco products are outlawed by the government as one poster suggests, then alcohol should be on that list.

 

[mopar 3 B]

Outlaw alcohol and gas prices would skyrocket. In most states its only 10% but that's still a huge number.

 

[5.7 hemi]

Alcohol is bad for you, lol! Just showing how ridiculous it would be to outlaw one thing and not the other. Besides, what does alcohol have to do with the price of gas?

 

[ocdart]

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.

Like you, I never smoked either because my dad died when I was 7 from his 2nd heart attack his doctor attributed directly to his heavy unfiltered-Camel smoking. Then my grandfather developed lung cancer and literally coughed up a lung sitting on the edge of his bed one morning.
My grandparents lived next door when I was growing up and I could always tell when "Pa" woke up because of hearing his morning coughing everyday.

 

[ocdart]

Like you, I never smoked either because my dad died when I was 7 from his 2nd heart attack his doctor attributed directly to his heavy unfiltered-Camel smoking. Then my grandfather developed lung cancer and literally coughed up a lung sitting on the edge of his bed one morning.
My grandparents lived next door when I was growing up and I could always tell when "Pa" woke up because of hearing his morning coughing everyday.
Never dated a woman who smoked either.

 

[dual fours]

I did not smoke two full packs of cigarettes in my whole life. As a teenager, that being to costly, and not enough nerve to (I forget what it was called to ask someone for one), o yea, bum a cigarette that was the word, 'bum'. Now French kissing a girl that smoked was like licking out an ashtray. I liked the sweet tasting girls better. My mom would dump, four years my senior, my sister's pocket book out on the floor when she came in smelling like cigarettes, and some times an *** beating when the pack hit the floor. She never stopped smoking even when she knew, till the day she died at the age of 42 of lung cancer leaving a husband and three small children. It amazes me when someone passes by that must be a heavy smoker, the stench is so strong, it reminds me of that Charlie Brown character Pig Pen and the cloud that surrounds him as he walks. I see people picking butts off the sidewalks and inhaling to see if any are still burning and if not, in the pocket it goes for a later time. What a life. I guess it starts out as a choice and turns in to an Addiction.