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I figure I was spending around $12 a day on tobacco toward the end. That's about $4400 a year, or enough to pay for one or two ambulance rides.

Being strapped to a gurney and breathing through a hose for a week is not a particularly enjoyable way to quit, but it was quite effective for me.

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I figure I was spending around $12 a day on tobacco toward the end. That's about $4400 a year, or enough to pay for one or two ambulance rides.

Being strapped to a gurney and breathing through a hose for a week is not a particularly enjoyable way to quit, but it was quite effective for me.
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Yikes Dieter! 😱😳 My absolute God! 😱😳 I remember a guy saying he quit when he realized he was PAYING to potentially die of smoking related causes! 💡

You pay for cigarettes once when you get them, and again when they get you.

Why cigarettes though? That's the only tobacco you actually inhale. Cigars and pipes deliver the nicotine just through the mouth and you're not getting all that carbon monoxide which is probably the worst thing you are inhaling when smoking cigarettes. Or you can do nasal snuff which will make your head spin with nicotine but nicotine is all you are getting, no products of combustion at all.

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You pay for cigarettes once when you get them, and again when they get you.

Why cigarettes though? That's the only tobacco you actually inhale. Cigars and pipes deliver the nicotine just through the mouth and you're not getting all that carbon monoxide which is probably the worst thing you are inhaling when smoking cigarettes. Or you can do nasal snuff which will make your head spin with nicotine but nicotine is all you are getting, no products of combustion at all.
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Honestly, I never liked puffing cigars or pipes. Not sure why.

Thirty-six years ago, you could find packs of cigarettes for under $2. There was a popular brand called Bucks that sold for $1,

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You pay for cigarettes once when you get them, and again when they get you.

Why cigarettes though? That's the only tobacco you actually inhale. Cigars and pipes deliver the nicotine just through the mouth and you're not getting all that carbon monoxide which is probably the worst thing you are inhaling when smoking cigarettes. Or you can do nasal snuff which will make your head spin with nicotine but nicotine is all you are getting, no products of combustion at all.
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And you're also paying for the chance to potentially accidentally cause a fire or accidentally get people killed in a fire! 😱😳 I saw a VERY scary anti cigarettes commercial where a mother is smoking a cigarette and puts the lit cigarette in an ashtray and makes her Daughter or Son(Kid had long hair but looked like a boy to me) go to bed and walks him or her to bed.

The lit cigarette ends up falling out of the ashtray and the entire house is enflamed in a HUGE fire in just about 10 minutes! 😱😳 The commercial said something like,"One lit cigarette can cause your entire house to be enflamed in a HUGE fire in just minutes. Please don't leave lit cigarettes unattended." 💡

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Thirty-six years ago, you could find packs of cigarettes for under $2. There was a popular brand called Bucks that sold for $1,
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A Customer told me that cigarettes going up ONE QUARTER about 40 years ago made him permanently stop smoking, LMAO! 🤣🤭

As a kid, my Mom smoked. When I was around ten or twelve, she sent me to the corner store for a pack of cigarettes. They were ninety-five cents, and I was allowed to get a nickel's worth of candy. The man gave me a pack of Marlboro Reds and told me to tell my Mom they were $1.05 and she owed a nickel. She returned the pack, and I don't think she ever smoked again.
I quit at $3, and again at $4 , as well as at $5. I think I paid $10 once, but I have not bought a pack in years and have not smoked a cigarette in several years.
The first year I quit, I put $5 a day away and took a trip to Gettysburg and Washington, DC with the Rolling Thunder Honor Guard.

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As a kid, my Mom smoked. When I was around ten or twelve, she sent me to the corner store for a pack of cigarettes. They were ninety-five cents, and I was allowed to get a nickel's worth of candy. The man gave me a pack of Marlboro Reds and told me to tell my Mom they were $1.05 and she owed a nickel. She returned the pack, and I don't think she ever smoked again.
I quit at $3, and again at $4 , as well as at $5. I think I paid $10 once, but I have not bought a pack in years and have not smoked a cigarette in several years.
The first year I quit, I put $5 a day away and took a trip to Gettysburg and Washington, DC with the Rolling Thunder Honor Guard.
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I also remember being allowed to buy stuff for my grandma that I definitely shouldn't have been able to buy as a child. My Grandma would send me to the store to buy her lottery tickets when I was a little kid in the 90's and I would get them!😱😳 Try sending a little kid TODAY to buy lottery tickets, the store would absolutely refuse! 💡

Cigarette prices have jumped up insanely in 40 years! 😱😳 In 1985 an carton of cigarettes was around $15. Today a single pack of cigarettes is around $15! 😱😳

In the late 1980s, the Federal Tax was $1.60 per carton. Thirty years later, it was almost $11 a carton. It hasn't changed since, but states and local governments have raised billions from the sales.

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In the late 1980s, the Federal Tax was $1.60 per carton. Thirty years later, it was almost $11 a carton. It hasn't changed since, but states and local governments have raised billions from the sales.
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I have heard that New York cigarette prices are insane, something like $20 a pack for Marlboros. 😱😳 But New York also has bigger pay rates, than say Florida, so it kind of balances out. 🤔💡