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The smokers fund a science camp here in Fairbanks, and (reply)

AkRay — Mon, 09 Sep 2013 05:42:22 +0000

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.

WAAAYYYY Off topic - cigarettes (reply)

Mark — Sun, 08 Sep 2013 21:14:55 +0000

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

Close enough to the reservation.... (reply)

JLF — Sun, 08 Sep 2013 17:46:15 +0000

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

Yep. (reply)

JLF — Sun, 08 Sep 2013 17:41:02 +0000

So does breathing, kills every one of us stone dead. Some sooner than others.

JLF

Yep. (reply)

JLF — Sun, 08 Sep 2013 17:39:10 +0000

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

Still kill you just as dead though.... (reply)

woody — Sun, 08 Sep 2013 17:05:11 +0000

NM.

$5 nt (reply)

passin'by — Sun, 08 Sep 2013 15:17:28 +0000

Rollin' rollin' (reply)

anachronism — Sun, 08 Sep 2013 13:35:06 +0000

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.

Close enough to the reservation.... (reply)

woody — Sun, 08 Sep 2013 12:31:14 +0000

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.

I got upset about the price (reply)

Charles — Sat, 07 Sep 2013 20:33:08 +0000

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.

Rollin' rollin' (reply)

JLF — Sat, 07 Sep 2013 19:53:19 +0000

I roll my own for $1.00 a pack. I quit buying storeboughts when they passed $2.25.

JLF

10 bucks a pack.... (reply)

uncowboy — Sat, 07 Sep 2013 14:46:18 +0000

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

10 bucks a pack.... (reply)

Bud — Sat, 07 Sep 2013 14:01:22 +0000

should be plenty of emphasis, for anyone, to stop smoking.

I quit smoking back when I could buy a carton for $2. (reply)

Hobie — Sat, 07 Sep 2013 12:57:45 +0000

Don't really keep up with it but sometimes see the ads and laugh at smokers.

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Jhenry — Sat, 07 Sep 2013 12:26:31 +0000

I don't smoke anymore, but in Missouri a pack of Marlboros will run about 4.90 before sales tax.

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Mark — Sat, 07 Sep 2013 11:55:34 +0000

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