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**gambleingsites** · 08-16-2011, 07:54 PM

http://www.cnn.com/2011/OPINION/08/1...tml?hpt=hp_bn9

(CNN) -- On a trip to New York this summer, I was in the newsstand/gift shop of a hotel, and a man in front of me in line was purchasing something. I heard the clerk say to him: "That will be $18.30."

He handed her his money, and she handed him a pack of cigarettes. He thanked her and left.

"A pack of cigarettes costs $18.30?" I said to the clerk.

"That's our most inexpensive price," she said. "Some of them are over $20."

"And people pay that for them?" I asked.

"All day long," she said.

Really? $18 for a PACK of cigarettes? I never understood how people pay so much for cigarettes. Yes I know addictions cause people to do crazy things. I tried smoking, smoked a few times, didn't like it so I didn't do it. I guess I don't have as much of an addictive behavior as others...but $18?!

I've tried to tell friends "you know how much you would save if you quit smoking..."

08-16-2011, 07:54 PM	#1
gambleingsites Join Date Nov 2005 Posts 592 Senior Member	Can scary labels, scary taxes end smoking? http://www.cnn.com/2011/OPINION/08/1...tml?hpt=hp_bn9 (CNN) -- On a trip to New York this summer, I was in the newsstand/gift shop of a hotel, and a man in front of me in line was purchasing something. I heard the clerk say to him: "That will be $18.30." He handed her his money, and she handed him a pack of cigarettes. He thanked her and left. "A pack of cigarettes costs $18.30?" I said to the clerk. "That's our most inexpensive price," she said. "Some of them are over $20." "And people pay that for them?" I asked. "All day long," she said. Really? $18 for a PACK of cigarettes? I never understood how people pay so much for cigarettes. Yes I know addictions cause people to do crazy things. I tried smoking, smoked a few times, didn't like it so I didn't do it. I guess I don't have as much of an addictive behavior as others...but $18?! I've tried to tell friends "you know how much you would save if you quit smoking..."
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