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WOW! Your cigs are cheap. Over here in the UK the cheapest cigs are just over £4 for 20 ($8) rising to £5.60 ($10+) for 20 depending where you shop. Some places charge over £5 ($12). Our government rakes off about 84% in tax off every pack of 20.
Same goes for the price of petrol and diesel. Diesel has now risen to £1.35 a litre ($2.50) - £6.23 per gallon with unleaded petrol only a couple of pence behind.
Many people are now living below the poverty line as wages, instead of going up to correspond with the increased rise in the cost of living, have actually fallen. Many people are living below the poverty line in the UK now.
If we could get out of this country we would but like many others we're struggling to make ends meet.
Then, to make people even more miserable, we've got a complete blanket ban on smoking in public places. For me the e-cig's been a Godsend. I've only been using mine for a week but it's saved me so much money already - and I can smoke it anywhere. People who have seen my one, want one too.
Great invention and I hope they continue to improve.
LOL A 25 pack of smokes here are $13 CAD. I quit 5 years ago because of cost and the fact it was helping to kill me a little each smoke. I puff with a Ruyan e-cigar now and love it. 0mg nic. of course.. at least for now.
Yeah, but that's Canadian dollars. Not like real money, or anything.
JUST KIDDING!!!
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I had a guy ask me for a smoke a few days ago, I wasn't vaping or smoking, just stood at a bus stop. I try to be generous, so I said yes, and then remembered I don't smoke anymore. I offered him a few draws on my ecig, but he didn't seem interested.
Wow, this thread is a zombie! It was started in 08 and is now alive again after 5 years! 
Its an ongoing issue, the bumming of smokes in public places ...
At a bus or train station, the aggressive requst for a smoke is often the opening gambit for soliciting a "donation". Often its an offer to "buy" a cigarette for a dollar, then the plea to return the dollar with another for a meal or medication, or something ...
You get no assistance from security guards or transit police, just a stern warning not to smoke on the premises ...
Yet another reason to stealth vape ...
At a bus or train station, the aggressive requst for a smoke is often the opening gambit for soliciting a "donation". Often its an offer to "buy" a cigarette for a dollar, then the plea to return the dollar with another for a meal or medication, or something ...
You get no assistance from security guards or transit police, just a stern warning not to smoke on the premises ...
Yet another reason to stealth vape ...
I work with a few people who chronically would want to bum cigs from me. So the look on their faces since I am now saying I don't smoke anymore has been priceless. And the look I get from passerbys in the smoking area (work in a hospital so i still sometimes go there in between my vape-in-the-bathroom vape times) who are looking to either get a free cig or "buy" one for, oh, a dime (or whatever coin they pull out of their pocket) is even funnier. Most of the time they just look at me vaping, make a ticked off face and walk right on by.
Cigarettes here in MA are over $10 a pack. You can sometimes find generics at $9.50.
I was on a business trip a couple years ago in a city that had seen some hard times. Everywhere I went, it was multiple "Hey, can I bum a smoke" followed by "Hey, you got any money?" (often in a less-friendly tone). I stopped smoking while outside and the problem went away.
Totally sucked, though. Non-smoking hotel, couldn't smoke at the customers' or in the rental car either.
Thank God for vaping!!!!!
I was on a business trip a couple years ago in a city that had seen some hard times. Everywhere I went, it was multiple "Hey, can I bum a smoke" followed by "Hey, you got any money?" (often in a less-friendly tone). I stopped smoking while outside and the problem went away.
Totally sucked, though. Non-smoking hotel, couldn't smoke at the customers' or in the rental car either.
Thank God for vaping!!!!!
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I actually had my first experience with this the other day. Had a homeless guy come up and ask me for a smoke, I simply told him that I had recently quit. He looked confused at first until he saw the vape, then he just grinned and went "Good job, man. Wish I had one of those." and walked off. I was glad he wasn't angry about it.
Wow those are cheap! Smokes here in bc canada are 8 bucks each for cheap ones and like 80 for a carton lol
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It was frustrating enough for perfect strangers to walk up to me on break and plee for a smoke. Now I get perfect strangers asking to puff off my MVP 2 and wonder why I say no.
Why do people think it's kosher to stick them mouth on my MVP it's gross
Why do people think it's kosher to stick them mouth on my MVP it's gross
Ha... I was thinking about this recently too. I used to walk 2 blocks every morning from the train to my office, and in that space I would get asked no less than 4 or 5 times for a smoke.
But even worse are people in my social circles who are "social" smokers... and they knew I always had tobacco. It was hard for me to say no, so I generally shared and some people definitely took advantage of it.
I'm not petty or mean or selfish but the truth is if I gave away smokes to everyone who asked, my bank account would look like the national debt. What a relief that I won't be asked to furnish cigarettes for other people anymore.
But even worse are people in my social circles who are "social" smokers... and they knew I always had tobacco. It was hard for me to say no, so I generally shared and some people definitely took advantage of it.
I'm not petty or mean or selfish but the truth is if I gave away smokes to everyone who asked, my bank account would look like the national debt. What a relief that I won't be asked to furnish cigarettes for other people anymore.
Just explain nicely that you really are not into licking strangers. Works for me,,,,
I was always happy to share, but I smoked cloves. 75 percent of the time, they didn't want one. The other 25 percent of the time, I met a stealth Goth or clove enthusiast. So that was okay.
I notice this thread has been resurrected. I wonder what the price of that same pack of cigs in AZ back in 2008 is now?
Here in VA, in '08, I think they were $3.95, now they're $5.11 last time I checked, and that's from the cheapest place in town! Thank God for vaping!
Here in VA, in '08, I think they were $3.95, now they're $5.11 last time I checked, and that's from the cheapest place in town! Thank God for vaping!
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