[Toddsterpatriot]

I have no idea what it costs to buy cigarettes in New York or Chicago now.

After the most recent tax boost, in Chicago, $13.

https://www.expatistan.com/price/cigarettes/chicago

[RipSawyer]

Good grief, I quit the danged things when I was 29 but I was smoking three packs a day then. I would need to make nearly three hundred a week now after taxes just to smoke those same cigarettes.