Cost of a 1 pack a day habit, by state, at 100% of FPL

[lumberjack_jeff]

[Agschmid]

1. Link to source?

[lumberjack_jeff]

4. .

http://www.theawl.com/2013/07/what-a-pack-of-cigarettes-costs-now-state-by-state

[Agschmid]

5. Thanks!

[onehandle]

2. Number One Most Addictive Drug On Earth.

And Cigarette Butts Are The Number One Most Polluted Item On Earth.

Drug addicts don't give a shit where they drop them.

[DesertFlower]

6. i've heard it's easier to kick

heroin than cigarettes. i know when i quit smoking it was one of the hardest things i ever did.

[Cha]

10. Don't I know that. The beach park in my neighborhood is

littered with them.

[ConcernedCanuk]

31. Although a smoker - I don't throw butts on the ground.

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And,

had trouble getting guests to understand that it is NOT ok to throw their butts on the ground at my home.

I got 28 acres of land here, and if I see a butt from a previous owner or visitor, I pick it up.

I found a more effective way than asking/telling people not to throw butts on the ground.

Without a word, I walk over, pick up the offensive butt, and put it in an ashtray or the garbage.

Most are immediately apologetic,

and ALL of them get the message.



CC

ps: also have a "3 butt max" policy regarding ashtrays - after the 3 (usually just 2 though) butts cool, into a can by the door, empty can into an OUTSIDE can twice daily (nowhere near full - emptied anyways).

[Cha]

35. Good on you, CC.. wish everyone

were as considerate.

I heard there was talk of banning smoking in the state parks around here because of the mess they leave behind.

[Luminous Animal]

32. Got a link for that?

[DesertFlower]

3. i quit in '83. they had just hit

$1.05 a pack in NYC.

[lumberjack_jeff]

9. At an average of 32.5% of gross annual income...

It's an important source of financial stress for poor households.

[DesertFlower]

12. yes. it is.

[kwassa]

15. I quit in '84, they were an outrageous $.90 a pack in LA.

but I really, really wanted to quit, and I did.

2.5 packs of Marlboros a day for fourteen years.

[DesertFlower]

29. i really wanted to quit too. i smoked for

30 years. started when i was 12. it wasn't the money or health concerns. i didn't like the idea that i was addicted -- that i would go out in a snow storm for a pack of cigs.

[madokie]

25. August 14 1977 for me

they went to 60 cents a pack.
I said screw this and quit. I kept a pack with me at all times just in case. Finally they made it to my glove box in my car. A year or so later I was in my glove box and noticed that at some point I got so close to smoking a cigarette that I had opened the pack but it still had 20 in it so I hadn't. Just think of all the money I've saved since then. I was a two pack a day smoker when I smoked.

Several years ago I quit the bottle where I was drinking something like 7 or 8 dollars worth of booze a day on average so just think how much money I've saved on that too.
Actually our bank account does reflects some of those savings too.

[DesertFlower]

30. congratulations on stopping both.

[angstlessk]

7. I have gone from 2-3 packs a day to e-cigs...

or more appropriately... vaping....does not even look like a cigarette..but satisfies my desire for nicotine...but not all that other crap

Talk about Armageddon, I want to know what I need in case the fed decides I can no longer purchase that which is saving my life?

[pinto]

8. How's that work for you? I'm thinking of using e-cigs as a bridge to stop smoking.

Miss the "smoke"? Did you replace cigs totally with e-cigs, transition over the course of time? Thinking of dropping the e-cigs?

[SomethingFishy]

14. I did a transition... As soon as I started on the e-cig

(I went with the Blu e-cig, for me it was the most satisfying) I cut down from a carton a week to two packs. After the first couple days I started smoking just a few puffs at a time on the regular cigs just to get the taste. I slowly weaned myself off the regulars over the course of about a month and am now on e-cigs only. It wasn't real hard, and the e-cig cartridges come in different levels of nicotine so you can slowly wean off of that too. I'm actually enjoying the e-cig at the moment, but I figure I'll give it up eventually. It's half the cost of cigarettes but that still adds up quick... and you still get dirty looks if you are not discreet about it.

[pinto]

16. Thanks for the feedback.

I like smoking, tell the truth. Friends joke about it - pinto just likes to smoke, makes no bones about it. But age, concurrent health concerns - tar, additives - and finances come calling. Nicotine in and of itself is fine with me. I'm going to try some e-cigs, see how it goes.

[SomethingFishy]

18. Yeah I know exactly what you mean.. I turned 50 this year..

and it worked for me.. Good luck, and BTW if you are a pot smoker you can get refillable cartridges so you can switch to vaping your weed at a moments notice

[angstlessk]

22. In Colorado maybe...but here in Michigan...I could be arrested without

a doctors prescription...just sayin

[angstlessk]

21. Some people both smoke and vape...but they smoke much less

and some quite smoking all together when they start...I had bronchitis...so it was a no brainer...

the first time I tried to quite because of bronchitis I picked it up again after one month of not smoking...I am now at about 2 months..and I have no desire to smoke...but I do use 24mg of nicotine..in order to keep my desire for smokes under control...

I plan to move down s l o w l y.....because..it is more import to me to keep of cigs..than to keep off nicotine

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

34. Me too. 2-3 packs a day to e-cigs. 3 years since my last real cig.

[SamKnause]

11. Smoking

$10.81 for 16 oz. of pipe tobacco.

16 oz of pipe tobacco = 3 cartons of cigarettes.

$2.49 for 1 box of 250 tubes.

$2.49 X 3=$7.47. 150 tubes left over.

$10.81 + $7.47=$18.28 for 3 cartons of cigarettes.

Pipe tobacco 16 oz. $10.81 versus cigarette tobacco 16 oz. $59.00

If you smoke roll your own using pipe tobacco.

[angstlessk]

23. I have spent in the last month...the cost of 10 cartons of cigars

I normally purchase from some Indian Reservation...which is of course sans federal tax...

However...I can wean myself off of nicotine...not cigarettes...(small cigars which are cigarettes in brown wrappers)

[William Seger]

13. "at 100% of FPL"?

[lumberjack_jeff]

20. Federal poverty level. nt

[FarCenter]

17. Possession of more than 2000 lbs of tobacco should be illegal

De-industrialize tobacco and turn it into a legal cottage industry. It would provide a lot of employment.

[The Midway Rebel]

19. Smoking is bad, but those pollsters got ripped off.

It sounds like they found the price for their premium brand cigarettes in a vending machine...at an airport.

We po' folks know how to find them a buck or two cheaper than that. Broke and addicted to nicotine does not equal stupid. Just sayin'.

I snuffed out my last Camel non filter about six years ago. I used to chain smoke hand rolled smokes for about 25 or 30 bucks a week. Stress lately has caused me to start a cigar habit that I am getting over at the moment. Damn you nicotine.

edited for splelling

[angstlessk]

24. DO E CIGS...nicotine without the evils of cigarettes...

AND cheaper..

[Bennyboy]

26. At the Safeway today, a carton of cigs was

71.99 Marlboros, all varieties. 7 dollars a pack.

[lumberjack_jeff]

27. What state? n/t

[Bennyboy]

28. California...

Not sure what the price is in the liquor stores. usually they are a lot cheaper than in the grocery stores.

[Blue_In_AK]

33. A carton of Marlboros from Costco here in Anchorage costs $86

That includes our very high municipal tax. $63 for the cigarettes and $23 for the tax.