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.

 

[Woodznutz]

I smoked for 15 years. Quit at age 30, tired of being sick.

 

[Captain Caveman]

i have hardly ever smoked.

what about you?

option 4 should read ... I am a smoker and want to stay that way

We tried as very young teens. My dad asked where we got them, we told him which newsagents. He marched us into the shop and infront of the shop owner, he told him not to sell us fags. And from that day on, never smoked. That was late 70's.

My dad never smoked, many in his family did and died from smoking illnesses before I was born. My mother's dad smoked the pipe, but he didn't die from a smoking illness.

 

[Leo123]

Don't bother. I can probably list more things and types of tobacco you've not smoked than you've ever even heard of.

Not only are there tobacco types, there are blends, various cuts and styles.

The variety is almost endless.

And I did not even mention cigars. I've tried every type cigar using every blend and process of tobacco from every part of the world.

BTW, I highly recommend the Padron Anniversary Series and the Drew Estates.

Bottom line: in a galaxy of fine choices of good pipe and cigar tobaccos (and even cigarettes), the vast majority of people confine themselves to the worst possible crap there is.

I smoked some stuff from South America that was not tobacco but had a lot of nicotine. It about knocked me on my ass. Forgot the name of it. It was really harsh too. Got it from a coca leaf supplier....shhhh.

 

[toobfreak]

I smoked some stuff from South America that was not tobacco but had a lot of nicotine. It about knocked me on my ass. Forgot the name of it. It was really harsh too. Got it from a coca leaf supplier....shhhh.

Guarana root?

There is also another plant they have called woodland tobacco, flowering tobacco, or South American tobacco.

 

[toobfreak]

Guarana root sounds like it. I couldn't easily get it's smoke smell out of my man cave.

They use guarana root in a lot of energy drinks. They used to make a cola called Josta, and it had that in it along with other unusual stuff. I tell you, this was the absolute best drink in the world I ever tasted, but they stopped making it about a year after I discovered it. Rat bastards at Pepsi refuse to bring it back.

 

[hjmick]

Smoked what?

 

[Leo123]

They use guarana root in a lot of energy drinks. They used to make a cola called Josta, and it had that in it along with other unusual stuff. I tell you, this was the absolute best drink in the world I ever tasted, but they stopped making it about a year after I discovered it. Rat bastards at Pepsi refuse to bring it back.

I checked, it wasn't guarana.

 

[toobfreak]

I checked, it wasn't guarana.

Probably that woodland tobacco then.

 

[The Duke]

I smoke a lot. Mostly beef and pork.
Probably should expand my repoirtoire.

 

[playtime]

i started smoking at the age of 12 ... smoked a pack a day for 26 years & the last one i had was on july 19, 2000. quitting was the hardest thing i have ever done, & although it doesn't bother me to be around smokers ( although i can't stand the smell on clothing ) - i know that if i took a drag off of one, i would go right back to smoking. when i started, cigarettes were 65 cents a pack.

how much are they now?

 

[Zebra]

Now ….

15 dont smoke
5 do smoke

 

[Woodznutz]

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."

Elmendorf Airbase, Anchorage Alaska, October, 1963.
Flying to Korea, stopover in Anchorage. Bought cigarettes from vending machine in airport canteen. Put in 15 cents. Change of 4 pennies taped to side of pack. Total cost, 11 cents.

 

[toobfreak]

Elmendorf Airbase, Anchorage Alaska, October, 1963.
Flying to Korea, stopover in Anchorage. Bought cigarettes from vending machine in airport canteen. Put in 15 cents. Change of 4 pennies taped to side of pack. Total cost, 11 cents.

Stuff tends to be cheap like that until the government decides to step into something and get involved.

 

[braalian]

Stuff tends to be cheap like that until the government decides to step into something and get involved.

I this case it’s justified

It lowers smoking rates and it generates revenue
Win-win

 

[Chuz Life]

Cigars only, mainly when I play guitar or mow the grass.

Cheap gas station shit, can't really say I enjoy them anymore.

Can't afford the real ones.

I've enjoyed a couple Cuban cigars before, and it basically ruins the enjoyment of anything less.

 

[braalian]

Go to Wild Bill’s for cigars

They have quality hand rolled brands and always have a decent selection of buy-one-get-one-free. Camacho, CAO, rocky Patel. The BOGO deals make these essentially $5-6 a stick. Very affordable

 

[toobfreak]

I this case it’s justified. It lowers smoking rates and it generates revenue

Well, we certainly know that it generates a lot of revenue for the government, to then spend on condoms for Ecuadorians or something. As to lowering smoking rates, maybe, maybe not. But it certainly takes the money out of many people's hands that would pay for a much needed new car and instead, gives that to the government.