Funny you should mention that. I ran around with a guy that said the same thing and by golly the day we pulled up to the gas station and the attendant asked for more than a dollar he never bought another pack and quit.
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Yep - It was 1st a Dollar a pack - then it was $2 - Then $3 - Then $4 - Then $5 . . . I guess Ya' know where I'm going with this . . . But, then it was traveling to another state (2 - 3 hour drive 1 way), because they were cheaper by the carton & No Tax - Got 8+ at a time and a few cartons for friends . . . AND - Of course, to the Reservations too (even less expensive) . . . Just Sayin' . . .
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The first pack I bought was 75 cents from a machine. I think they were closer to 60 cents if when bought in a real store. That was in 1977, the summer after my first year in college, which cost ~$7000 all in (tuition, room, board, books, etc). Today, a year at the same school would cost close to $60k all in. It's the same with everything else. A car, a house, a gallon of milk, a tank of gas, a pound of meat, a loaf of bread; they all cost somewhere between five and ten five times what they cost then. Bottom line, the price of cigs hasn't gone up that much more than everything else except in the really high-tax jurisdictions.
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I did the same thing, quit on the spot, I was finished, cold turkey. Around thirty-six hours later, I resumed smoking.
A similar process went on some where around a thousand times as I found the newest, latest, greatest stop smoking method and latched on to it. Until I discovered vaping.
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I remember 50 cents a pack back in 78 in Virginia (tobacco country), and around 25 cents a pack onboard the ship as soon as you got outside of US territorial waters where there was no tax.
When I started hitting the pub in 66 you could get a pint and a 10 pack of Number 6 for 2 shillings. Number 6 were small horrible cigs. The only thing worse was Number 10.
I bet you that Number 2 stinks and tastes like crap.
Number 2? I can't even remember Number 2. If they were worse than Number 10 maybe I had therapy to erase the memory.
Might be useful if your wife makes her Pig's Feet & Lima Bean Casserole and you want to get the taste out of your mouth.
When I ran a vending route a city tax carton was $5 and kings were $5.25 from the distributor. IIRC 75 cents was what we had the vending machines set at except bars which were a dollar. (Captive audience) Funny, thinking back that we had both food and cigarette machines in the hospital back then. I also remember that distinctive clunk when counting and rolling change signaled to put your own coin in place of the silver one.
Back on topic, another uneventful week from the Whitehouse. Think they figured out to let sleeping dogs lie and let the looming Deeming do its thing?
Back on topic, another uneventful week from the Whitehouse. Think they figured out to let sleeping dogs lie and let the looming Deeming do its thing?
I think between Congress and Trudeau cracking jokes accidental on an open mike we moved down the attention span list for the moment.
But Hahn passed committee and will be confirmed as FDA Commissioner by the end of the year so deeming will probably move front and center after that.
I started smoking in the 70s, don't remember the cost/pack. When I moved to So Florida there were the Indian reservations. In the early 80s cartons were $2.50. My mother would come to visit and go back to Chicago with about 10 cartons.
I remember buying cartons of Marlboro on the army base when I was in for $8. That was around 1990. I’m still buying them for my wife who won’t switch to vaping. They are about $50 a carton here.
Just got this from Texas Select Vapor. I heard about this one but didn't realise it was so close.
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URGENT Call To Action!
S 1253, which is the Senate version of HR 3942, is being fast-tracked through the committee. This bill would prohibit the U.S. Postal Service from accepting packages of vapor products. This means that your packages will have to be shipped through UPS, which will cost (on average) about $18 per shipment. This bill also adds vaping products to state tobacco taxation and reporting requirements. This bill will make these products (and shipments) much more expensive. We need you to send a message to the Senator urging him to remove his endorsement from this bill.
The time to act is NOW!
This bill may be passed as early as next week. Please click the link below to send an email to the Senator's office urging him to stop. It will take one minute or less to complete. If you care about your access to vapor products, please do it.
I finally got 2 more liters of Nic today, I figured out that over the last 6 years I have gone threw almost 2 liters from my first order, I only have a few 100 ML bottles left of the first order. I didn't really need it, because I stock piled it back then, but I figure I might as well replace what I have used. I will need to re-bottle it, but I can do that later. 
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Stop talking like old geezers! You over 60 lot! A) the husband is 55 and still SMOKING what will I do with him? I don't got much LEFT!
Basics, though. A whole year of basics in college. Taste is not that important. I believe we had a 15 year roof on our mobile home and it most definitely needed re-roofing but with that said it cost like 4 K which strikes me as SUPER CHEAP for a roof. We used a Christian Roofing Company for the Crack house back east and it was like a 25 year roof (I was like, why not I am never moving again) if only I knew and it was over 10 K and a smaller roof.
Somehow the husband and like the Christian roofing guy got into lottery tickets and if it was gambling. I like to think it was a sort of sacrament and de-cursing all at the same time....
But 60 is TERRIFYINGLY old and in a scant 4-ish years I will be doing things I could have sworn I would NEVER do with a 60 year old.
To be fair, I have my doubts that the dewy faced little sixteen year olds who encounter me in the gas station are not like, "That is a hot piece of granny, oh insert whatever body part-- elbow," like they are NOT thinking that.
Also, it's GROSS. I hated that movie about the eccentric 18 year old who fell in love with his grandmother and I have seen it more than ONCE. That is just CRIMINAL.
Also ask Anton K and Demi M how that turned out. You don't WANT to be the older woman plastic surgery can only do so much.
Sometimes when I look in my bathroom mirror I see what I looked like at age 6 and wonder if I am slowly morphing back to that, or if I'm getting the big A.
There's a poem in there somewhere but not today.
But no more old fogey stuff! At least tonight. I am stocked, embarrassingly so and the final count down can come. I will fight the fight. But it can come. Last nic being glass bottled THIS weekend.
Basics, though. A whole year of basics in college. Taste is not that important. I believe we had a 15 year roof on our mobile home and it most definitely needed re-roofing but with that said it cost like 4 K which strikes me as SUPER CHEAP for a roof. We used a Christian Roofing Company for the Crack house back east and it was like a 25 year roof (I was like, why not I am never moving again) if only I knew and it was over 10 K and a smaller roof.
Somehow the husband and like the Christian roofing guy got into lottery tickets and if it was gambling. I like to think it was a sort of sacrament and de-cursing all at the same time....
But 60 is TERRIFYINGLY old and in a scant 4-ish years I will be doing things I could have sworn I would NEVER do with a 60 year old.
To be fair, I have my doubts that the dewy faced little sixteen year olds who encounter me in the gas station are not like, "That is a hot piece of granny, oh insert whatever body part-- elbow," like they are NOT thinking that.
Also, it's GROSS. I hated that movie about the eccentric 18 year old who fell in love with his grandmother and I have seen it more than ONCE. That is just CRIMINAL.
Also ask Anton K and Demi M how that turned out. You don't WANT to be the older woman plastic surgery can only do so much.
Sometimes when I look in my bathroom mirror I see what I looked like at age 6 and wonder if I am slowly morphing back to that, or if I'm getting the big A.
There's a poem in there somewhere but not today.
But no more old fogey stuff! At least tonight. I am stocked, embarrassingly so and the final count down can come. I will fight the fight. But it can come. Last nic being glass bottled THIS weekend.
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