How much do you pay for smokes?

Charlie Mike

Charlie Mike

Sober since 1-7-14 (still a Paranoid Nutjob)
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At the 7-11 across the street, a pack of Marlboros is almost $5. Right now I roll my own with $20 a lb tobacco. The cheapest was in Iraq where I could get most Iraqi brands for $3 per carton.
 
I quit smoking when somebody tried to charge me fifty cents for a pack of Marlboros. That's been a while. ;)
 
The last pack I paid for was 50 cents also. But I can't remember how many years ago that was. Perhaps 47:)
 
I smoked generics for a long time (Wave, Sonoma), but rolling them is cheaper. Get more of a fix that way too.
 
5 bucks here in Cali :thumbdn:

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I'm moving to South Carolina ;):thumbup:
 
Botswana it translates to @ $2.50 for 20 having just had an extra $0.50 added in health tax. I used to bring a 500 packs of cigs, in 2000, from Zim on each trip to our South African office. Top quality at 1/5th the price. Made me a pretty penny back then considering I was travelling each month.
 
I think our prices are the worst in the country. I pay about 5.75 for a pack of camels.
At a pack a day 6 days a week, thats about 140 bucks a month. :/
 
I quit smoking 40 years ago, back then sea stores, cigs sold on Navy ships off shore, outside the 3-5 mile limit or whatever it was, were 10 cents a pack.

I get a craving for a Lucky Strike about once a year but get over it.
 
most places just under 4 bucks, i'm not gonna lie or apologize I like my Camel Light Wides:) (just under half a pack a day, way down from 2packs a day 17 years ago:thumbup:)
cheers
ivan
 
anywhere from $3.50 to $5.00. My last 2 packs (last night) were free- courtesy of the Camel reps who roll through the local bars from time to time.
 
My wife smokes Capri Menthols. Two months ago, maybe, NY hiked up the taxes on 'em big time - went from $60 to $75 a carton. There was a lot of yelling and cussing on my part, and I'm pretty good on not lecturing her. So her mother, uncle, and her started taking turn driving out to one of the Reservations. They're their own nation, after all, and can't get taxed by the gub'ment. $40 a carton.

Apparently, a lot of people have been doing this, (this comes from the Reservation shop my wife has been going to, so I'm not sure how accurate this is) because the gub'ment, who can't tax the tribes, realizes that it's losing a good amount of revenue, and has started putting pressure on Phillip Morris (others to follow) to jack up their distribution prices at the reservations to slow down sales. PM, who's in hot water most of the time, and might make a little more profit of it complies. The shop said that this particular tribe will stop selling PM products once the price goes up too far. They're not really affluent so they're hoping some of the larger Nations will file a suit against Phillip Morris or the gov't. Meanwhile, the other companies have seen that they can jack up their prices in the meantime, so now my wife's paying $43 a carton.
 
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