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A pack of Camels or Marlboros used be $5/6 bucks a carton or 75 cents a pack outta a machine at the diner or bar

Today a pack of cheap smoke runs $7/8 pack.

Ya want Name Brand try $10 a pack

They got too "Greedy" Im quitting
 

TwoIfByTea » 27 Jul 2025, 1:10 pm » wrote: ↑

27 Jul 2025, 1:10 pm

A pack of Camels or Marlboros used be $5/6 bucks a carton or 75 cents a pack outta a machine at the diner or bar

Today a pack of cheap smoke runs $7/8 pack.

Ya want Name Brand try $10 a pack

They got too "Greedy" Im quitting

  quitting is easy … I do it all the time

they we’re around 30 cents a pack when I started 

I remember saying “if they get up to 50 cents I QUIT “   

when obomba was in office 

he put an extra $25 per pound tax on tobacco 

but not for cigars or pipe tobacco (wonder why)

the makers of tobacco put out “roll your own” tobacco, labeled as “pipe tobacco” to avoid the tax

In 2025, I still spend around $1 per pack to roll my own 

true story 

 
 

TwoIfByTea » 27 Jul 2025, 1:10 pm » wrote: ↑

27 Jul 2025, 1:10 pm

A pack of Camels or Marlboros used be $5/6 bucks a carton or 75 cents a pack outta a machine at the diner or bar

Today a pack of cheap smoke runs $7/8 pack.

Ya want Name Brand try $10 a pack

They got too "Greedy" Im quitting

I remember those days.  I also remember in 83 on post cigs were less than a dollar.

In 2019 I was in NYC with my boys and my son had to buy a pack of cigarettes.  Because of the tax in NYC the pack cost 14 bucks.  I had quit a few years earlier but I said give me one.  He asked why.  I said because I want to see what a cigarette from a 14 dollar pack taste like.

Its the taxes too..

Feds collect $1.50 a pack nowadays..

States collect $2/3 per pack in "Taxes"..

Other places Individual Counties & Municipalities slap another buck taxes each pack of cigarrettes too

The Tobbacco companies no longer run the "Specials" neither I guess they dont have too anymore today

TwoIfByTea » 27 Jul 2025, 1:10 pm » wrote: ↑

27 Jul 2025, 1:10 pm

A pack of Camels or Marlboros used be $5/6 bucks a carton or 75 cents a pack outta a machine at the diner or bar

Today a pack of cheap smoke runs $7/8 pack.

Ya want Name Brand try $10 a pack

They got too "Greedy" Im quitting

Try the ZYN pouches. 
They have helped me, in 4 weeks I've smoked maybe 2 cigs. And haven't killed anyone yet. After 42 years I thought it would be harder. Stupid me, I could have saved a lot of money. I will say it was probably easier in retirement, those external work pressures are gone.

Fuelman » 27 Jul 2025, 2:46 pm » wrote: ↑

27 Jul 2025, 2:46 pm

Try the ZYN pouches. 
They have helped me, in 4 weeks I've smoked maybe 2 cigs. And haven't killed anyone yet. After 42 years I thought it would be harder. Stupid me, I could have saved a lot of money. I will say it was probably easier in retirement, those external work pressures are gone.

I always said if I quit be doing a "Life" Stretch in Prison

When I started smoking Marlboro were 3.85 a pack. When I quick smoking they were 7.90 a pack.

Hank » 27 Jul 2025, 3:25 pm » wrote: ↑

27 Jul 2025, 3:25 pm

When I started smoking Marlboro were 3.85 a pack. When I quick smoking they were 7.90 a pack.

 

3.85?  Youngun! 

Hank » 27 Jul 2025, 3:25 pm » wrote: ↑

27 Jul 2025, 3:25 pm

When I started smoking Marlboro were 3.85 a pack. When I quick smoking they were 7.90 a pack.

Last time I really drove a truck over the road..

Down South Marlboros still $5 a pack like Kentucky or Missourri
 

A pack of smokes used to be slightly less than a gallon of gas. That was a decades-long trend.
Then the gubmint said both were bad for us...

It's all fake pricing now. Has been for a long time.