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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Get a good box mod and start vaping... ejuice, even the good stuff, will save you tons of $ over old fashioned traditional coffin nails.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2130 Posts |
I would have to assume that a pack of smokes would be under $5 here in Eastern NC considering I live in what use to be one of the best bright leaf tobacco growing and selling markets in the world. They still grow it everywhere they can around here.
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12/23/2015 08:30 am
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Pillar of the Community
United States
982 Posts |
No one would buy those coins on ebay, because the seller could not claim the coins were from a "smoke-free home."  |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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They do not care it is different, especially in the face of desperation or addiction. Also most people don't have the "hang up" about silver in their coins that we many here do. Most people today have never seen silver coins in their change on a regular basis. You have to be nearly 60 years old to remember having silver coins for everyday use. To people younger than that a dime is a dime is a dime, and a quarter is just a quarter. I have to admit I would think they would realize the dollar coins were something special because you don't see them in your change. |
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United States
127 Posts |
I almost met up with a guy on craigslist who had some Presidential dollars and "one with an indian head on it" he wanted a tiny premium for them, the indian head turned out to be a gold quarter eagle...he spent all of them on a pack of smokes before the sale went through, then he had the guts to email me back and ask if I thought they were worth anything....IDIOT is all I have to say! |
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United States
343 Posts |
Just proves there are still people who don't know, and we can all benefit from them.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1132 Posts |
Wowza. I get it that some people don't know that some pre '64 coinage is silver, but when you see a date nearly a century ago on a coin...
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Fifty years ago my mother bought my Dads wedding band using Peace and Morgan's at face value. I'm told my grandfather was livid.
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Russian Federation
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When I saw such a ludicrously huge price, I actually thought that the cigarettes were made of silver. Then I realized that, in that case, they would be worth more like $47 There aren't really any cigarettes more expensive than $2 (per pack) in Moscow, other than in the really high end places. Of the stuff that's sold in regular stores, the higher-end packs are $1.5 or so, the lower-end are usually under a dollar. If the cigarette prices are really that high in the US, it might explain why smoking is becoming less common... or maybe the American packs are bigger than the Russian ones (a standard Russian pack has 20 cigarettes). |
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United States
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Just proves there are still people who don't know, and we can all benefit from them. 99.9% of the population just doesn't know! But at the same time, if you see a weird looking big silvery coin, it does deserve some questioning even if you don't collect coins. |
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Canada
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I don't smoke and had no idea those things cost $4.70 Well.. We don't smoke either haven't for a long long time but, someone the other day told me, that a pack of cigs was $15.00 here in Canada.  |
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Bedrock of the Community
 United States
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I will have to ask, next time I am in Tom Thumb, how much a pack of cigarettes are. The lady did have some Ike's and SBA's, so the cigarettes could have been more than the $4.70. |
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
2843 Posts |
Maybe it was a time traveler from early 1900's who made a stop in 1964 and just needed a nicotine fix. Highly probable.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Here in Indiana the generics are just a little under $4 a pack, the name brands around $6.25 a pack, and January1may, that is for packs of 20 cigarettes. The prices are super high for two reasons. One is tax revenue because they know that addicts will pay it. The other is to discourage smoking by making it expensive. But they aren't really that serious about the second reason, if they were when they increase the tax per pack (by as much as a dollar or two a pack) they wouldn't phase it in over a long period like they do. You pass a dollar a pack increase but phase it in over a one or two year period you give the addicts a chance to slowly adjust to the gradually increasing price and they keep smoking. You pass a $2 increase and have the whole thing go into effect next week, you'll have more people quitting.
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