Would You Pay $13 For a Pack of Cigarettes?
By MARILYN
@Marilynda1225 (82704)
United States
August 30, 2017 7:50am CST
I just saw on the news that New York is going to raise the price of their cigarettes to $13 a pack which will be the highest in the nation.
I don't smoke and never did but I'm sure this news is not making many New Yorkers happy. I can't imagine paying that much for one pack of cigarettes but if I was a smoker I don't know where my limit would be.
Do you smoke? How much would you pay for a pack of cigarettes?
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21 responses
@Happy2BeMe (99380)
• Canada
30 Aug 17
My fiance smokes and he pays $15 a pack. Those are the cheapest ones you can get here.
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@Happy2BeMe (99380)
• Canada
31 Aug 17
@nanette64 that good. I will tell him, but I know he won't do it. He's stubborn like that when it comes to smoking.
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@nanette64 (20364)
• Fairfield, Texas
31 Aug 17
@Happy2BeMe Men!! What are ya gonna do.
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@Marilynda1225 (82704)
• United States
3 Sep 17
me either but I'm sure there will be people who would pay any amount for a smoke
@AbbyGreenhill (45494)
• United States
30 Aug 17
If I still smoked - yes I would pay the money. Or I'd move south where they are 1/3 that cost. New Yorkers will find a way to get them cheaper. when I smoked I got my cigs on base so I paid very little for them. Maybe if I had to pay full price I would have quit sooner...hum, no I would not have! I enjoyed smoking.
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@nanette64 (20364)
• Fairfield, Texas
30 Aug 17
I can remember back in the day when a pack was .25 @Marilynda1225 . Oh the good 'ole days. I just paid $13.52 for an entire carton. That's only $1.35 per pack ... buy still.
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@Marilynda1225 (82704)
• United States
3 Sep 17
@nanette64 those were the days!!
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@nanette64 (20364)
• Fairfield, Texas
31 Aug 17
@sugartoes Of course that was when you could buy 3 loaves of bread for $1.00 and gas was 19 cents a gallon too.
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@nanette64 (20364)
• Fairfield, Texas
2 Sep 17
@sugartoes I think we need to step into a time machine and go back.
@JohnRoberts (109846)
• Los Angeles, California
30 Aug 17
Never a smoker. On one hand, raising the price is a means of encouraging smokers to quit. But on the other hand, it's exploitation of smokers for a government tax money grab. Government would bemoan if everyone stopped smoking because the tax money flow would cease.
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@AbbyGreenhill (45494)
• United States
30 Aug 17
@nanette64 Different tax structure.
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@Marilynda1225 (82704)
• United States
3 Sep 17
@johnroberts guess the government would get their tax money one way or another
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@nanette64 (20364)
• Fairfield, Texas
30 Aug 17
Exactly @JohnRoberts . They would shift it over to food sources. After all, everybody has to eat don't they?
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@Hatley (163776)
• Garden Grove, California
31 Aug 17
i I do noi smoke soI pay mothing I had to see my poor ubbuy die from heart attacks from smooing three packsw a dau so I hate thethings theu iill people lungs and heart
@TiarasOceanView (70022)
• United States
30 Aug 17
I do not smoke anymore and wow no I would not pay that much.
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@DianneN (247186)
• United States
2 Sep 17
I quit years 20+ years ago and thank heavens my husband stopped before we even married. I don't know a soul who smokes these days except for the ignorant. Our stores don't even sell them anymore! I find that these prices and taxes are awfully high, and it is usually the poor and uneducated who smoke and will pay.
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@Marilynda1225 (82704)
• United States
3 Sep 17
With so many non-smoking places in NY it's a wonder people still find places to smoke (other than their homes and cars)
@lovinangelsinstead21 (36850)
• Pamplona, Spain
30 Aug 17
At that price I hope others can see a motive to give up the habit for once and for all.
I do know that it is not easy to kick that habit either.
@Tampa_girl7 (50188)
• United States
31 Aug 17
I've never smoked. That sounds outrageous though. Maybe some will actually quit
@andriaperry (116936)
• Anniston, Alabama
31 Aug 17
No I would not when I quit they were $2.50 a pack.
Tony quit last year and they were $5 a pack, some places $7, usually he got a carton of Winston for $45.
Lung cancer stopped him, not the price.
@kobesbuddy (78882)
• East Tawas, Michigan
31 Aug 17
@Marilynda1225 Oh my gosh, $13? That would be enough to make any smoker quit!
