Have you ever smoked?

[toobfreak]

And expensive!
At 13 bucks a pack and a pack a day, that’s like close to 400 bucks a month. That’s enough for a new car.

Only made that way by a government trying to tax you into submission. Tobacco fascism. If tobacco is so bad, people would stop smoking it on their own and wouldn't need taxed to death. In my day, a pack of cigarettes was only about 35¢--- in other words, only about twice the cost of a pack of gum; easily affordable to me even as a high school student.

Then government got involved and identified tobacco as yet one more thing needing "fixed."

 

[toobfreak]

wow its only ten bucks here in vegas...

Wow. Average national price for a pack of cigarettes is about $8.00. That is 400X over inflation for what cigarettes cost when I was a teen and first took up smoking. A pack of smokes today should really cost between $2.50 - $2.90 a pack.

 

[toobfreak]

Make my own. Takes 5 minutes a day and costs me about $1.50 a pack. But I could buy premade for 3.65 a pack.

You can buy ribbon cut Turkish Izmir by the pound or ounce, which is what cigarette tobacco basically is (generally called an oriental tobacco), except, if you buy the bulk tobacco yourself to roll on your own, it will be of a much higher quality than what one finds in a commercial American cigarette. I probably have a half pound or so laying around the house.