Just one pack a day - and many smokers do more than that - is close to $2000 a year. And we have relatively low cig taxes here. Imagine it in New York or other high-tax state.

I will also add one more thing.....

Reading the threads about smoking/tobacco use here on this forum had an influence on my decision to quit and stay with it.

Thanks for that.

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Originally posted by fiasconva:
My wife and I were discussing how expensive smoking is today and were wondering how some heavy smokers can afford it at today's prices. Does anyone know just how much a pack of cigarettes costs in NYC today?

"The Health Department announced the new base price for a pack of smokes has gone up from $10.50 to $13." <- NYC

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Originally posted by senza nome:
...base price for a pack of smokes has gone up from $10.50 to $13." <- NYC

Dayumn!

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"The Health Department announced the new base price for a pack of smokes has gone up from $10.50 to $13." <- NYC

By contrast, here, name-brand cigs are about $5.50, generics around $4.

I quit smoking cigarettes when they were .30 cents a pack. (1974).

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Originally posted by 08 Cayenne:
Now if I could just give up the hookers and blow.

Why in the world would you want to do that?

My last smoke was in 1973 when I stepped off the ship returning from Vietnam. It was Christmas Eve and I was smoking 3 packs of Camels a day.

1,000,000 Camels are alive because of that decision. 50,000 packs or 5,000 cartons. That’s a ton of money and lung function.

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Originally posted by bendable:
non smokers around you , thank you

You got that right!

Congratulations! Keep it up.

flashguy

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Originally posted by senza nome:

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Originally posted by fiasconva:
My wife and I were discussing how expensive smoking is today and were wondering how some heavy smokers can afford it at today's prices. Does anyone know just how much a pack of cigarettes costs in NYC today?

"The Health Department announced the new base price for a pack of smokes has gone up from $10.50 to $13." <- NYC

When my parents sent me to the store to buy a carton of Luckies in the 1950s it was $1.83/carton--that was less than a penny a cigarette! Both my parents smoked and I absolutely hated it. I have never tried even one! Dad died with emphysema before he was 76; mom made it to 88.

flashguy

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Originally posted by GWbiker:
I quit smoking cigarettes when they were .30 cents a pack. (1974).

I can relate. Part of the reason I quit (a small part, but still...) was that the commissary bumped cigarettes from $1.10 to $1.25 a carton (or numbers very similar to that) and that was plain highway robbery!

I quit in July of 1999 when I left active duty in th CG, on terminal leave...one of the best decisions I ever made.

I wish I had had the foresight to have done something similar. I smoked 2-3 packs a day for well over 20 years. I finally quit 10 years ago, but my wife couldn't kick the habit.

She did on May 22nd when she died of Lung Cancer.

Congratulations on your success.

It would be interesting to know the TRUE amount of money the tobacco companies make. I find it somewhat surprising that in this enlightened age they are still in business. Considering the illness and death tobacco causes and the impact on our insurance and health system.

With alcohol a close #2.

I don't really care about the financial cost, but am curious about the longterm health effects of, say, a pack or two per week. I am otherwise super healthy, work out at least five days a week, eat right, do cardio, weights, etc. But I really enjoy a smoke once in a while.

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Originally posted by FN in MT:
It would be interesting to know the TRUE amount of money the tobacco companies make. I find it somewhat surprising that in this enlightened age they are still in business. Considering the illness and death tobacco causes and the impact on our insurance and health system.

With alcohol a close #2.

Some of them bought food companies. R. J. Reynolds bought out Nabisco (but I think that has now been severed). Philip Morris bought Kraft. I was never comfortable with tobacco companies having anything to do with my food.

flashguy

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Originally posted by mcrimm:
My last smoke was in 1973 when I stepped off the ship returning from Vietnam.

Interesting reminder.

I never smoked (thanks to my parents for giving me something to rebel against), but in 1968-69 when I was there, cigarettes were $1.00 a carton (yes, 10¢ a pack—the same as a can of beer). A buck went a lot further in those days, but that was still extremely cheap for people who were getting hazardous duty pay and didn’t have much else to spend their money on. Although I never witnessed any of the supposed encouragements to smoke in the military during my career, there were very few restrictions. If I ever develop lung problems it will probably be due to having breathed other people’s smoke for 40+ years.

100,000 Cigarettes definitely puts it in perspective.

I smoked about 10K Cigarettes, but that is nearly 40K Cigarettes not smoked ago.

SOOOOO fracking glad I quit when I did. Haven't had an urge in several years (used to get it when it was cold outside on a job).