I got cigs for $1.00 a carton when I was in Viet Nam in 1963 on our little base. Bud was 10 cants a can.
On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 11:38 PM, dick thompson <rhomp2...@earthlink.net>wrote: > I stopped a few years ago but just noticed that a cheap pack of cigs here > in Queens is about $8.50. When I first started smoking I started on Wings > because they were 19 cents a pack and the regular Pall Mall cigarettes and > Old Gold were 23 cents a pack. Of course I also drank Bud then because it > was 20 cents a frosted mug while Michelob was a quarter. Things have > changed a wee bit since then. > > > Travis wrote: > > Rigs: In Dec I paid $22.10 a carton. Jan mfgr price increase $.2.40 a > carton. March 1 Ark tax increaase $5.60 a carton. April 1 Fed tax increase > $6.10 per carton. Price April 2 = $36.20 a 58% increase. I now pay appx > 70% of price in taxes. > BS. I Quit. Annual savings in taxes alone is about $2000.00. > > On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 4:10 AM, rigsy03 <rigs...@yahoo.com> wrote: > >> >> Smoking may become a patriot's duty, d.b.! :-) Last carton was $54. >> When I said I might start growing tobacco the man behind me said >> you'll sooner get marijuana.// Why not redesign the head gasket- >> whatever that is- I grow faint when open the hood of my car. I often >> wished you could repair a car with a sewing machine or needle and >> thread.// I have a large back yard- the last one in the neighborhood- >> and have thought of lambs, geese and chickens but would be breaking >> city codes although the desecration of breathing space and privacy >> around homes doesn't qualify as injurious. But they are. >> >> On Mar 27, 1:04�am, "d.b.baker" <rth...@yahoo.com> wrote: >> > Obama is simply the icing on the Marxist cake. The takeover has been >> > underway for decades. >> > >> > It's the "little" things, like Chicago charging 16 quarters for an >> > hour of parking. Or that new red-light camera around the corner, you >> > know, the one where the yellow changes in 1.5 seconds. Neat, huh. Or >> > forcing corn oil into your gas tank, blowing the head gasket. >> > >> > Little things, like Eminent Domain, so the local apparatchik can seize >> > you property. I'm afraid to even mention all the wrongfully convicted >> > sitting on death row - the precipitous rise of the "Nancy Graces." Or >> > little Johnny forced into a dangerous school. And the tax on >> > productivity, the regulations meant to bankrupt business, individuals, >> > and anyone else not beholden. >> > >> > How 'bout importing terrorists by the boat load. And the illiterate, >> > the "less" militant non-assimilaters. Nervous? Well don't take up >> > cigarettes, they're nearing 10-dollars a pack. My neighbor Sam has >> > taken up tobacco farming. On the other side, Mrs. Rose is planting >> > squash. And potatoes. And Sunday she's going fishing - taking a taxi, >> > too, she doesn't want to get caught in another roadside, police >> > shakedown. >> > >> > While the young are all a Twitter. Tweeting their way down the dead- >> > end road. >> >> >> > > > -- *~@):~{> --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---