Can anyone tell me the price of a pack of cigarettes today?

[dixiegrrrrl]

I quit 13 years ago.
Now I am curious as to how much $$ I have saved over the years.

So, to that end, I need to know the price of a pack of...say Marlboro regular,
which seems to be a very popular brand.
I know the price varies according to location so that info, would be helpful too.
where I live, there is a 9.5% sales tax on everything.

Any info would be appreciated. I will not assume any answers come from a current smoker, btw....

[Tuesday Afternoon]

1. depends on brand and quantity. they are selling single cigs at the register now --

have been for a few years.

per pack premium brands are pushing on five bucks a pack. offbrands are less. not real sure cos I am not a smoker either.

kind of keep an eye out as an economic indicator though.

[tk2kewl]

2. I quit almost 2 years ago and a pack in NYC was up to about $12 at the time

[Kali]

49. no shit?

[tk2kewl]

78. Bloomberg piled on the taxes

I had an ashtray with his picture on the bottom for a while.

[Motown_Johnny]

3. I don't smoke but I think the less expensive brands are near $6.00 in MI

[cbayer]

4. It varies widely, depending on location and state/local taxes.

On a recent road trip, I found the lowest prices in Virginia ($4 - 5/pack) and the highest in NYC (up to $15/pack)

[Wait Wut]

5. $2.70

...on the reservation when bought in a carton. "Native" brand.

[siligut]

10. I saw a huge sign on one of the smoke shops in Seattle, $24.99 for a carton

I am guessing they are generic smokes and don't know how many packs come to a carton, but if it is 10 . . .

And we have legal gambling here too, I think because of the reservation rules.

[Wait Wut]

11. They aren't technically "generic".

They're Native American made, no chemicals. Much better than the big name brands. And, yes, same amount of smokes and packs per carton. We have two casinos and a resort on the reservation here.

[RiffRandell]

6. I smoke (lightly) yellow American Spirits.

They were $5 a pack at Walgreens yesterday. Good deal, imo.

[ScreamingMeemie]

8. That's a GREAT deal.

We sell them for $6.49/pack.

[RiffRandell]

9. Thanks SM!

I thought so too! Even better than Quiktrip!

[Mosby]

26. American Spirit cigs have the highest amount of freebase nicotine tested

http://tobaccofreeweld.wordpress.com/2009/04/27/american-spirit-number-one-for-freebasing/

Back in the 60s Phillip Morris figured out how to make cigs even more addictive and at the same time reduce the amount of tobacco used, quite a feat when you think about it.

http://philipmorrissux.wikispaces.com/file/view/nicotine+freebasing.pdf

[RiffRandell]

29. Great. Just what I needed to hear.

Probably still won't make me quit, but thanks for the bad info. Smoking sucks all the way around. Except for the illegal kind.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

33. that is by far, the funniest thing I have heard all day. You rock !! nt

[RiffRandell]

34. Well, I'm glad I made someone laugh.

I'm in the dog house tonight.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

36. why? aren't you watching b-ball ? nt

[ScreamingMeemie]

7. I work at a neighborhood store. Marlboro's sell for $5.69/pack

With the 8 percent tax here, that would be $6.10/pack. Stores here sell them anywhere from $5.49-6.49. Hope I have helped.

[LynneSin]

12. If you lived in Delaware that's about $6 a pack

If you smoked a pack a day that would be about $2200 a year.

Let's just say that each of the past 13 years the price of cigarettes were raised by 5%

You'd be able to buy yourself a decent size mid-price car.

[benld74]

13. 5-6 in Saint Louis I have heard 11-12 in NYC

[dixiegrrrrl]

14. Wow. Thank you all so much.

Jaw dropping.

Mr. Dixie quit smoking about 2 years ago, I can hardly wait to *casually* mention current prices.

gosh, at even a pack a day..hmmm..let's see....say 6.00 a pack here
( counting that pesky 9.5% sales tax) x 30 days...equals...180.00 a month
x12=......$2,160 a year.

and that is conservative, at rate of only 1 pack a day....

gulp...

Kinda makes you want to buy stock in a cigarette company.

[OriginalGeek]

15. I remember once turning to my friend and proclaiming:

"A DOLLAR FIFTY?! A PACK? I will NEVER pay a dollar fifty for a pack of cigarettes."


When I quit 9 years ago they were right at $3.50 for Marlboro red box. And I was up to 2.5~3 packs a day.

The lowest I remember paying was 69 cents a pack in North Carolina in the early 80s.

In the intervening years since I quit I seem to have replaced tobacco with food. 9 years and a solid 60 pounds later the smoke won't get me but the cholesterol probably will.

[RebelOne]

19. I am old enough to remember when cigarettes were 25 cents a pack.

I am 73 and am still smoking. It helps control my appetite. I am also a vegetarian, so cholesterol won't get me, but lung disease probably will.

[OriginalGeek]

22. I ain't gonna lie

There are many days each week I get a powerful craving for a cig.

I've given in maybe 3 or 4 times in the last 9 years.


And I will smoke 3~6 cigars a year.


Probably more this year because we are going to spend a week in Vegas this summer and I think it it will be fun to smoke a cigar in Vegas. I don't know why I have that in my head but I do.

[dixiegrrrrl]

23. 1963, driving thru Texas, cigs and a gallon of gas were both 25 cents.

I think the gigantic hamburger we bought at a drive in was 25 cents too.

that was in the day when a man could work and support wife and kids and buy a decent house easily on a months salary.

[Graybeard]

28. Vending machine cigs 23 cents.

Yeah, it was back in the days of the dinosaurs.

We put a quarter in the machine. Filter tips were 25 cents, but non-filters were only 23 cents and there were two pennies under the cellophane on the pack.

[Art_from_Ark]

73. That reminds me of the story of the 1955 Doubled Die Lincoln cent

The 1955 Doubled Die is one of the most sought-after and expensive pennies ever made in the last 100 years. There was a dramatic doubling of the design when the obverse (heads) die was made, with the result that if you looked at the heads side of the minted cent, you might think you had blurred vision. A large proportion of those pennies made their way to the public through cigarette vending machines-- 2 cents change in each pack. Today even the "cheap" ones are worth hundreds of dollars. Probably the only time when spending money on cigarettes wasn't a total waste of funds.

[Graybeard]

76. Oh no!! Don't tell me.

I may have had two of these every time I bought a pack?

Who knew to look at pennies??

[Suich]

16. $9.25 a pack at my corner store (Seattle.)

$75.00 carton at smoke shops.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

17. almost $13 in nyc

i win this thread hands down

[RebelOne]

18. Here in Georgia, the average price

for Marlboro Ultra Light 100s is $4.59. A carton is $46 at the Quik Trip gas stations.

[dixiegrrrrl]

30. 46.00 a carton????

My Scroogie mind is melting......

[RebelOne]

64. Yup, that is what I have been paying for the past 2 weeks.

But the price could change by next week and end up being almost $50 a carton.

[mikeSchmuckabee]

20. Just bought a pack $5.45

camel lights tobacco superstore north little rock arkansas.

[WilliamPitt]

21. $8.60 in Boston

[Broken_Hero]

24. For my poison

2.75 for a pack of Pall Mall Ultra Light 100's...SW Missouri.

[graywarrior]

25. Your lungs?

[Laura PourMeADrink]

35. Ouch GW nt

[graywarrior]

38. Too harsh?

[Laura PourMeADrink]

39. LY GW

[graywarrior]

41. .

[NYC_SKP]

52. I quit on November 18, 2010.

Not a puff since then, can't do it, not ever, no more smoking.

Damn it was a hard thing to quit.

[graywarrior]

54. Good!

And yeah, it's way hard, but you did it.

[dixiegrrrrl]

69. I dO so understand. Congratulations!!!!!

Kicking nicotine is so very hard, people don't realize until they try it.

Now when I even get a whiff of tobacco smoke, I get very nauseated.

[bigwillq]

27. I pay between $6.75-7

for a pack of Fortuna in CT.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

32. where in CT? I grew up there. I miss it. Coming up

this summer, to the shore. woo-hoo,

[bigwillq]

37. New Haven County

Work in New Haven. Live in a suburb just outside of it.


I can't wait to go to the beaches this summer!

[Laura PourMeADrink]

40. Old Lyme. August. Be there. :>) have you

ever been to the Thimble Islands? Went there last summer. Can't believe
I had never heard of it before. Small state, but yet so big, huh?

[bigwillq]

45. Yes, I've been to Thimble.

Very pretty! Old Lyme is very nice too. The CT Shoreline really is beautiful.

[grasswire]

63. tell me about Thimble Islands?

My family was in CT from the 1630s-1924. Various family members settled many towns. I've never heard of Thimble Islands. Is it anywhere near Old Saybrook?

[Laura PourMeADrink]

68. Thimbles

"The Thimble Islands is an archipelago consisting of small islands in Long Island Sound, located in and around the harbor of Stony Creek in the southeast corner of Branford, Connecticut.

The archipelago of islands made up of Stony Creek pink granite bedrock were once the tops of hills prior to the last ice age. As a result, the Thimble Islands are much more stable than most other islands in Long Island Sound, which are terminal moraines of rubble deposited by retreating glaciers. "
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thimble_Islands

They have a cool boat ride tour - if you go back for a visit. Jane Pauley leaves on one of them...but they won't tell you which one. But most of the tiny little islands have just one house on them. Much victorian architecture.

I lived in CT my first 20 years and had never heard of the Thimbles either !

[grasswire]

70. how charming

Not far from Gardiner's Island, which of course I know about. Not too too far from Plum Island, where two generations of my ancestors were lighthousekeepers in the 19th century.

Veddy interesting. I'd sure like to live there.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

74. They have very strict building and environmental regulations. One island that someone

bought ended up being too small to build on, so the buyer found a little loophole and built
a gazebo and boat ramp on it.

I bet your ancestors visited there. Evidently, long ago, it used to be a very popular
upscale resort. there were hotels and bars - and the wealthy would sail up there
from NYC. However, there was a big fire that burnt everything down.

NYTimes:
http://travel.nytimes.com/2007/06/24/travel/24explorer.html?pagewanted=all

Not too long ago, someone searched all the property records and somehow found one
that no one owned - and they go to just claim it - like in the olden days.

Here's a bit more:
http://www.thimbleislands.com/website/Discover.html
http://www.thimbleislands.com/website/Yankee_Magazine.html

This has nothing to do with CT, but my favorite place to go was Block Island. Have
you been there? Old victorian hotels still there. Like walking back in time.

where do you live now?

[grasswire]

75. My grandmother used to visit Block Island

She loved the whole coastal area. Greenport, Block Island, Niantic, Old Saybrook, etc. I have been to Connecticut and to Old Saybrook but not any of the islands. My grandparents left CT in 1924 with their six young children and drove across the country before roads were even paved in some areas, to re-locate on the west coast. I definitely feel my roots in New England.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

31. 6.60 ish in TX nt

[dimbear]

42. I have an unopened pack from 1936, they're still good, right? n/t

[dixiegrrrrl]

43. Vintage cigarettes..a collector's item!!!

[dimbear]

57. Kerry Blue, with a Kerry Blue terrier on the front.

I looked them up, not unfortunately valuable.

[rug]

44. $6.32 in PA.

[Ruby the Liberal]

46. I paid $76.80 for a carton today.

When I started smoking, they were $0.75 a pack.

HATE these things.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

47. yikes...where do you live? What happened to internet cigs? thought they

were supposed to be cheap?

[Ruby the Liberal]

50. Was in Mid-Upstate NJ, south enough to not be NYC metro

where I have paid over $14.50 for a pack (midtown)

No idea on internet buys - never looked into it. I bounce back and forth between the stinky fuckers and an e-cig.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

51. It would almost be worth it to take a trip down to FL, just to buy cigarettes. Googled it

the other day and it said Florida had the cheapest cigarettes. I remember, growing up, going to
NYC and they were $7 in a machine and thinking how outrageous that was.

[Ruby the Liberal]

55. No kidding. Now just tell my subconscious that

after all of these years, quit attempts and the like - that THIS one is it.

I will happily paypal you if you can nail this.

Replacement techniques, aversion therapy, ecigs, pharma, cold turkey, hypnosis - been there. This shit will drag my stinking corpse to its grave.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

58. just give in to it. far less stress that way. But if not...Just cut down. A doctor told

me that the basic problem is nicotine addiction that you have to be weened off of.

He said, start for 2 weeks smoking 20 a day

Then, two weeks smoking 19 a day

Two weeks, 18 a day, etc etc

It will take a long time, but it will break the addiction

[dixiegrrrrl]

60. When I quit smoking, I used what is now known as Zyban.

April 1998.
Our clinic psychiatrist , bless his heart, gave me a script for Wellbutrin, ( same thing as Zyban now)
and I took it for something like 10 days before I quit cigs.
But..I was ready to seriously quit....very determined.
And I had quit for periods of several years in the past.
And I "only" smoked about 1 pack a day.
My motivation was a then recent story on how the tobacco companies had admitted adding more nicotine to cigs
to keep people hooked.
I got so damn mad at that.
Anger has always been a great motivator for me to make big life changes.

[Ruby the Liberal]

62. Tried that in 2002.

Really messed my head up. I was suicidal at one point (I want to say after about 5-6 days) and was watched for 4 days until it was out of my system. It was insane and really, really frightening. They now have it in my medical records under allergies (Bupripion) so that no one gives it to me for any reason.

Anger is a GREAT motivator. I too find that I get much more determined on something if I am pissed than if it makes me happy.

[NYC_SKP]

53. For two cartons at that price I quit.

It took three visits over several years before one of the three separate tries actually stuck.

Hypnosis, same clinic, I guess the third time is a charm. $100 or $150, I forget, back in November 2010.

Not a puff since that day!

[Ruby the Liberal]

56. Thank you for reminding to 'never quit quitting'.

You never know.

[Xipe Totec]

48. About four hours of lifetime per pack.

I quit 30 years ago, I smoked 2 packs per day, so I've extended my life span by ten years.

[HopeHoops]

59. I think about $5. When I quit, anything over $1 was expensive (and only machines cost that).

[yellerpup]

61. I bought a pack in Grand Central Terminal (NYC)

last year. They were $14.99!

[Texasgal]

65. I bought a package for a friend

a few weeks ago and they were 5.95 + Tax.

[mrmpa]

66. I roll my own, it comes to about $2.35 a pack...if I buy a brand it's $6.37 a pack eom

[mokawanis]

77. That's the way to do it

I've been rolling my own for a couple of years and have saved a ton of money. My expenses work out to less than $25 a carton while my wife spends $70 a carton.

[Major Hogwash]

67. What kind of cigars does pigman smoke?

Does anyone know?
Does anyone know how much they cost?

[A HERETIC I AM]

71. I buy Marlboro light Special Blend by the carton at a truckstop in GA....

that I am at regularly.

$32/carton.

With tax about $34, so...$3.40 a pack.

[dixiegrrrrl]

72. Gosh....at, say, 1 pack a day...

which is what I smoked......
10 packs to a carton..
comes to about 100.00 a month for cigs....
on my budget that is serious money.

[Grantuspeace]

79. I have a buddy that said, "I'll quit when they are $1.00 a pack."

Or $2 or $3..... On and on...
Actually, quitting smoking is easy. I know several people that have quit many times.