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.
>>
>>
>>
> >
>


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