Grisslehamn

How much is a package ?

smilingcats

Not sure, actually. When cigs went over $2 a pack, I slapped a patch on the cats.

jor

You got it bad. Nicoret will be cheaper in the long run. It worked for me. Five years tobacco-free.

Patrick

How much does a pack of cigarettes cost? About the same as a life.

beckers2482

one cigarette = 7 minutes off the end of your life

I'm not a smoker, so I don't know how many are in a pack. 20? If so, then one pack would cost about 2 hours and twenty minutes of your life. Two packs a day, 4 hours and 40 minutes. In a week, 32 hours and 40 minutes. In a year, 70 and 3/4 days. If you smoke for 20 years, 3.9 years.

Give yourself and your family the best gift of all - a healthy you that will be around longer to enjoy and share life with your loved ones.

And yes, I do have the right to say this. I spent two weeks with my grandfather as he lay in the hospital dying of lung cancer after smoking for 50 years. There's nothing like watching someone you love suffer. He was drugged up on morphine, and still in pain. He lived for two days with a blood pressure so low, his doctors had never seen anything like it. His pulse was undetectible for the last 36 hours of his life. Our whole family sat there, listening to his every breath, waiting to see if he would take another. Finally, he didn't.

Save your family that agony. Please quit smoking.

JJason

$3.50-$3.75 a pack in FL.

Tandoori_Girl

I was in line at a grocery store waiting for someone in front of me to get hers. They were close to $40 for a carton. Some people go to the Seminole Indian reservations to buy them tax-free. You should just run a troll post on fodors when you feel like lighting up. It's a lot more fun and healthier too.

sunlover

Remember too in FL you can buy cigarettes but like CA you can't smoke indoors. I love going to restaurants and not having to answer the question about smoking or non smoking section. And I also love being able to go out to bar for a drink and not having to fignt the smoke and come home with my clothes and hair smelling!

michelleNYC

Wow! $3.00-3.75!! They should raise the price to $8.50-9.00 like it is here in NYC!!

wantsomesun

Both my parents DIED because they were smokers, my Father at the age of 56 and my Mother just 2 years ago at 85, both of their passings were painful and sad.

I have never even thought of smoking, and encourage friends to stop.

Smoking has been found to also be worse for women. Aterties become hard and do not allow for blood to flow, and my Mother died from blood poisioning her foot and leg died, it was awful.

rb_travelerxATyahoo

I'm not a smoker, and detest it. But the OP didn't ask what we thought about smoking, but what the price of the product is.

I don't think there's a smoker who doesn't admit to what a bad habit it is, but our nagging provides little, if any motivation to quit. Just like any other drug.

So how much IS a pack???

Patrick

If someone did a post here saying they were seriously considering killing themself, and asking for advice how to do it -- don't you think others would not answer their question directly, but try to talk them out of it?

Well, that is exactly what this post is.

michelleNYC

Like I said... since we're talking about price, just quadruple it and see how many people stop smoking because it would just be plain stupid to spend, say, $12.00-$16.00 on a pack.

Tandoori_Girl

Nagging and smoker-bashing DOES have an affect. My mom quit because she just couldn't take all the negative responses. And she hated being shunted to the outdoors to smoke. So it does work, and why not give it a try? All smokers want to quit.

maryann

I was agreeing with everything until I got to the last post (before mine).

Tandoori - not all want to quit. Speaking from personal experience. They really want to keep smoking and have all the 'anti-' laws go away and someone invent 'safe smoking' cigs, etc.

I quit last year because 'It is the right thing to do' not because I wanted to stop.

I encourage all to stop (not demand) because we will not be able to smoke safely in our lifetime.

and if anyone quits and doesn't think (or desire) it again-is living in a dreamworld.

Scarlett

All the nagging in the world would not make my mom stop smoking. It took sitting by the side of her father while he died of lung cancer to make her throw away her cigarettes.
I have an inlaw who has had a double mastectomy, she still smokes.
There is no figuring out what is in someone elses head when it comes to smoking cigarettes.
The price of a pack of cigarettes in Florida is about $3.50.

nytraveler

Agree that everyone should be encouraged to stop. My SIL just lost her dad to lung cancer - he had kept on smoking even after watching his wife incapacitated for years by emphysema (she died right before Christmas). The ones I feel most sorry for are all their grandchildren who won;t have their grandparents at college graduations and weddings.

Thank god my parents had the sense to quit almost 30 years ago - and are still with us and going strong in their 80s.

I don;t understand why every state doesn;t take the attitude of NY versus this massive publich health issue: ban smoking wherever possible and put huge taxes on the cigarettes to pay for public education campaigns and healthcare for the victims. (Cigs are about $9 per pack here - all extra taxes.)

Smokyboy

Wow Jor, 5 years for me too, Nicoret.

Wednesday

I hate smoking too, detest it...but (and I can't believe I am saying this) if he had asked how much a bottle of liquor is, he would of gotten kinder responses, cocktail recipes, etc....but alcohol can be a killer too, and from personal experience if I HAD to choose, unfortunately I would rather have someone close to me smoking (and I have watched my grandmother die from it) than being an alcoholic and watching them deteriorate from that...unfortunately they are both. I hate the attitude that alcohol is ok and cool and other bad things are not. People eat and drink things every day that affect their bodies adversly but because there is no stigma, it is deemed "ok". Sorry-just my opinion, we all have one.

placeu2

Wow! Anybody care to discuss politics?

Think cigs are expensive here, you ought to go to Canada. I was in Alberta in 1993 and I distinctly remember (even as a non smoker) that the machine price in a restaurant was $7.50. Shudder to think what it is today.