I remember my mom sending me to the store with 1.15 and a note asking them to let me buy her a pack of Kool Kings. I am not sure which is more shocking, the price or the fact that the store sold cigarettes to an 8 year old.
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Lol. Well, you had a note. I think my dad started at 11.
Also…what were pall mall greens? Menthol?
Also…what were pall mall greens? Menthol?
Yes. They were menthol. The only thing is I don't remember them being lights at the time. The last time I looked, which has been a while, Pall Mall Menthols are all lights now.
I remember my dad bragging that when he got a fillup at the local gas station, they gave him a free pack of cigs!
I was too young to smoke or drive either back then.
I was too young to smoke or drive either back then.
I remember the Raleigh Coupons you got with each pack.
We had a drawer full of them in the kitchen when I was a kid. We used to use them like pretend money.
Of course we also had candy cigarettes and Big League Chew shredded bubble gum that was packaged like chewing tobacco.
We had a drawer full of them in the kitchen when I was a kid. We used to use them like pretend money.
Of course we also had candy cigarettes and Big League Chew shredded bubble gum that was packaged like chewing tobacco.
Remember the little 4-pack of cigarettes on each first class meal tray? Yep, youngsters, not only could you smoke on an airplane, the airline even provided the cigarettes!
Now that's goin WAY back.
Now that's goin WAY back.
I've been desperate enough to smoke a .... from someone else's ashtray! But smoking through the nose...that's a new one to me. That's hard core man. Respect.
My father was looking through the pockets of his old army dress uniform from when he got out (1967) and flew home. He found two of those 4-pack of smokes that they give you when you fly. Winston's! They still have the plastic wrap and everything.
I remember paying 1.00 a carton on base or .25 a pack in vending machines. Gosh, I feel old now
1980, was travelling around as a kid and got mugged the first night in Los Angeles. Had locked my suitcase up at the bus station and was walking around downtown looking for a cheap hotel room and some guy robbed me at gunpoint. So I had to get Dad to wire me money, which took a couple days back then, two days of no place to stay or nothing to eat but at least I had smokes, bummed them from strangers. So as I think back smoking was definitely more important to me than food or shelter, no question about it.
So I've used this story over the years to try to explain to non smokers how powerful this addiction is. It took until 2012 for me to break it in fact.
So I've used this story over the years to try to explain to non smokers how powerful this addiction is. It took until 2012 for me to break it in fact.
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Same here.
Although I actually enjoyed the unfiltered soft pack pall malls before I found a steady supply of Lucky Strikes. Now, I'm avoiding that gas station because they kept them in stock just for me, and I'm wondering how ...... off they are that I quit.
I remember paying 1.00 a carton on base or .25 a pack in vending machines. Gosh, I feel old now
Heh…yeah…I missed those days. My first pack of Lucky Strikes was like $2.50, but that's because they'd been there for a while and the gas station didn't know what they were……they adjusted quickly.
I remember talking to somebody who quit when prices got ridiculous for him……but he started when LS were 24 cents a pack and the company packaged a penny in each one so the gas station attendants could take a quarter and not have to make change.
And back then the military was even nice enough to include them in C-Rats , I think to kill the taste of the other items in the box... times sure have changed.
I guess I'm pretty old for the crowd around here too, because I remember being extremely peeved when Marlboros went to $5 a carton.
Now thats funny... one time I was almost quit, and a cig sales man was giving 5 packs away in front of a store.
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