WAAAYYYY Off topic - cigarettes
I was putting gas in my car yesterday and I noticed a sign advertising the price of a pack of Marlboro cigarettes. They were $10 a pack. I don't smoke so I don't pay much attention to those prices but this is the first I have seen of $10 a pack. I have noticed $9.50 or so for a while here in Western New York. How much is a pack of cigarettes in your town and were is that? I can't imagine how much of that is tax. I am also pretty sure that doesn't include the sales tax.
Mark
WAAAYYYY Off topic - cigarettes
I don't smoke anymore, but in Missouri a pack of Marlboros will run about 4.90 before sales tax.
I quit smoking back when I could buy a carton for $2.
Don't really keep up with it but sometimes see the ads and laugh at smokers.
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Sincerely,
Hobie
10 bucks a pack....
should be plenty of emphasis, for anyone, to stop smoking.
10 bucks a pack....
my job puts me in retail establishments all day. I see people buying a carton at WAWA for 80+ dollars and I can't believe they choose to trap themselves with a habit that not only cost so much but is so bad for them. I had a neighbor that always complained that he was always broke. I told him if he and his wife quit there 5 pack a day habit that would be enough for a car payment at 7 bucks a pack. he laughed at me said I was crazy. I said 7dollars times 5 a day times 7 a week x 4 weeks a month.
He did not believe me I did the math in front of him and it was $980.00 a month. His wife was 2 packs a day he was 2 packs a day and he bought his teenage daughter 1 pack a day. He couldn't believe that it cost that much. I wondered how someone could spend that much money and not realize it , I see the same with scratch off lottery tickets. People spend 60 to 100 a day on scratch offs. 20 dollar tickets and they buy them 2-3 a time every day. But they are the people who think we are nuts shooting a rifle at a buck a shot. J.Michael
Rollin' rollin'
I roll my own for $1.00 a pack. I quit buying storeboughts when they passed $2.25.
JLF
I got upset about the price
when a pack of cigarettes went from 30 cents to 35 cents in a machine and that is when I quit. Sure glad I did.
Close enough to the reservation....
There are plenty of reservations around western NY to get cigarettes cheaper so alot of people probably don't pay $10 a pack. Everyone I know smokes Seneca's from the Indians. They are cheap and smell like it when they are smoking them!!!!
I quit 10 years ago and me and my wife said we would never smoke cheap cigarettes. I liked Marlboro and that is what I always would smoke. The only time I miss it now is turkey hunting first thing in the AM waiting for the first bird to fire off.
Rollin' rollin'
I quit when they hit a buck a pack. I can't imagine affording them now. A friend rolls his own and told me that you actually get a much cleaner cigarette, with fewer chemicals if you roll your own, and that the taxes are less on bulk tobacco than for pre-made cigarettes.
$5 nt
nt
Still kill you just as dead though....
NM.
Yep.
I use fresh North Carolina terbacky with no addatives. El-cheapo storeboughts are imports with Lord only knows what in them, and they still cost over $5.00 a pack.
JLF
Yep.
So does breathing, kills every one of us stone dead. Some sooner than others.
JLF
Close enough to the reservation....
I ordered NY reservation smokes for years. Then the feds passed a law outlawing shipment of cigarettes through the post office, or UPS/FEDEX. Last time I checked the web sites they were $2.50 a pack and up.
JLF
WAAAYYYY Off topic - cigarettes
Even at $5 a pack, I still feel bad for those folks who smoke. It is their health and their choice to smoke. They shouldn't be taxed into or out of making a choice. The government gave them the info on the health risks. It is up to the end user to do with that information as they see fit.
Mark
The smokers fund a science camp here in Fairbanks, and
they have for the past 2 or 3 decades. It's the RJ Reynolds Science Camp, or some such, and kids try hard to get into it every summer. It's their way of trying to put a good face on the cigarette industry.