Posted on 08/19/2017 4:24:42 PM PDT by Drango
Come on, now that Da Gummint is PARTNER$ w/ the tobacco industry, do they REALLY want them to quit..?
NO WAY..!!!
they do not want smokers to quit...quite the contrary, they want them to keep smoking and keep paying those taxes....its been a big payoff to the trial lawyers.....
I smoke a couple cigarettes some days, some days not-a pack last 2 weeks or so-I also like a glass of wine or a beer sometimes-these are things I enjoy, and I don’t care how much the cost, I will pay for things I enjoy LEGALLY as an adult, period. Nannys can’t stand for anyone to enjoy anything they don’t like-food, drink, smoke-next they’ll be telling us how many times a week we can have sex-someone needs to tell them to stfu and get a life...
I said i would never quit when a pack cost $3 per pack, then 4, then 5...after I decided to quit, I quit, with the help of God.
Econ 101.
Quit when they go up a $1? Hell I quit for good decades ago when they got up to a $1 a pack.
In 1980 I was a year out of high school and working in a convenience store. I can’t tell you the number of people who said to me, “When cigarettes hit $1 a pack I’m quitting”.
I doubt many did.
If the government can put price controls in place, they can manipulate the behavior of the sheeple.
Not news.
But, the traffic to the smoke shacks is never ending. And, most of the cars going there are beaters. That tells me that the people who are buying cigs are the least who can afford them.
Just my observation.
So if they cost $5 more smokers would be 100% more likely to quit?
A dollar each? Twenty dollars a pack?
I quit in early 2003.
Highest I ever paid for a carton was around $38 in 1999. They were around $18 per carton at a Native American tobacco store when I quit.
Over the years, I call the money I saved as my ‘mad money.’ When I think about a computer or laptop upgrade, etc., I take it from the ‘mad money.’ It would have gone up in smoke otherwise. I figure I have around $2500-3000 per year available.
I think current prices are around $6 per pack plus tax of $1.15 or around $280 per month.
why don’t they just make cigarettes with no nicotine? (and not those cocoa-shells ones either)
Each? I said > quit when they got to $1 a pack.
And the rise of the black market.
I was just going by the lead to the post. It didn’t state each or pack but on the street guys sell cigarettes by the each - they’re called “loosies” at a buck a piece.
I bought name brands Winstons, Marlboros, Camels in the 50’s for 25¢ pack or box, 2 bucks a carton. Everything is up or is it the dollar is down ?...if it’s killing you fails your attention...
Really, a buck for each? I,m going to buy cases of cartons, set up shop on the street, and sell them 3 for $2.
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