Posted on 02/23/2014 12:52:40 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Thank you. I was trying to think of a tactful way to say what you did...very tactfully.
Legalizing pot and banning tobacco.
Who says the drug war ended?
I remember that as well, but I remember them being 49cents (but that was NYC which was always higher than most other places.)
No smoke, no vote! If you’ve got to be 21 to smoke (i.e., not of sufficient age to make a reasonable decision), then it stands to reason you shouldn’t be allowed to vote.
Of course they would lose a lot of tax revenue.
Depends on the State...some things still do. I think the youngest is 14.
I remember when cigs were 19¢ a pack out of a machine. You put in your two dimes, pulled the handle and out came a pack of Lucky Strike cigarettes or any other brand available. Inside the wrapper was a bright new penny.
They cost 17¢ at the store. “Marvel” cigarettes, the generic of it’s day were just 14¢ a pack and if you wanted to go even cheaper, Buy Bull Durham and rolling paper.
Yes indeed, I’m old.
BLOAT
I remember when cigs were 19¢ a pack out of a machine. You put in your two dimes, pulled the handle and out came a pack of Lucky Strike cigarettes or any other brand available. Inside the wrapper was a bright new penny.
Recess time after lunch was more crimes against the state involving a majority of the class. The teacher would go to his office and most of the class would go over a small hill and down to the creek bank where the daily accumulation of contraband from parents cigarette packs were lit up and inhaled.
I was raised by non smoking parents so I didn't start smoking till high school where it was openly permitted. I was born in 1957 so age 18 was the age of majority in my state for all things. I'd smoke maybe a cigarette or two a day and after leaving high school I stopped. Then I enlisted and I smoked in Boot Camp at smoke breaks just because smoke and cokes were allowed. On the ship I used Skoal because smoking spaces were limited.
After I got out of the Navy and married my first wife smoked and so did I as did my second wife for about a year. I quit with maybe a total of five years being a regular smoker. I didn't have any problems quiting. Sis on the other hand would smoke five packs if they were handed to her.
Colorado?
Home of the perpetually stoned dopers?
“Sorry son, You’re too young to buy a pack of Luckies. How about a nice bag of dope?”
My mom used to send me down to the corner store to get her a pack of smokes from the cigarette machine.
They cost 18¢ a pack back then so she would give me 20¢ in nickles and dimes.
When you bought the cigarettes they came out of the machine with two pennies taped to the pack.
Thanks for the ping!
Instead of no tobacco until 21, I’d rather the age to vote went back to 21. Obama got in with the help of the 18 to 21 voters who wanted a cool Black dude.
What would be nice is if the voting age went back to 21 except for people in the military.
I would raise it to 25, except for people in the military, because that age is apparently when the human brain is finally fully developed.
sorry, just saw this. Powers That Be.
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