In Las Vegas I was paying around $5.50 for a pack a Newports from the smoke shop. If I went to Walgreens they were usually on sale 2 for $9.99.

In Australia its $23 US for a pack of Dunhhill blue 25!!
ah you hit the bloody nail on the head there Susan, they know we wont quit, so lets Tax the crap out of the poor old stupid smokers! and I think this week they are going up another $3 dollars a packet!Unbelievable! No wonder the Australian government doesn't want anyone vaping. They are making too much money off of a pack of cigarettes!!

Here in Washington state, they think the same way the "other" Washington does.
$90.69 a carton ... yup $9.69 a pack.
My wife was in Olympia helping her brother out when I started vaping. She told me what she was paying for a pack of cigs there and I talked her into getting an Ego started set-up. The set-up, with two ego batteries, two clearo tanks and a charger was a little over $80 (I could have gotten locally for less than $35, but I wanted her to start getting off the cigs). It was still cheaper than a carton of cigarettes for her out there!!!