I remember when I was a teenager, and we went on a family trip to the Southeast. Cigarettes were still only around $2.50 a pack then by me, but when we got to Raleigh, North Carolina, I was in heaven. $1.00 a pack for all the “major” brands, and .50 a pack for some “off” brands.
I thought I’d only had enough cash for a pack, and ended up with 3 packs for the rest of the trip. I think it was just kismet that Raleigh happened to be the town I was able to sneak off from the folks long enough to run to the gas station to buy some. I was a bit worried about getting “carded” still, but the old man behind the counter couldn’t have cared less. I imagine that 12 year olds are probably regular customers down there :)
When I was in the AF overseas in 1969, they were 10 cents a pack, $1.00 a carton. We used to get these C-rations sometimes when we had to work during a typhoon. Each meal box had a little 4-pack of cigarettes in them.