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How much is a package ?

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

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

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

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.

$3.50-$3.75 a pack in FL.

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.

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!

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

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.

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???

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.)

Wow Jor, 5 years for me too, Nicoret.

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.

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.

Wow, I am sure that you all enlightened the op about the fact that smoking cigarettes is bad for you. In fact, you have probably already inspired him to stop as a result of unsolicited advice from total strangers.

Wow, what a preachy bunch! I'm guessing it's no surprise to the OP that smoking is bad for your health. And Tandoori-Girl's statement is just plain wrong, not all smokers want to quit. Credit to the two people who actually answered the posted question.

Leave the OP alone. There isn't a smoker still alive that doesn't know how bad smoking is for your health.

By the way, smokers don't smoke for the cigarette but for the nicotine.

A cigarette is the fastest delivery system known to man for a nicotine fix.

Smokers are nicotine addicts not smoking addicts.

Love,
GoTravel (2 1/2 years of being a non-smoker)

Wednesday - the difference is that alcohol is not harmful to most people - only to those few who are alcoholics. In fact- alcohol in moderation is heathful for many people.

Smoking is harmful to everyone - including those around the smoker - who can;t control their involuntary intake.

I too have a family member who's an alcoholic - and while what he's doing to himself is regrettable - at least he's not damaging anyone else's health.

placeu2, a package of cigarettes here in Alberta is now mimimum $10. Depending on where you buy them they can be as high as $12. The price is even higher in B.C. from what I understand.

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"placeu2, a package of cigarettes here in Alberta is now minimum $10. Depending on where you buy them they can be as high as $12."

Well now, at .50 a pop things are getting out of control. Glad that I am a cigar smoker and not burning up that kind of cash.

:& Whoops I might get taken out to the Fodors shed for that admission.

Oh boy placeu2, that was brave!!

smoke free 3 months and counting- cold turkey

cigs are still cheaper in the south VA, NC, SC, FL, all about the same if you shop around- less than $4 and around $30 carton

greenfieldhunter, are you sure a carton in fl is around $30 ?

If ya hafta ask you can't afford it.
Buy a gun to use on yourself it's quicker and cheaper

hi nytraveler,
I agree with you except for me personally I have been physically and mentally hurt by an alcoholic and so have many others who become victims of drunk drivers, etc. I do understand your explanation of the responsible intake of alcohol and unwilling effects on people around a smoker, I guess it is just an issue I feel strongly about and was compelled to comment. Thanks for your expressing your point of view to me kindly...

sorry- I know I am way off it here and I just realized I didn't have a "point" ...My real point was that when I began to read the posts bashing him instead of answering his questions, it made me think how ironic and sad it is that we treat smoking as a dirty, bad shameful habit that somepne should just "stop" and now force people to be quarantined in public, etc. when years ok it was normal and overlooked. And I felt it ironic that alcohol consumption and alcoholism is socially accepted or a disease that people need medical treatment for. I think many people "have a few" and drive or interact with people innappropriately and just because they don't get caught and it is "legal" it is considered "like it doesn't affect many people". That all, have a good weekend ! sorry for the messy thoughts and inability to express them properly.

If the cost of a pack of cigarettes impacts your travel plans, stay home.

My grandmother, god rest her soul, once said, "Roger, you don't smoke, the cigarette smokes." "You're the sucker".

Well said by Grandma, Roger.

I am glad to report I have been off the nicotine going into 8 years now.

On Thanksgiving Day, 1997, my stepdaughter announced her pregnancy. I decided then and there to quit! That beautiful baby (will be 7 in July) loves for me to tell her the story of why I quit smoking cigarrettes!

So, I say let's lay off the OP and let him/her smoke. Everyone quits when they are ready...or.....broke!!!!

Wednesday, I feel your point is valid and well stated. Cigarettes kill smokers and the 2nd hand smoke thing has recently come to light, sure.

But drunk drivers kill completely innocent people who they have never and will never meet. That doesn't even begin to open the can of worms about emotional and mental harm alcoholics do to themselves, family, friends.

We all dies sooner or later.
Im going to FL , just wanted to know what the prices are now i think $30 for a carton is ok :)

Smokyboy, my tobacco of choice was chewing tobacco. A 21 year habit. I was so addicted I had it in my mouth when I was sleeping. In the morning it was the first thing in my mouth again. 24 hours a day. I really feel disgusted now that I did that to myself. In the past five years I have not touched it once and have no cravings at all. But I have dreams at night that I am using it again and wake up so releived that it was only a dream.

I dont think some know how much of an addiction it really is. I not saying it is ok to smoke but, but sometimes it just takes control of your life. I know from personal experience. My father smoked for 50 years and got cancer in the mouth. The cancer was so bad that he had to have his entire jaw removed and recontructed. He had to learn to eat, talk and swallow all over again. He was never able to have teeth ever again so he had to eat food that was pureed. Long story short the cancer ended up coming back and ate a hole in his cheek about the size of a quarter. Yes a hole. You could see all the way into his mouth. He passed away last year after a very painful illness. But you know what the kicker of the whole story is? He smoke until the day he died. Like I said I dont think people know how much of an addiction it really is.

I almost regret that i started this thread !