How much did a pack of cigarettes coast when you started and how much when you switched?

[mgunnell]

About $1.75 when I started and $7.60 when I quit 9 days ago.

 

[Elementz]

$3.00 a pack when I first started. Cost about $11-$12 when I quit in 2012.

 

[c-fut]

$2.00 a pack when I started 20 years ago and now is almost $6.00.

 

[Ripshod]

OMG what a thought. When I started it was 70pence for a pack of 20. Nowadays 20 of the same brand is like £7.69. Flippin' eck!!

 

[jjordan]

Around a dollar when I started back in the early 90's and paid $4.10 for my last pack over two months ago

 

[Jim Davis]

I remember when they were 12 cents a pack, but at the same time, I had a pretty good job @ 75 cents per hour.

 

[autobiogphnation]

About $4 when I started almost 10 years ago. Last year it was about $8 when I quit. Just outside of Chicago.

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[lightbud404]

I remember when they were 12 cents a pack, but at the same time, I had a pretty good job @ 75 cents per hour.

may I ask what year that was?

 

[Mutescream]

When I started... About 90ish cents... When I quit, about 5.50. But, in MA... When I left there a couple years ago, 8.50 a pack. So freakin glad to be out of Worcester.

 

[Jim Davis]

may I ask what year that was?

Mid 1960's. A new car was about $3000.00.

 

[sunnymw]

My brand was $4 when I started and $5.45 when I quit.

 

[Tom Servo]

Just under a dollar in 1989, when I started. I remember griping when they went over $10/carton.

Now? Over six dollars a pack.

 

[choochoogranny]

25 cents for Marlboro in 1960 in Florida at local 7-11. $4.85 at tobacco shop in GA bought by the carton no name brand. Huge tax increases the last 10 years, but also inflation has a way of adding up. Loaf of bread back then was 25 cents, for day old bread 10 cents.

 

[cocacola31173]

I think they were 1.50 a pack when I started in 89...I used to save my lunch money!

Funny story when I used to smoke I was a casino playing slots...I was beside a woman whose machine was hitting like crazy..her tray was full and she had buckets of quarters around her. She ran out of cigarettes and wasn't about to give up the machine. She asked me for one and when I gave it to her she reached into her tray and put a big handful of quarters in mine. She asked several more times and did the same thing. When I left I gave her a few more. She probably gave me well over 50 dollars for about 7 cigarettes!

Thats nearly 8 bucks a cig! WOW!

 

[-mj01-]

$1.25 when I started. I swore that I'd quit if they ever exceeded $3 though I didn't follow through on that statement until they were $6.28.

 

[a wandering soul]

For eight bucks I could get a pack of smokes and some gum to covermy breath so my mom wouldn't catch me!

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[Cirrusx1]

CassiusCloud sounds like we're about the same age and from the same area! I remember them being about 50 cents around '77. I was buying them in Wheeling IL. They're just under $7.00 now.