Poll: Highest price you ever paid for a pack of smokes...
- Thread starter Ultimist
- Start date
- th_trl_thread_readers 0
- Status
When I was in the army we would have field problems were we would be out in the field for two to three weeks at a time. You left with a rucksack and all you could put in it and got MRE's and water but that was it.
I would always take an extra carton of smokes and hump them along with me till close to the end. There were always a bunch of people who would NEVER bring enough and we called them the bum junkies. After a while the bum junkies would get cut off and come to me. Sometimes I would auction off packs they would go for around $25 and up and this was for generics that I bought at the PX for $5 a carton. The last day I would auction off individual smokes the highest I ever got for one cig was $15.
If you think that is cruel I could tell you some of the other stories we played on the bum junkies.
I would always take an extra carton of smokes and hump them along with me till close to the end. There were always a bunch of people who would NEVER bring enough and we called them the bum junkies. After a while the bum junkies would get cut off and come to me. Sometimes I would auction off packs they would go for around $25 and up and this was for generics that I bought at the PX for $5 a carton. The last day I would auction off individual smokes the highest I ever got for one cig was $15.
If you think that is cruel I could tell you some of the other stories we played on the bum junkies.
Back when normal premium brands were around $1.25 a pack, I used to occasionally treat myself to some Nat Shermans, which cost about twice as much. Even bought a few cartons for what seemed like a pricey $25 or so. That was more than 25 years ago. I just did a little Googling and found them now selling for $12 a pack (actually $60.50 for five packs). So they're still roughly double. (edit: the longest cigarettes I ever bought were also Nat Shermans, 200mm Fantasias.)
I stopped buying single packs when a convenience store shocked me with $5 for a pack of More Reds years ago. Then, I stopped buying cartons locally and went to the Ukraine for the last few years I smoked cigarettes. When the outrageous taxation forces hordes of people to quit or to find alternatives, they will have killed the goose that laid the golden egg. They'll have to find another sin tax to take its place.
I stopped buying single packs when a convenience store shocked me with $5 for a pack of More Reds years ago. Then, I stopped buying cartons locally and went to the Ukraine for the last few years I smoked cigarettes. When the outrageous taxation forces hordes of people to quit or to find alternatives, they will have killed the goose that laid the golden egg. They'll have to find another sin tax to take its place.
Last edited:
Back when normal premium brands were around $1.25 a pack, I used to occasionally treat myself to some Nat Shermans, which cost about twice as much. Even bought a few cartons for what seemed like a pricey $25 or so. That was more than 25 years ago. I just did a little Googling and found them now selling for $12 a pack (actually $60.50 for five packs). So they're still roughly double.
I stopped buying single packs when a convenience store shocked me with $5 for a pack of More Reds years ago. Then, I stopped buying cartons locally and went to the Ukraine for the last few years I smoked cigarettes. When the outrageous taxation forces hordes of people to quit or to find alternatives, they will have killed the goose that laid the golden egg. They'll have to find another sin tax to take its place.
When they first stuck the huge tax on, I ordered online cigs from Kentucky for less than a dollar a pack. Then they told everyone that if they got caught they would have to pay back taxes of about $3 a pack. So I started to do the RYO (roll your own) then they increased the tax on them by over 400%. It was based on weight so the RYO guys started making dryer tobacco and it was bad and still more expensive. So I was looking on the RYO forum and someone was talking about E-cigs.
End of story.
Last edited by a moderator:
I just looked at the poll results and 54 people paid $12 or over for ONE pack. Now that is HARD core!!!! WOW
here in Alberta, Canada - regular brands are around 13$, while the cheap brands are 10$
They hiked up the taxes on it pretty steep pretty quickly too.
They hiked up the taxes on it pretty steep pretty quickly too.
A little over $8.00 at 7-11's for one pack of Capri. Larger stores $70.00 per carton. Capri cigarettes. This was the only kind of cigarette I would smoke before I started vaping.
I am now helping my health and saving a bundle of money too.
SMOKE FREE FOR 6 MONTHS 3 WEEKS AND 4 DAYS
I am now helping my health and saving a bundle of money too.
SMOKE FREE FOR 6 MONTHS 3 WEEKS AND 4 DAYS
I once paid 10.00 at disneyland for a pack of smokes. (yes.. they did sell them years ago.)
Increased taxes here in Australia (especially NSW) mean that your average pack of 25 smokes is $16+
The AUD/USD exchange rate is pretty much 1 to 1 at the moment, so that makes smoking expensive however you look at it!
When I started smoking (about 8 years ago) I could get a pack of 20 for $6.80. That's either a heck of a lot of inflation, or someone's making a mint on those taxes!
The AUD/USD exchange rate is pretty much 1 to 1 at the moment, so that makes smoking expensive however you look at it!
When I started smoking (about 8 years ago) I could get a pack of 20 for $6.80. That's either a heck of a lot of inflation, or someone's making a mint on those taxes!
Back in the early 1980s, I think I was paying about $1.25 a pack for More Reds 120s. I'd occasionally treat myself to a pack or two of Nat Shermans, including sometimes the incredibly long Fantasia 200mm multicolored things. 25+ years ago, they cost approximately double the going rate for normal premium cigarettes (~$2.50/pack). I know Nat Sherman is still in business (god knows how) but I don't think they make those 200mm cigarettes any more. I shudder to think what NS charges for their smokes today, LOL.
used to pay $10 a pack (after the most recent tax increase on Long Island), it was between $8 and $10 for a while before that. But i've paid up to $14 for a pack in NYC.
now i spend maybe 70 cents a day?
now i spend maybe 70 cents a day?
Yea the $8 price tag is why I swapped to vaping, I can get two weeks worth of juice for that price now, it's insane.
- Status
Similar threads
