Hmm, I pay $2.85 including tax per pack of Marlboro Lights 100’s here. $5.70 a day, if I smoked 2 packs a day, making it $2080.50 per year, provided the price stays the same. Of course, it really does depend on where you buy, because across the street from the convenience store I buy from, they’re $3.99 a pack.
I really only smoke one pack per day, so my yearly outlay would be closer to $1040. Gah. I could have a whole new wardrobe for that.
Well, in the late 80’s I remember my parents talking about how they used to say that, and Mom didn’t start smoking till the late 70’s, so I’d guess late 70’s-early 80’s. I don’t know what they were making at the time, but minimum wage was something like $2.65.