Cost of analogs when you started smoking !
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Very true, but I believe in conspiracies, lol. I believe that it gets shared with BT. Government or BT..... same thing in my book.
I would make my posts more descriptive, but I'm always at work when I'm on these forums, so I'm strapped for time.
I started smoking at 12 (ugh) 1981ish, used to buy cigarettes in 10's for 47.5p and a book of matches would be 2.5p making a nice round 50p - 80c using todays conversion to USD. However we also used to be able to buy single cigarettes which was useful when you didn't have enough for a full packet, those went for 5-10p each depending on brand which was a lucky dip depending on the shop owner - anyway $1.60 using current exchange rates for a pack of 20.
I started back in 2000 and they were about $2.75 a pack here. By 2004, they were $5.25, then I moved to south Florida in 2005 and paid $26/carton ($2.60/pack). When I came back here in 2008, they were $5.85, and now they're over $6. Ridiculous. lol
Vaping is so awesome. I could get a new atomizer every week and vape constantly and still spend less money, all while NOT killing myself.
Vaping is so awesome. I could get a new atomizer every week and vape constantly and still spend less money, all while NOT killing myself.
Yep, remember those days very well. Two channels on the TV ( channel 3 & 12 ) - both black and white - both signed off at midnight with the National Anthem. One picture show in town -- one day a week - ( Saturday ) matinee at 1:00 for .25 and somewhere around 8:00 pm for the feature at .50.
Myself - I miss the heck out those days. Life was a lot slower and simpler back then ! The little town I lived in - heck you couldn't get in trouble. We rode horses down main street and parked them at the meters. All we did was go fishing, swimming, and ride horses - at least until we started chasing the girls in town !
Thats what got me as well...in HS chewing was the norm for guys, never really smoked much until I joined the Navy in 89. Then smokes were less than $10 a carton in the Exchange and smokers got to run off to the 'special room' that was in every building and light up while those that didn't had to do some form of busywork or wait for us to come back. They were always very accommodating to smokers, it was advantageous to be one back then. When on deployments overseas, they had whats called the Sea Store where cartons of cigs were often 1/2 to 1/4 the cost from back in the states so we would load up and sell them back home.
Being on submarines and a smoker was not an easy thing either, there were times that the atmosphere control equipment would break down or some other problem that the "smoking lamp" would be out meaning no smoking onboard and half the crew smoked. Talk about a grumpy group of people. One deployment I made, we went under the polar ice cap for a few months and this once happened for over a week straight. People were literally freaking out, fighting, sneaking smokes hoping not to get caught, removing the tobacco from a cig to turn it into chew...8-o
My son's active duty US Navy stationed on a destroyer at Nofolk. He re-deploys back to the Middle East for the 3rd time in March. I got him on e-cigs a while back and so far - he's not having any problems with his higher ups on the ship - they questioned him the first time and he told them what it was - they were cool with it, so - so far, so good.
He went through Navy Culinary School - ( the boy loves to cook ) he's an E-5 now after being in only a little over 3 yrs and is over the entire galley - he's doing pretty darn good - heck, I was in during Vietnam ( USAF ) - I was discharged after 4 yrs as an E-4 ( Buck Sgt ) that was about as high a rank you could get back then in under 4 yrs. Things have changed a great deal since I was in ! He's undecided on if he's staying in or getting out - he likes it and is having a pretty good time. Myself, I hated the crap out of it - but then, like I said it was a different time back then. The military was fine as long as I was overseas somewhere - being in the states was terrible - it was just the way society was at that time - very anti EVERYTHING !
I dont really remeber how much analogs were. I started back in the early eighties. I think they were just under a buck.
Wow, some of you are antiques.
If I remember correctly, they were about 35c out of a vending machine. Gas was around the same price.
My mother bought my first car for me when I graduated high school. We didn't have much money, so I got a '55 Buick Special that she paid $25 for. I believe it had a 352 in it, and it would move. I got 6 mpg with it and replaced the oil with used oil from the gas station. It was a real bomb, but it was mine. And no, it certainly wasn't a chick magnet. I put a bumper sticker on it that read "sex relieves tension". What makes that kind of humorous is, the previous owner was a chiropractor.
Here is how innovative desparate smokers can be. A few years ago, I worked as a part time jailor at the county lockup. When I did a sneaky cell check, I came across an inmate smoking. When confronted, he told me it was dried apple peelings rolled up in toilet paper. To light it, he had taken the AA batteries out of a portable radio they were allowed to have at the time, and connected them to some wire and inserted the wire into an outlet and managed to get a spark. Anyway, that was his story. Actually, I was quite impressed.
If I remember correctly, they were about 35c out of a vending machine. Gas was around the same price.
My mother bought my first car for me when I graduated high school. We didn't have much money, so I got a '55 Buick Special that she paid $25 for. I believe it had a 352 in it, and it would move. I got 6 mpg with it and replaced the oil with used oil from the gas station. It was a real bomb, but it was mine. And no, it certainly wasn't a chick magnet.
I put a bumper sticker on it that read "sex relieves tension". What makes that kind of humorous is, the previous owner was a chiropractor. Here is how innovative desparate smokers can be. A few years ago, I worked as a part time jailor at the county lockup. When I did a sneaky cell check, I came across an inmate smoking. When confronted, he told me it was dried apple peelings rolled up in toilet paper. To light it, he had taken the AA batteries out of a portable radio they were allowed to have at the time, and connected them to some wire and inserted the wire into an outlet and managed to get a spark. Anyway, that was his story. Actually, I was quite impressed.
I started smoking in 1959, in New York City, and the price of a pack was 13 cents.
My first car was a 1948 Buick Roadmaster straight eight which I purchased used for $40.00. Instead of power steering we used 'ARMSTRONG POWER". My first New car was a 1965 Pontiac Catalina with a 389 and gas was 23 cents a gallon. You could drive all day for $2.00.
My first car was a 1948 Buick Roadmaster straight eight which I purchased used for $40.00. Instead of power steering we used 'ARMSTRONG POWER". My first New car was a 1965 Pontiac Catalina with a 389 and gas was 23 cents a gallon. You could drive all day for $2.00.
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