Comments on: How Much Would Smokers Pay For A Pack?

By: Leatherneck

Leatherneck — Tue, 20 May 2008 01:03:15 +0000

I roll my own cigarettes.

$18.00 for 1 lb. of tobacco
$12.00 for 4 boxes of cigarette tubes (with filters)

That’s $30 for 800 cigs (40 packs or 4 cartons).

After taxes, I pay approximately .80 per pack.

Rolling cigs is a huge pain, but it beats paying over 50 bucks per carton.

By: drillanwr (hembra blanca típica)

drillanwr (hembra blanca típica) — Tue, 20 May 2008 01:19:53 +0000

Leatherneck

WOW!!!

By: Kurt(the infidel)

Kurt(the infidel) — Tue, 20 May 2008 01:25:03 +0000

I rolled my own for a while. didnt last too long, but i have a kick ass rolling machine that does all the work for me. i just kinda had it sitting around

By: littlefox

littlefox — Tue, 20 May 2008 01:50:32 +0000

Cigarettes are still $1.50/ $2.00 a pack where I live,
the “wild west” “isle of misfits”, BEAUTIFUL St.Croix USVI!!!!! (and a 5th of rum is 5 bucks)

By: TBinSTL (just typical)

TBinSTL (just typical) — Tue, 20 May 2008 03:00:16 +0000

Littlefox
Now you’re just being cruel.

Seriously, major brands like I used to smoke are from $25 a carton to $45 for my favorites(Lucky Strike non-filter). Right now I am smoking the most embarassing cigs I’ve ever had but they cost less that $14 a carton and dont taste like flavored crap. They are made in Armenia and are called, get this….”Tough Guy” cigarettes. Always fun to pull out in a bar full of raging college kids…..but I control the beer so they have to be nice to me!

By: Brian H

Brian H — Tue, 20 May 2008 03:06:59 +0000

Here in BC, Canada, most brands are ~$9/pack. The cheapo brands can be had for as low as $6. So it costs in the region of $2,000/yr to smoke.

And I remember swearing off for a while when they reached $1/pack, too. Many decades ago!

By: drillanwr (hembra blanca típica)

drillanwr (hembra blanca típica) — Tue, 20 May 2008 03:32:57 +0000

Brian H

If my memory serves me correctly …

Your Canadian cigarettes come less in a pack and are skinny (compared to US Brands) …

We vaca-ed in Canada one summer and became friendly with a family from the area where we were. They would tell us about all the taxes on this and that and how they would cross over into NY for better this and that … and cigarettes (at the time) used to be one of those things they’d come over and get the limit on.

By: Poexxx

Poexxx — Tue, 20 May 2008 03:59:30 +0000

6$ for a pack of Red’s up here in Maine. They tax roll your own supplies up here too thou, so even those are comparable.

I quit in August of 2003 when it hit 4$ a pack.

Land of the Free… Less you want to smoke anyway.

By: ken holton

ken holton — Tue, 20 May 2008 07:54:00 +0000

In Australia, we pay between $10 ($AUS) and $15 ($AUS) a pack. Everyone complains, but keeps smoking. Our government would go broke if we all quit,(ie taxed to hell) and they know it.

By: franchie

franchie — Tue, 20 May 2008 11:52:06 +0000

I also roll my cigarets : I pay for a 50 gr pot 14 €, plus 1,10 € for the paper

In Luxemburg, it just cost half of that price for 100 gr

So, whenever I get in touch with my elder son, I get a reserve of cheaper tobacco

By: BradW (the Infidel)

BradW (the Infidel) — Tue, 20 May 2008 12:37:12 +0000

I pay aroun $3.75 for Mavericks, about the same flavor of Marlboro, and 2 bucks a pack cheaper. I really emjoy smoking, probably part of the addiction i guess. I have tried to quit soo many times, started wehn I was 15 or 16. the longest time I was able to quit was USMC basic, that was a long 16 weeks back then, every time the Senior DI lit up in front of us, I started jonesing. Wish I had never bought that first pack about 20 minutes after graduation… during active duty I smoked 2-3 packs a day.

I now smoke 4 - 6 cigarettes a day, it feeds the addiction, my doctor who happens to be former AF, said that at that low rate, it would be more stressful to quit that to keep smoking, but he regularly encourages me to quit for good. I keep working on it.

I have NEVER smoked in fornt of my son, he wants to do EVERYTHING daddy does, don’t want to encourage him on a bad habit. I never smoke in the house, never have since my wife found out she had asthma in addition to her allergies, and she quit smoking. I do not smoke in the car either.

My parents are both smokers, have been since I can remember. Mom rarely smokes, only when she is really stressed out about something, and then only a couple a day. Dad has cut back, his favorite, Lucky Strikes non-filter. He now rolls his own, has done so on and off for years, the cost for him to smoke Luckies would be over 50 bucks a carton, home rolled about 12 bucks. They are both retired, thankfully they have pretty good income, they could smoke more of they wnated, they have finally decided it is time to quit, so they can be around longer for the grand kids.

My kid brother smokes as well, and my older one used to smoke, he was forced to quit when he married his wife. Getting him to quit and the tow neices are the only good from that marriage… another story there…

Anyway, price per pack to get me to quit? I may never quit, but you can be sure that as the taxes have gone up in Ohio, I smoke less. Just wait until myslef and millions of others finally do quit, where will the government get the missing tax revenue? Yeah, they find something else to raise taxes on, that mroe people use. Maybe that step will be to start taxes food items.

Hell, they may really go green, and make Cheryl Crow happy by taxing toilet paper by the roll…