As an underage smoker (like 1966 and on) in a place where the stores tended to be strict about proving you were 16, I had to resort to any of several unattended vending machines (and I knew where they all were). But this meant I had to pay a bit more for a pack than I would have OTC. Maybe 45 cents instead of 40. A few years later, after I was "legal," prices had gone up a bit, and they were 52 cents a pack at the store. But I seem to recall paying $4.50 for a carton. I've lately noticed that the carton price discount (always amounting to the price of a pack or so) seems to have disappeared.
How much were cigs when you starting smoking?
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I never thought about it but I didnt expect there to be some many older people on here,wow.
$0.40 a pack!? FORTY CENTS!!
I spent $5.05 on my first pack of smokes, and I was proud to be supporting the economy! All them old-timers talkin' 'bout their "I said I'd quit if I ever had to pay more than $0.40 a pack."!! They never know how to support an economy! No respect in the older generations... *trails off in young-timer rant* ;D
Oh, and gas was $0.67 a litre (approx. $2.68CAD a gallon).
I spent $5.05 on my first pack of smokes, and I was proud to be supporting the economy! All them old-timers talkin' 'bout their "I said I'd quit if I ever had to pay more than $0.40 a pack."!! They never know how to support an economy! No respect in the older generations... *trails off in young-timer rant* ;D
Oh, and gas was $0.67 a litre (approx. $2.68CAD a gallon).
When I started in 1994, the brand names were $2 a pack. You could get a carton for $20. Now you can barely buy 3 packs for that.
What are you constituting as "old"? I didn't start smoking until 1989 when I was 23, but I do remember being the tender age of 4 or 5 and going to the store to buy my mom a pack of smokes for .25! Yeah, 4 and 5 year olds buying smokes without any note from my mom or anything. Just go into the store, ask for her brand, pick up some penny candy and happily skip on home!
Now a days , I'm surprised parents are arrested for "endangering a child" by smoking near them.
I started smoking as a teenager, and I could buy a pack for .75 cents. I remember taking a trip by bus and being shocked at the $1.50 price for cigs in the vending machine at the bus station. I bought cigs for my parents for about .40 cents per pack.
$1.10 per pack. Gas was about $1.10 a gallon. I believe this is about the price they were on base and off-base they were like 1.25-1.50 this in about '94. I remember getting them in the commissary for $8 a carton for Marlboro reds. I believe in the BX (the USAF version of the PX) they were $9 so I always got them in the commissary. This isn't exactly when I first started but fairly close and the only prices I remember clearly from way back. This was in Texas.
ummmm how do I say this without getting smacked around on the forum... I just assumed that if you could buy cigs for under 25 cents you were atleast over 50 years old.
I was 9 when I started in 1970. I was buying cartons at 13. The price per pack when I would ride my bicycle to the gas station cigarette machine was 50 cents a pack in 1973, which was when I first started buying my own cigs (as opposed to snatching singles from the peeps' packs).
BTW: The cig machine was one of those that you put your coins in a slot at the top, selected your pack from the window above the handle, and a GREAT BIG PULL on the handle and the smokes slid out at the bottom. I bet those machines are worth some big dough by now. lol
BTW: The cig machine was one of those that you put your coins in a slot at the top, selected your pack from the window above the handle, and a GREAT BIG PULL on the handle and the smokes slid out at the bottom. I bet those machines are worth some big dough by now. lol
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