DelMarVa's Premier Source for News, Opinion, Analysis, and Human Interest Contact Publisher Joe Albero at alberobutzo@wmconnect.com or 410-430-5349
DelMarVa's Premier Source for News, Opinion, Analysis, and Human Interest Contact Publisher Joe Albero at alberobutzo@wmconnect.com or 410-430-5349
50 cents
ReplyDeleteI remember 33 cents when my Dad would send me down the the corner store for his Kent Filters.
ReplyDeleteI paid 25 cents out of the machine but it was the mid 1960's
ReplyDeleteBack in the early 1960's Marlboros were 35 cents a pack in the cigarette machines.(now you know why I'm the "dinosaur" !!).
ReplyDeleteThey used to sell "Gunsmokes" in VA about 6-7 years ago for $5 a carton.
ReplyDeleteForget about the lowest price. Who is still selling cigarettes in this 1960's machine?
ReplyDeleteA co-worker of mine was in AC recently and was telling me that they are selling coffin nails for $10.50 in the Casino gift shops. Wow.
ReplyDelete9:29, I believe this is at Seacrets actually. It was $7.00 not long ago.
ReplyDelete.10 a pack in the military. .25 on the street. I quit when the price went up to .50 a pack in 1983.
ReplyDelete$2 a carton in NC! I was at 3 packs a day back then. Glad I quit 30 years ago. That would be like a mortgage payment these days!
ReplyDeleteI paid 10 cents a pack in Mexico back in 1982 and you were allowed to bring back 2 cartons. Think I paid about 50 cents when I started smoking in 1974, of course if you bought a carton they were cheaper.
ReplyDeleteVirginia has a brand at Dixieland called "Native" good as Marlboro's for $26.99 + 7% saletax.
Prohibition of alcohol had a very negitive effect. There were no laws on the books regarding meth, cocaine, marijuana and many other drugs so people just started doing drugs.
"The Real Thing" Coca-Cola with real pure cocaine! Pepsi had speed and the hucksters that sold those magic tonics back in those days were full of heroin and morphine. Who wouldn't feel BETTER!
The war on drugs started with Elliott Ness and has been ongoing for almost 100 years. A new war on cigarettes and higher taxes is going to make weed cheaper to smoke. For medicinal purposes only!
I quit when I couldn't get them for .50 a pack. Just could not afford them That was in the 70's
ReplyDeleteBy volume and weight,I am certain that tobacco is more expensive than pot.
ReplyDeleteI can remember paying 40 cents a pack. I quit 12 years ago before prices when completely crazy!!
ReplyDeleteWay back in the 50's you could put a nickel that had been pounded out to the diameter of a quarter in a machine and not only get a pack of cigarettes but get a nickel and two pennies change taped to the pack. Guess what usually happened to that nickel!
ReplyDeleteI remember them at 40 cents a pack I used to get a pack of smokes and a bottle of coke for 80 cents and get back 20 cents in change. Now 30 years later I have copd and no longer smoke. U see in my days didn't matter how old u were we could buy them. Yes, I had a mind of my own, but when your young u don't think of years later how smoking will effect you. Now just to breathe is a blessing. I put all the money I used to put into smokes in medicine to help me breathe. I believe in "You live you learn"
ReplyDeleteI cannot recall how much they cost back in the 70's, but I can remember being sent to the corner store with a note from the parents-they knew the storekeeper,try that NOW!
ReplyDelete