They're $7.50 a pack in NYC and $6.80 a pack in Philly, when I was up there in
May.  I think they're still about $2.00 a pack here in NC, but this is a
tobacco state, and there's very little interest in imposing a "sin tax" on
cigarettes.

Kat

On Mon, 30 Sep 2002 13:03:39 -0400 Michael H Collis <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

> Anyone check out the prices of a pack?  I don't
> think anyone can afford
> to smoke now...   My dad was a two pack a day
> smoker, until my sister
> and I started getting choked up. He stopped
> about 33 years ago, after
> smoking about 37.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: St. John's University Cerebral Palsy List
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of Kathy Salkin
> Sent: Monday, September 30, 2002 12:12 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Fibromyalgia
>
> Same here.  However the very few times I've
> given in to the impulse, my
> throat
> was so sore for days afterwards, I've never
> been tempted to take it up
> again.
> I know seven years isn't a long time to smoke,
> but I've wondered how I
> did it
> even for that long.  Most I smoked was a
> half-pack a day.  I really
> don't know
> how the 3-pack habits do it, I really don't.
> Guess I wasn't really
> addicted
> to it.  I did it for the socialisation as
> everyone I hung out with in
> high
> school and college smoked, and I met more
> people bumming cigarettes than
> at
> parties.
>
> Kat
>
> On Mon, 30 Sep 2002 11:47:02 -0400 "Cleveland,
> Kyle E."
>  wrote:
>
> > I smoked through college and found it easy to
> > stop too, Kat.  Yet, there are
> > times after a big meal that I still crave a
> > smoke.  Isn't that wild after
> > twenty-some years?
> >
> > -K.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Kathy Salkin
> > [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> > Sent: Monday, September 30, 2002 10:28 AM
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Re: Fibromyalgia
> >
> >
> > Oh, so that's what LSMFT means.  I guess I'm
> > not old enough to remember that
> > commercial; but I do remember the
> Benson&Hedges
> > ones, perhaps because I
> > smoked
> > those as well as Marlboros and Winstons. The
> > Marlboros gave me quite a buzz.
> > My fiance smoked Camels, but I never could
> like
> > those, especially the
> > non-filtered kind.
> >
> > BTW, I quit smoking after seven years; I
> guess
> > I didn't really get into it
> > as
> > it wasn't hard for me to quit at all.
> >
> > Kat
> >
> > On Mon, 30 Sep 2002 10:10:09 EDT "BG Greer,
> > PhD"  wrote:
> >
> > > In a message dated 9/30/02 8:41:35 AM,
> > > [log in to unmask] writes:
> > >
> > > >BTW, any
> > > >'mericans  (besides me) remember the old
> > > LSMFT?
> > > Lucky Strike Means Fine Tobacco! Lucky
> > Strike,
> > > the only cig to give me a buzz.
> > >
> > > Bobby
> > >
> >
>