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by John » Wed Apr 08, 2020 04:05 pm
Whoa! $115 a carton? Mom was getting them for about $40 a little over a year ago. The price of cigarettes in Canada went crazy a couple of decades ago and everyone started getting it by the bag and rolling their own. I tried that for a while but I was spending hours at a time just rolling enough for a day, so that didn't last long. If cigarettes go the way of toilet paper, I'm figuring I can still probably get tobacco by the bag. Even in Missouri where the tobacco tax is lower than anywhere else, over half the cost of a cigarette is in taxes.
I have no doubt that cigarettes are dangerous and hard on you at best, but I think they're making the same mistake in making them politically incorrect as they did with drugs back when I was in school. I remember watching anti-drug movies and lectures where marijuana smokers were having "psychedelic trips" and hallucinations, which was of course, completely idiotic and I think it backfired. If adults were lying about marijuana, they were probably lying about everything else. I see them doing the same thing about cigarettes now, blaming them for everything from toenail fungus to bad teeth. Some of those "Truth" commercials are just as ridiculous. I'm afraid it'll backfire too. John