Poll: Highest price you ever paid for a pack of smokes...

**BARENETTED** · 04-18-2009, 02:58 PM

Originally Posted by agga40s

Before the new tax, I was only paying $17.99 per carton - now they've gone up to $23.99. The most I've ever paid for one pack is probably around $3.50. I cannot imagine paying $8.00 for a pack of cigarettes, but I would have if I'd been stranded with no smokes. Thank goodness for e-cigs!

OMG - 17.99 for a carton!!!!!!

In NJ - it will cost just a little less than that to buy only 2 packs at a CVS or Walmart!!! Mom & pops charge more. The last pack I bought was in the beginning of January - before the new increase. I paid $7.45 - and they didn't give u matches!!!!!!!!!!

On a side note - I sure wish everyone would add their live-in-state to their profile. It makes more sense when reading some of the posts, if you know where the person calls 'home'.

**ozrick** · 04-18-2009, 03:00 PM

Ha! This is an interesting topic.

I just remember being near downtown Chicago and going into a gas station. I said "Give me 3 packs of Winston Light Box".

He handed them over to me, rang them up and said "That will be $32.00 sir". I nearly choked. Needless to say I just got one pack to tide me over till we got back to our burb where cigs are $5-$6 per pack.

Holy crap!

**1HitWonder** · 04-18-2009, 03:11 PM

$5.95 / pack here in Ky

**esmkr209** · 04-18-2009, 04:21 PM

During an unexpected layover at O'Hara airport in Chicago I paid $11.50 for a pack of cigarettes and $5.00 for a lighter. This was after having to walk 3 miles from the terminals to the Hilton hotel looked on the other side of the airport property just to find someone that sold them.

**Menolly** · 04-18-2009, 08:38 PM

I quit right before the recent tax increase, and was usually paying ~$5 a pack for Camel Crush. I think one of the local 7/11s were trying to get ahead of the game, though; One of the last packs I bought cost me nearly $8.

**RIAFlight25** · 04-18-2009, 10:26 PM

$16.00 USD paid at a 7-11 equivalent called Olis in Keflavik, Iceland. I learned real quick to bring plenty with me when I travel now!

**GrozaB** · 04-18-2009, 10:49 PM

I didn't buy(thanks to DSE901!!!), but checked prices in 7-Eleven in Chicago today. $12.84 for pack of Camel... Holy $%#@!!!

**Vapor Fiend** · 04-19-2009, 12:44 AM

I paid $53.50 for a carton of camel filters, what an idiot I was.

My buddy works in Syracuse NY. Today he told me it's $70.30 for a carton of marlboros!

**harmony gardens** · 04-19-2009, 01:27 AM

$3.75.

I bought a Top o Matic injector and made my own after the last increase. Even with this latest tax hit, if you get 500 smokes from a pound of bulk tobacco at $50 a lb and $2.75 a box for tubes, it comes to about $2.70 a pack to make your own.

Making your own still is the most economical way to do analog.

**Ultimist** · 04-21-2009, 05:40 AM

Originally Posted by harmony gardens

$3.75.

I bought a Top o Matic injector and made my own after the last increase. Even with this latest tax hit, if you get 500 smokes from a pound of bulk tobacco at $50 a lb and $2.75 a box for tubes, it comes to about $2.70 a pack to make your own.

Making your own still is the most economical way to do analog.

Edited: Yeah, the recent tax hike added something like $24.00 PER POUND to the price of roll your own tobacco.