Do you remember when?

[SolemnPenguin]

I remember walking through the shopping mall chain smoking as a teenager. They don't even have ashtrays outside and more!

Last week I was vaping away in the mall. It felt like old times.

 

[Hibiscuits]

I remember when you could smoke in school...

 

[Xpoint]

I can tell when i was young i tried to quit the analogs tear a hole pack of cigs and after 2-3 hours came back to the place i throw them and start to collect that's left on the floor and to smoke them - shame on me....

 

[jvc1167]

I remember going to the gas station and telling them i was getting cigs for my mom and they would sell them to you.

 

[vap3d70]

I recall when smoking a cigarette wasn't the price of admission to a leper colony.

I remember with precision seeing Andy Taylor (AKA Andy Griffith, rest his soul) smoking a cigarette; a simple pleasure then, not the ultimate evil it's become.

I remember Walt disney intros with Walt chain smoking through the whole bit...

 

[SolemnPenguin]

I remember going to the gas station and telling them i was getting cigs for my mom and they would sell them to you.

Was that before or after they started putting them behind the counter. I think the first pack I got I swiped off the floor display in the corner gas station.

 

[Byrnesc1]

When I was a broke college student and smoking a pack a day, I often found myself rifling through couch cushions for change to scrounge together to get a pouch of RYO tobacco. With tobacco prices on the rise in the Northeast US I'm glad that I've made the switch. A pouch of Drum or Bugler used to be $2.11 in philadelphia but they raised it to $4 which is beyond the change I could find in my couch.

 

[Jixchel]

I remember being 13 and buying smokes for my 18 year old aunt (this was when you had to be 16 to buy). My aunt had a baby face, she was still being carded at the age of 35 to buy smokes. This was the same aunt who got me started smoking, and gave me alcohol..... I was 15 or 16 before I realized just how bad of an influence she was. She is 47 now and still acts like she is 15.

 

[MrsTazz]

I remember my husband having to run out to get me a pack of cigarettes before he went to work at 5 am.....counting up change from the bottom of my purse to have enough for a pack....and of course, the old ....-hunt through the ash tray hoping one of us left a decent sized cigarette stub. How about the last cigarette in the pack that ended up breaking before you could smoke it?

 

[DC2]

I remember doing all of the things listed in this poll...
http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/polls/91466-seriously-how-many-you-have-done.html

 

[MiamiMom63]

That's why I used to dunk my packs in water before I threw them out!

Then I'm glad you weren't my neighbor, Durgidog. LOL.

I actually was so addicted to analogs that I made sure I never ran out and bought a carton a week. I only stole from my neighbors porch ashtray when I was trying to quit.

 

[tazz]

I also remember when Marlboro would send me a birthday card every year not so long ago.

 

[mostapha]

I remember my dad getting "rewards catalogs" from Camel and birthday cards.

Rewards programs on cigarettes became illegal before I developed a brand preference……probably before I started smoking now that I think about it.

 

[The Duke]

I loved these.

 

[mostapha]

Yeah…that brings back memories.

 

[Underwhelmed]

And to think, they also sold vitamins for kids-

 

[Underwhelmed]

 

[Underwhelmed]

 

[bmrdave]

I remember when I was a kid my dad giving me a dollar to go to the 7-11 to buy him a pack of Pall Mall greens. I would ride my bike up there, no one ever asked me if they were for my dad and I would buy a Three Musketeers bar with the change.

 

[AttyPops]

I can remember when I was a younger Lad and as broke as could be jonesing for a smoke. I would be driving along only to find my pack was empty so I'd pull the car over and search high and low for that one cigarette that I knew that I had dropped between the seats and when I found it, boy was it old and nasty but I would smoke it. Now I'm going 19 days analog free and can't believe I ever smoked as much as I did.

Yeah, and cigs were $0.75 cents a pack then.

Welcome to ECF. Glad you found vaping, hope it keeps you off the stinkies.