I wish cigarettes were $3 a pack. I'd love nothing more than to take up smoking again

How much are they now?

I pay less than $3/pack at the NY native store.

I get the Swisher Sweets BLK Pipe Tobacco Tip Cigarillos - Smooth. Two come in a pack for 99 cents. They are actually pretty good. According to my math, three packs actually has more tobacco than a pack of cigarettes for 3 bux.

So I say go for it man! I'm here for a good time, not a long time!

Be a scratter and go dog-ending. Shopping receipts also make good rizla substitutes.

Pack of 20 cigarettes in the UK is nearly 10-12 bucks easily and that's the cheapest brand ditto rolling tobacco which I smoke a 30 gram pouch is 15£ or 21 bucks and that is the cheapest

I can remember them being around 50 cents a pack out of a cigarette vending machine. I'm not even 60 years old yet.

16$ for a sixteen ounce bag, natural, no chemical drying
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Marlboros about $8 where I am.

American Spirits maybe 11 or 12.

I can make a pack of Spirits last twice as long. They need to come down to $6 and I'm on.

I can't believe all those different colors there are of Spirits. The ones sold in stores are only a portion of their varieties.

The good old days of smoking.

Yeh. That's (AS) pretty good tobacco. 16 oz. lasted me a month or two, when I used it. But I rolled skinnies.

low expectations and the reflection in your mirror. must suck

We used to get them out of the old pull machines at the bowling alley when we were kids. Name brand was 50c, off brands were 35c. That is, until Big Dave caught us and ran us off. Fat old bastard could bowl a 300 with a Lucky Strike hanging off his lip. Resorted to grabbing lit ones out of the ashtrays when people went up to the lane for their turn. Ahh, the good ole days..

First pack.. .45 cent.

We've been given a natural choice. A free will, to be.

Smoke, or don't. But to have a regret...is a sign of weakness.



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That brings back memories, I started smoking at 8 and I am the same age as you ,I used to go halvers on a ten pack of cigarettes with friend at school and it was 30 cents each or we used to rip off the vending machines by using tape on the outside of the coin to make it heavier a 10 pence coin could be made into the weight of a fifty pence piece by rapping the tape round the coin 3 and a bit times .

Back then it was one pound a pack so I got a pack for twenty pence and sold them single at school I used to do that with the fruit machine/bandits a dodgy coin got you 1 play and Fourty pence change .


I was never skint as a lad lol

skint - adj. british slang (1930-35) lacking funds, broke, bust, impecunious

I took up smoking as a teenager in '99. 50g Samson duty-free for £3. Thems was the days, laddy! Eee by gum, etc.

I went to middle school from 86 to 88. Me and my friends would base our whole weekends around purchasing cigarettes and smoking.

In high school from 88 to 92, it was cigarettes outside school in the morning, cigarettes on open campus lunch, cigarettes after school by the buses and everyone throwing their butts down before boarding. Could you imagine that today?! They would shut the school down and it would be on the local news. It goes without saying that that kids today are nothing but Pussies.

Marlboro got a big boost with Guns N Roses when I entered high school. Their photo shoots in Hit Parader and Circus were littered with Marlboro packs, cans of beers, bottles of Jack and Jim. My freshman year, all you heard playing on car radios around school was Eazy E, And Justice for All, and Appetite for Destruction. Great fuckin times, and great memories of being alive.

Kids today can have their masks and vapes and pronouns. Fucking losers.

What kind of cheapo are you that you would let a few bucks difference prevent you from enjoying?

Fuck ciggies. Best thing I ever did was quit those nasty shit.

Enjoying a Newport 100 here.

Grow it yourself.

Cheyennes (cigarillos) are still under $3 for a pack of 20.

Less than 80 years ago we had 18yo boys storming the beaches of Normandy, just to end up being target practice for the Germans.

Now they need to find their "safe space" if you tell em they gave you back the wrong change..

I use to get them for 25 cents a pack in the Army. And Wings were only 20 cents a pack! And cigs were free in C rations!

I started young, quit after 25 years. that was over 20 years ago.

The tobacco in modern cigarettes has been poisoned with hundreds of toxic chemicals that cause cancer, disease and addiction. You're not addicted to the tobacco as much as to the chemicals intentionally added to addict you.

It's a disgusting and nasty habit. It controls you. You become it's slave.

Don't go back to that.

Just had a look Benson and Hedges Cigs 25 $53.95

It's very expensive, imagine a pack a day.

When I quit, $8.00 a pack. I miss it too.

I also have fond memories of smoking. I also have unfond memories of wheezing and hacking up a lung.

Yeah. I laughed when I saw 3 dollars a pack! LOL! I remember 50 cents a pack too!