Only in America when people bitch about gas prices when smoking cigarettes that cost over $11 a pack

[wildman76]

[thatdemguy]

1. Or paying north of 20 bucks a gallon for coffee.

[Tickle]

2. LOL very true

but still funny to read LOL

[hlthe2b]

3. Yes. For so many years I just could not believe how much people paid for cigarettes.

Price is scarcely the main reason I am thankful I never smoked, but it is a damned good one. Alcohol is expensive now too, but at least (for most) less deadly.

[ProfessorGAC]

4. They're $11 A Pack By You?

Wow! My wife smokes, but we buy cartons. About $8 a pack that way.
We're in the fringes of Chicagoland.

[wildman76]

11. New york

[ProfessorGAC]

15. Taxes Differ Everywhere

People east of us cross the state line, because Indiana has lower cig taxes.
Wouldn't pay for me to get her cartons that way because I'd burn the savings in gas, and that was when gas was $2.

[questionseverything]

18. If you buy a rolling machine, tubes and a bag of tobacco

A pack is less than 3 bucks

[Sympthsical]

19. My dad used to drive over the Indiana border

There was no way he was going to pay, "those god damned, motherf***ing Cook County f***ing taxes! F*** those motherf***ers"

And I am directly quoting.

He quit after fifty years after a triple bypass. Zyban did for him.

[claudette]

5. The difference

I see is fuel is a necessity for many reasons. Cigarettes are not.

[IjustDontlikeRepugs]

6. Well I smoke Marlboros. Not proud of it but

I never bitch about gas prices! And, I never smoke while filling up my gas guzzling SUV. That drives me crazy. $8/pack. BTW.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

7. I doubt it's only in America

People probably complain about gas prices in other countries, even though they may also smoke cigs that are also way overpriced there as well.

Also, how do you know that the people who complain about gas prices ... also smoke cigarettes?

Do you have like a Venn diagram you can show us, with stats that illustrate the overlap between the two populations?

[Elessar Zappa]

8. Besides, not that many people smoke anymore.

Last time I looked it up, I believe only 15% of the population smokes.

[wishstar]

9. Plus blowing sizeable bucks every week on losing lottery tickets

I know several people who have spent over $10,000 on lottery scratch- offs since it started in NC in 2006 and only a dozen times or so have they won anything and never more than $50 which they "reinvested" and lost most of their winnings.

Most of my friends who have blown thousands on lottery tickets frequently mention what new houses and vehicles they will buy when they win as if that is a real likelihood and not just a fantasy.

[Torchlight]

10. I finally quit 15 months ago.

Pack a day habit since 1986. Hadn't quit prior to that; I'd dismissed health concerns, ignored the odor of my clothes/car/apartment, and gotten used to ashes any and every where.

But when the better half told me last spring "you known you're spending $250 a month on that stuff, right?" it finally clicked, and I snuffed my last butt. Two hundred and fifty a month. I felt pretty damn stupid right then and there.



For transparency: I immediately began vaping, but crunching then numbers, the cost for that comes down to only ¢.35/day.

[aeromanKC]

12. Holy F'n shit at $8/pack!!

Non smoker here. I remember friends saying if smokes get to $2 I'm quitting. It did. They didn't. But damn, $8. OUCH!!

[doc03]

13. Young folks working minimum wage jobs spend

thousands on tatoos. Then there is ammo at 50 cents to a dollar a round and guns that cost hundreds.

[Raine]

14. Not everyone who complains about the price of gas

smoke $11 a pack cigarettes or smoke at all. Lots of people are just having a hard time and need the gas to get to work.

[H2O Man]

16. Does this include non-smokers?

[wildman76]

17. Just statement about wants and needs that's it

[BannonsLiver]

20. A better comp would be idling in a fast food drive thru.