A couple of nights ago I watched this woman buy a carton of cigarettes. I asked the clerk how much they cost, she said around $40.00.
Is smoking tobacco all that grand? I am not complaining, my family grows tobacco, so all the smokers make money for my relatives.
As they would say, they just grow the s–t, they don’t use it.
It is very hard to answer the question because smoking may be grand for the lady and she may not care how much she has to spend on cigarettes. $40.00 is a lot of money to spend on cigarettes, but I think it is even more amazing to watch people at a bar spend $100.00 to $200.00 on a bar tab or pay a hooker X amount of dollars for sex. It is all about spending your money on what you think is important, or what makes you happy.
Personally, I don’t think smoking is all that grand, but if you had asked me a month ago before I quit, I would have told you that I would pay any price for cigarettes. It is all about personal preference and happiness.
nope
I need to quit.
Forty bucks for a carton of smokes?!? Where the hell do you live?!?
I was kind of wondering that myself. A carton is in the $20-30 range here, and certainly <cough!> they are <hack!> worth every <achoo!> red cent!
:picks lung up off the floor:
A pipe is a beautiful thing.
If I find mine is too damp to smoke I buy another, and now have forty. My Pa died at an old age, and so did George Burns, so I’m not worried.
By my calculations smoking is a good financial deal. I pay about $2.50 for a pack, or 12 cents per cigarette. Now that cigarette lasts for 5-10 minutes on a smoke break + another 5 or so to go downstairs, and back up. So lets say a minumum of 10 minutes per smoke, making 6 smokes breaks worth an hour of my companies time. But I’m still payed as if I was working. But if I didn’t smoke I wouldn’t get this same break cause if you get a cup of coffee and walk out to the sidewalk to drink it, or just take a newspaper to the outside bench without a cigarette, your boss gets pissed off. Since I make far more than 72 cents an hour it is clearly in my advantage to smoke.
Damn, Wolfman, I was considering quitting, but now that you bring it up, I don’t think I could afford to quit! 
I never thought that smoking was all that great. Definately not worth the $$$.
Now dip on the other hand.
aside from all the negative things that come along with it, smoking is great.
i miss it. but all the negative things are enough to keep me from going back.
What I wanted to know is does smoking make you feel better? This NOVA show that said nicotine is more addictive than heroin, and that it is a mood lifter, better than Prozac, I guess.
Lindsay to answer your question, yes smoking always made me feel better. Since I have quit I have gone through depression and insomnia and I knew that a cigarette would make me feel better. When I used to get stressed at work or home, a smoke always made me feel better, or if I was cranky having a cigarette put me in a good mood. The cigarettes were absolutly worth the money, but I finally decided they weren’t worth my overall health. Now that I haven’t been smoking for a month, I can say that smoking isn’t all that great, but if I were to start again I am not sure I would ever quit. Hope that answers your question.
You did and I thank you.
A carton of smokes does cost around $40 here (Alberta) and for me, yes, it is worth it.
Hey, I gave up all of my other vices. I needed to keep one, okay?
congratulations, Bluemonchichi.
good luck.
Wait, those were Canadian dollars?
I thought you meant real money…
HomeSlice - Ew. Dip. Gross. Whatever makes one happy. But ew.
Smoking is warm and cuddly in some ways, but like most toxins you need to get a tolerance built up. I have never smoked, but I was dating a guy who did for long enough to get addicted to second hand smoke. That was really odd. I’d only see him on the weekends so by Thursday I would be hanging outside with the other smokers for free lung cancer.
/rolls up sleeves
Dem’s fightin’ words, boy.
Whenever coworkers used to ask me if they could go smoke… I would ask if they minded that I took a twinkie break when they got back. They usually responded, “What are you talking about? I wanna twinkie.”
I don’t think they ever got my point.
Screeme
spooje shows his age…
When I quit smoking, cigs were $1.25 a pack and I thought that was an outrageous price. When I was teen, I used to fill up my tank, buy a carton of butts, pay with a 20 and get back change! (god I’m old) I couldn’t afford to smoke today. (cigs are $3.50 a pack for the generics here!)
And to Bluemonchichi… When I quit smoking, I was in hell for about nine months, suffering from the symptoms you descibed. After the 9, they went away. As did the headaches I always had, the constant wheeze in my chest, the frequent illness’s and the difficulty in sleeping I’ve had since I was a child.
I still love the smell of a freshly lit Marlboro, but I’m glad as hell I don’t smoke!