$7.50 a pack? 25 years ago that would have purchased 3 cartons! Looks like the tort lawyers and state treasuries are have created a money pipeline.
Gads, I sound like my father.
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When I started smoking cigarettes cost $.16 a pack from a machine. You put 2 dimes in the machine and the pack came out with 4 pennies under the wrapper.
35 years later when I quit they were about $11.00/carton. It will be 20 years this fall since I quit cold turkey. I'm quite sure if I hadn't quit I wouldn't be here typing.
Quitting was the hardest thing I ever did until I had to bury my son. He was never able to quit.
35 years later when I quit they were about $11.00/carton. It will be 20 years this fall since I quit cold turkey. I'm quite sure if I hadn't quit I wouldn't be here typing.
Quitting was the hardest thing I ever did until I had to bury my son. He was never able to quit.
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When I started smoking cigarettes were $0.20/pack for regulars and $0.25/pack for filtered ends. Never spent the extra cash for about 10 years for the filters, always smoked em nekkid.
Said I would quit when they hit $0.50/pack, butt I didn't
Said I would quit when they hit $1.00/pack, butt I didn't
Said I would quit when they hit $20.00/carton, butt I didn't
Said I would quit when my son was born, butt I didn't
Said I would quit when my daughter was born, butt I didn't
Said I would quit when my 3 other daughters were born, butt I didn't
Said I would quit when cigs hit $80.00/carton, butt I didn't
Quit cold turkey 20 minutes before I felt the worst pain I have ever felt in my entire life. 2 days later I got the bad news on my arteries. Since then, I have been fortunate enough to get a second and a third chance at living to old age, I WILL NEVER, EVER touch another cigarette PERIOD I smoked anywhere from 3 to 4 packs a day for almost 40 years -- the first couple of years I started out slow. I sure wish I had listened to my parents/teachers/friends and family back then, wish I had listened to Em years ago, but I was too stubborn. Almost killed me. Way to go dummy me
Said I would quit when they hit $0.50/pack, butt I didn't
Said I would quit when they hit $1.00/pack, butt I didn't
Said I would quit when they hit $20.00/carton, butt I didn't
Said I would quit when my son was born, butt I didn't
Said I would quit when my daughter was born, butt I didn't
Said I would quit when my 3 other daughters were born, butt I didn't
Said I would quit when cigs hit $80.00/carton, butt I didn't
Quit cold turkey 20 minutes before I felt the worst pain I have ever felt in my entire life. 2 days later I got the bad news on my arteries. Since then, I have been fortunate enough to get a second and a third chance at living to old age, I WILL NEVER, EVER touch another cigarette PERIOD I smoked anywhere from 3 to 4 packs a day for almost 40 years -- the first couple of years I started out slow. I sure wish I had listened to my parents/teachers/friends and family back then, wish I had listened to Em years ago, but I was too stubborn. Almost killed me. Way to go dummy me
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rudi, guess i'll have to jump in here....smoked 20 years...from a teenager to about age 37....... type a personality, run a business..driven, as they say.
nurse in the emergancy room took my pack of cigarettes and said (i'll never forget, even though i though i was in not to good shape) you won't need these any longer....and tossed them in the trash. doc said...did you take anything, cocaine, speed, whatever... cause i was only 37.. i said no, nothing... he said, then you are having a heart attack.
that was 13 years ago.. dont smoke, its not worth it.
nurse in the emergancy room took my pack of cigarettes and said (i'll never forget, even though i though i was in not to good shape) you won't need these any longer....and tossed them in the trash. doc said...did you take anything, cocaine, speed, whatever... cause i was only 37.. i said no, nothing... he said, then you are having a heart attack.
that was 13 years ago.. dont smoke, its not worth it.
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True enough. The Lord will call us home when it is in HIS time.
I do believe though that we should make the best of it whilst we are here. Too many times we are preached at by those who believe that they know our lives better than we do, or better than we wish to live them. I will not preach to anyone as I resisted preaching for years. It is not the place of others to tell me how to live my life, nor mine to tell anyone else.
But I will say this though. When something like a heart attack or a bout with cancer touches you, or some other major life obstacle occurs, your attitudes change rather drastically and you start payin attention to your wife and doctors This is not necessarily a bad thing...
True enough. The Lord will call us home when it is in HIS time.
I do believe though that we should make the best of it whilst we are here. Too many times we are preached at by those who believe that they know our lives better than we do, or better than we wish to live them. I will not preach to anyone as I resisted preaching for years. It is not the place of others to tell me how to live my life, nor mine to tell anyone else.
But I will say this though. When something like a heart attack or a bout with cancer touches you, or some other major life obstacle occurs, your attitudes change rather drastically and you start payin attention to your wife and doctors This is not necessarily a bad thing...
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You don't want to quit like my father did. Labor day 1959 he had an appendex attack. They had to operate because it had burst. Dad had a spinal. While they were sewing him up he started asmokers cough. The dr literally layed accross him holding him together so that the cough did not tear the stitches the had in so far out. Still took me 10 years and with my kids ragging me. My brother bob didn't quit till he had infasima and is gone 3 years now. I don't preach but I do point out that we while all have a$$ holes, only a select few can be one. I then ask if they are one of the select few.
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Last week, one of the guys I work with started having some pain that was quickly worsening. Another of my coworkers drove him ot the hospital ER, which is only about 2 blocks away. He was having a heart attack. From the time they left the office, he was getting a catheterization and stents put in within 20 minutes. That 20 minutes turned out to be plenty of time in which to quit smoking.
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