How much was your first pack of analogs

[Coastal Cowboy]

$0.55 for a pack of Marlboro Menthols circa 1977, and I walked almost two miles to get to the E-Z Store to get'em.

I switched to Reds sometime around 1984 when the base commissary ran out of greens.

The last pack I bought set me back $5.25 six weeks ago.

 

[camaro73]

I paid $0.75 a pack when I started on analogs. I told my self I would quit when they reached $1.00 a pack.

30 years later I finally quit.

 

[cashmoney]

lol like $3.50

 

[The Goo]

Around $2.75...and $4.74 right now with a tax increase of $1.60 happening July 1st.

 

[kabonk]

seems like they were 50-60¢ damn I'm old I was a very young teenager 12 or 13 but you could smoke everywhere back then and I had no trouble buying smokes at that age ether I could just say they where for my dad and they would sell them to me

 

[kabonk]

I paid $0.75 a pack when I started on analogs. I told my self I would quit when they reached $1.00 a pack.

30 years later I finally quit.

that's funny me too

 

[DPLongo22]

$.50. $11 in November 11, last purchased.

 

[gutter77]

Bout $1.15 for a pack of Camel filters. $4.89 for my last pack of Pall Mall menthol (or my wife's I should say) haven't been able to convert her yet but I'm working on it every day. She says she just wants to quit nicotine all together when she does quit. And she has quit cold turkey at least twice that I know of. She went 3 years I believe, cig free. I never did though, so I didn't help her any as for staying off of em

 

[shakeytails]

I can't remember! But I'd guess under a buck in 1985 or so. I remember gas being high at $1.25/gal. This was rural NY state- Oneonta/Delhi area.

 

[gutter77]

seems like they were 50-60¢ damn I'm old I was a very young teenager 12 or 13 but you could smoke everywhere back then and I had no trouble buying smokes at that age ether I could just say they where for my dad and they would sell them to me

Yep... I waz able to do this still in the early 90's. Dad loved it when we got our license to drive. He could send one of us to the gas station with money and get his ciggs and chew. After 16 I rarely ever even got carded for tobacco products. Wasn't until I was of age that they really started cracking down and sending minors in to various stores to try and make a "buy".

 

[gapenny]

I paid $.35 for a pack in the early 70s. Was paying $5.00 for Basic 100s 2 weeks ago.

 

[stormwench]

$0.40 cents for my first pack, $7.85 for my last

 

[Bob Chill]

First pack was around 90 cents or so but the cost of the decision to buy it can't be quantified with money. If any of us could have quantified the heavy price of the habit going in we would have run screaming from the counter. But what's 90 cents right? Or a couple bucks? Heh

The cost of my last pack is exponentially smaller than what I lost over the ensuing 20+ years because of a single bad decision.

Spending a year's salary on vape supplies still puts me in the green because you cannot put a price on the short time you have on this earth. And analogs were definitely going commit felony grand larceny on that time.

 

[Maggiemw]

I honestly don't remember the price of cigarettes when I finally started buying my own - probably around 1973 - in Canada. But I do remember that you could get subway tokens in Toronto for 4 for $1.

By the summer of 1986, a packet of Time here in Israel was 1 shekel. In mid-May 2013, the same packet of Time was 25 shekels. At today's exchange rate, $1 is about 3.50 shekels. So, from 30 cents to about $7.

It was when it finally sank into my little brain that I was going to be spending 1000 shekels a month on my 30-40 tubes of dust and ashes a day that I had a hissy fit. I discovered a generic Ego set up. My first extremely overpriced Ego cost me the equivalent of 4 packs of cigarettes, and my first 30 ml of e-liquid cost me about 2 1/2 packs. But since the first week of transition, I haven't had a cigarette and absolutely don't want one. I'm still using my first generic Ego, though it's now become a back-up to my kewl iTaste VV...

Now, if I could just stop stock-piling equipment and liquids...

 

[ThroatCandy]

Fifty cents from the Cigarette Machine in a Target store near my house. I swore I'd quit when they hit $1.00. I think I overshot the mark somewhat.

 

[oldbikeguy]

.30 before I went in the service .18 thats cents while in 1.80 a carton no wonder I ended up a 2PAD smoker

 

[DancingHeretik]

Same here. I swore I'ld quit whenever the generics reached $1.00/pack.

I don't remember what I paid for my first pack. But, I do remember when I was a kid and my mother sent me into Fedmart to buy her a pack of Winstons. They were 35 cents.

 

[Smokatrion]

It must've been like 20 cents for me back in the day, and about $4 the last time I bought one.

 

[Hazey]

I paid $1.25

 

[Pescondo]

I could have bought a house with what I spent in the last 40 years........