How much were cigarettes when you started?

[MHasegawa]

Today they cost about $6.00, when I started around age 13-14 they were $2.50. How about you guys?

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[A.J.]

A buck and change.

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[FUNKMAN]

never started...

tried but coughed my brains out... more money for weed and beers

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[reeshy]

75 cents!!!!

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[JohnnyCash]

I never started either but I know when I was 14 or 15, they were cheap enough for all of my friends to buy and we never had any cash.

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[Yerdaddy]

buck O five

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[DreamWeaver]

$2.00.

$5.00 at the Mobil could get you a pack of butts and a little more than a 1/2 tank of gas.

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[blakjeezis]

Premium brands were 2 bucks a pack, generic anywhere from $1.30 to $1.50. I remember being 13, getting my $5 allowance on a Friday night, buying a pack of smokes then giving the remains to my friend's neighbor to drive down to Boogie Town to get a couple of 40's or a six of Old Milwaukee. Or the old standby was to eat a bag of chips for lunch every day during the week and save the change for the Friday/Saturday night revels. Ah well, you can't go back again.

Oh man, any kids I have are getting locked in trunks until they're 25.

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[Johnathan H Christ]

1.75 from the machine in taco amigo in sterling VA. shining memories from middle school.

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[angrymissy]

$2.00. And if I was desperate, generic brands were like $1.25/$1.50... ah the good old days.

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[JPMNICK]

$2.00.

$5.00 at the Mobil could get you a pack of butts and a little more than a 1/2 tank of gas.



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[Evilpete]

didn't cost me a thing...just stole them from relatives!!!!

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[FUNKMAN]

i remember when the corner store would sell one cigarrette called 'lucies or maybe loosies' for a nickel...


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[ag]

2.50 I remember buying a pack of both Malboro and Newports. Now they're about 3.34 by me, which is still good considering It was over 5 in NY

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[Skellington]

when i was 14 they were $.90 a pack for marlboro..... now they are $2.69/pack if your buy 3 packs or more..........

But now different counties in Northern VA are adding on uber taxes...so who knows. DC is up to like $5-$6/pack.....

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[Zipgun]

Most places were about $1.25, but at a deli by my house, for $1.50 you got a pack of smokes and a free lighter.


$5.00 at the Mobil could get you a pack of butts and a little more than a 1/2 tank of gas.



Don't forget your free glass too!


I lived in Toms River. For five bucks, you got a pack of smokes and enough gas to get you to West Long Branch to act pretentious and drink overpriced coffee at The Inkwell and smoke a lot.

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[Lumber]

$2.15

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[East Side Dave]

i remember when the corner store would sell one cigarrette called 'lucies or maybe loosies' for a nickel...




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[BrownTown]

When I started at 11 years old they were $.75. Within a few months of my introduction to the magic of nicotine, they jumped to $1.25. I stopped when they were $5.50 back in 2000.

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[DreamWeaver]

I lived in Toms River. For five bucks, you got a pack of smokes and enough gas to get you to West Long Branch to act pretentious and drink overpriced coffee at The Inkwell and smoke a lot. I KNEW you looked familiar!

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[blakjeezis]

The Inkwell

You know you can get a free dessert or like 10% off your bill at that place with a ticket stub from the Loews at the Monmouth Mall?

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[keithy_19]

I don't smoke, but I do know that when I was going through Richmond on the way home from Disney World, the town smells so good with all the sweet tobacco.

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[reillyluck]

$2.00!

i had to buy a pack in the city yesterday.... $7.75!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :wallbash:

i swear...im stopping at $8.00. Maybe.

[Hottub]

$1.10 at the Merit station on Rt 4.

[Lady Resin]

When I was little my parents use to give me a $1.00 to buy two packs of rats. They let me used the change for a comic book and a candy bar. Damn, I'm old. :sad:

[whiskyriver]

45 cents at the corner store or 50 cents at the vending machine in the police station that was closer to my house.

[Whiskeyportal]

89 cents for basics

[Franklyn]

$2.25

[Bulldogcakes]

My Mom used to send me around the block to buy her a carton of Pall Mall. I was like 7 or 8 years old at the time, and it was never a problem. I don't remember how much they were ($10?), but just the fact that a little kid could buy cigarettes shows how different things were.

[Badinia]

My Mom used to send me around the block to buy her a carton of Pall Mall. I was like 7 or 8 years old at the time, and it was never a problem. I don't remember how much they were ($10?), but just the fact that a little kid could buy cigarettes shows how different things were.

Old enough to point!

I paid a buck for Parliament 100's in Dallas, TX in 1986.

[spot]

65 cents in the machine, which was in the hallway outside of my Doctors office. 50 cents in the store. Holy fuck am I old....:sad:

[MHasegawa]

nice, first time one of my threads got bumped. first thought i had was someone hacked my shit, ya know?

[Hithead]

24 cents a pack and you could still buy loosies for 2 cents each. This was around 1958 in Dorchester MA.

[watson]

I only partake in the illegal kind, price is confidential

[PapaBear]

When I started, they were 85 cents to a dollar. Since I live in Virginia, I can get them for $3 today.

[TheMojoPin]

Typically a couple of muskets and five blankets for a harvest of the local savages' peculiar "smoke leaf."

[Devo37]

about $1.75.

i always say, "i'll quit if they go up to ____", but every time they go up in price, i keep buying.

i'm paying about $5 now, cuz i get the buy-2-get-1-free packs.

there's talk about raising them to $9 in ny, at which point i'll probably seek out a black-market alternative.

[Yerdaddy]

Price of cigs in Cambodia just jumped from 25 cents to 29. Fucking Bush!

[PapaBear]

Price of cigs in Cambodia just jumped from 25 cents to 29. Fucking Bush!
Damn... That must be only 45 cents short of a decent "date"!!!

[jonyrotn]

buck O five.. Same here..1982ish..They used to taste so good, back when I could still taste things..
Only loosers have all five senses..I'm down to like two and they're pretty dull..

Typically a couple of muskets and five blankets for a harvest of the local savages' peculiar "smoke leaf."
Did you throw in the Smallpox for free?
You could've gotten "smoke leaf" on the cheap from the Conquistdors too, or was that the Commadors? Which one was Lionel Richie in?

[docgoblin]

They were about 85 cents in NY when I 16. My Dad owned a bowling alley so we used to grab packs from there. Once they went above 2.00 he started locking them up. By the late 90's he stopped selling them altogether. It wasn't worth the hassle anymore. I'd still get the Generics (Alpine or Basic) for about 1.85 around that time. I finally decided to quit about 6-7 years ago. I can't imagine paying 5.50 or 6.00 a pack, not to mention 7.00 or 8.00 after the tax increase this summer... Yeesh!

[EvilHomerJ666]

1.25 in 97' when I started in Jersey. Now I live in/on tobacco road and it's still $4 a pack.

[weslank]

$6.00 a pack???? Dam, I guess since we grow it here in Ky., we get the cheaper prices-- $3.25, $30 a carton-----used to be less than a buck when I started.:smoke:

[smiler grogan]

A buck something or other when I started. I quit when American Spirits or my favorite Export A' were gonna be 3 bucks a pack the horror.

[meanmrbill]

Jacks were .99 cents, but that was 20 years ago.

[KnoxHarrington]

When I smoked, which was in the mid '90s, smokes were about $1.50 a pack, as I remember. Part of the reason for this was that Kentucky hadn't yet raised its cig tax, which was about 1 cent a pack at the time. That was probably insanely low, but, hey, cheap smokes for me, and the guys driving down from Ohio and going back with a trunk full of cigs.

[Stedman]

I started smoking around 2000 and cigs in arkansas were $2.75

Today they're about $4 a pack here but i'm less than 10 miles from Missouri where i can buy a carton for $27

[midwestjeff]

Free. They used to just set them out in nice displays on the counter for underage kids to take at their leisure. At least, that's the way we saw it. If I had to pay, they were about 2bucks with a poorly scribbled note from my "dad" saying that he sent me to get his cigarettes because he was sick in bed or had a broken leg or some shit. :smoke:

[SinA]

1995 - Less than $2 for a pack of Camel Lights.
I remember thinking that each cigarette was about a dime. I also remember thinking that there are 20 cigarettes in a pack and 20 matches in a book, but that I never smoked a whole pack using exactly one book of matched to light them... still haven't.

[scottinnj]

My Mom used to send me around the block to buy her a carton of Pall Mall. I was like 7 or 8 years old at the time, and it was never a problem. I don't remember how much they were ($10?), but just the fact that a little kid could buy cigarettes shows how different things were.

My Grandfather used to send my dad to the drugstore at night after dinner for a cigarette and a match. He'd give my dad 5 cents, so he could get a piece of candy too.

The clerk would have an open pack of pall malls at the counter for anyone wanting a "loosey" instead of buying a pack.

I remember buying cartons of Marlboros at the PX for 8 bucks. And while stationed in Germany, you were issued a ration card to restrict your purchases to 4 cartons a month, so you wouldn't buy out the PX and sell them on the German black market.

[stinkbud]

i don't exactly remember what they cost when i started, but i quit when they were $2.50

[~Katja~]

For the longest time I mooched them off my sister (or just stole them...lol) but they were about 2 Marks a pack in Germany.

When I came here they were somewhere around a buck in 97/98, I quit when they hit over3, close to 4 bucks, have no clue how much they even are today

[Holla Achu]

$1.99. I used to find someone that was 18+, give then $10, and ask them to pick me up 3 packs and "keep the change." It worked out well for the both of us. Thank God I gave up smoking in college. My loans would be 2x as much if I was still smoking.

[Slumbag]

They just went up in Indy about two weeks ago, and now the tax is going from 39 cents to $1.01.

I was paying $3.20 this time last year. It's looking at about 6 bucks a pack now.
Time to quit again.

[SatCam]

Im going into work in a few hours to raise the prices on our cigs. We also have to report to the gov how much tobacco we have on hand. I cant wait to hear it from the customers later today

[hedges]

When I started buying cigarettes before I had a habit they cost $1 a pack. I forget how much they cost later on.

[TooLowBrow]

When I started buying cigarettes before I had a habit they cost $1 a pack. I forget how much they cost later on.

you left out how much they cost now

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huh?

[biozombie]

Ninety cents a pack, and the price increases were always in direct proportion to the cost of school lunch. I was the asshole in high school walking around the cafeteria going "Hey, are you gonna finish those tater tots?"

[angrymissy]

$2. Lunch at HS was also $2, so my friend and I would pool our $4 and buy a pack of cigs to split and split a lunch. I'm only 30, but there was still a smoking area at my HS in Freshman and Sophomore year outside of the cafeteria.

[drjoek]

What do smokes cost now a days?
I saw a sign at the gas station that they were going up today in CT

[fleshysilo]

I can remember my dad giving me 2 quarters to get him a pack of smokes and having enough left over to by a superman comic book

[Aggie]

When I started they were probably around $2. The last time I bought a pack they just added $0.80 of tax per pack. ONE pack was $7.57. This isn't freaking NY, I was mad.

[Ritalin]

40 cents at the machine in the bowling alley.

[paracetamol flanders]

Certain places in Detroit had premium brands for 75 cents, though the suburb price was usually just under a dollar. However, I started because a chick in my dorm used to always have cartons of Virginia Slims and would kick me packs for free, so I had a good 6 months of freebies before I felt the sting of having to steal quarters from my roommate to buy packs.

In those 6 months of VS's I developed a nice pair of breasts.

[~Katja~]

so in 1988 these were one of the popular east german brands called Juwel and it was 2,50 Marks which basically was not even a dollar
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there was a local brand that still exists today called f6 and that was usually a bit cheaper... that's the one I started with...I didn't start until I was 16ish so the cigs prices had gone up in price but not really by much at all

We had a tobacco store in town where I would buy flavored cigs for a little extra...

[DrDrew319]

$10.50 here in Manhattan

[Aggie]

Katja, I have nothing to add about smokes...just that you look very lovely in your new avatar!

[paracetamol flanders]

We had a tobacco store in town where I would buy flavored cigs for a little extra...

By the time I graduated to imported brands like Dunhills and Sobranies I had to take up prostitution to come up with the astronomical $2.50.

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[~Katja~]

Katja, I have nothing to add about smokes...just that you look very lovely in your new avatar!

haha, classy even?
I needed to put a mean and annoying face to the title...

[boosterp]

States: $1.09 as written in my senior year book.

Germany: 5 Marks at the cig machine outside my barracks.

Edit: both for Marlboro.