I was a smoker long ago but I don’t know how one can afford to smoke now, I used to smoke three packs a day, at today’s prices that would cost over a hundred dollars a week just to buy the cigarettes here in South Carolina which has generally been a low cost state for smokers and then there are insurance costs to consider. I started smoking as an 18 year old sailor and a carton of a premium brand now costs almost what my monthly gross income was then. After all these years as a non-smoker I cannot stand the smell of cigarettes now.
You are right about the cost of ciggys today...I roll my own and its about 12 dollars a carton....1 pound of tobacco cost (varies) by brand 15 dollars=it makes 2 cartons and 2 boxes of tubes with 200 cost about 4 dollars per box..I would quit if I had to buy packages of smokes....I hate to give the government that much money...its almost all taxes, federal and state...(depends on what state you live in tho)