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9 cans of beer and 20 packs of winstons $250.
tell me what I am doing with my money.
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Now, The money not spent of cigarettes saved up could buy you a new Ferrari. (after 30 years)
Calculating what I would save over the 'next' 30 years not smoking, made me quit cold turkey, successfully Like I wrote, that was back when cigarettes just went up to around $2 a pack.
Comes out to about $43,800 for me. I'll conservatively price a pack of cigarettes between 1977-2016 at $3 per pack per day (along with a buck or two for lighters per month). OTOH smoking put a serious curve on my appetite so I'll take an additional 5% off for that.Health cost associated with smoking is tricky so I'll just leave that out.
I think the worst part for me (had I continued) would have been giving up my favorite cigarette then stepping down to a cheaper, nastier alternate brand just to get that fix.
One of the few (which I can count on my left hand) smartest things I've done in my life.
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that's like low grade acid, you'll lose it.
no way will I give up what I like.
I love my exotic pipe tobacco, when I want to treat myself :)
I have about 50 pipes, some cost $1k...
cheers!
Bon Appetit. Many of us choose our way of slowly killing ourselves.
Doing that, the anxiety will kill you. Choose your poison.
I know what you mean, also constantly checking the price can make you vomit.
You might be able to hire a nice chick to roll cigars for you. Beer might cost you extra though.Have you considered moving to Puerto Rico?
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"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination" -Michael McClure
If you made more you're only damage yourself more.
I started smoking cigarettes in 1972 at age 12. Hell in 8th grade our teachers smoked in the classrooms and we'd (students) would go in the back cloak rooms to smoke in-between class breaks.By age 17; I was a seriously addicted, smoking up to a pack a day. Back then they were about $0.50 a pack. My mom caught me smoking and cut my lunch money from $1 to $0.50 a day. When I heard they were $1 a pack at the airport vending machines (comparable to $10 in todays economy I guess) I knew it was time to bail.
June '77; I remember the Summer well, I flicked the last cigarette away from my grand-dad's rooftop for the last time. Wasn't easy but I never looked back.
For twenty years/off and on I'd dream of 'firing up' a cigarette awaking in the middle of the night relieved that it was just a dream...now thats a powerful drug.
I recently ran into a childhood classmate on facebook who actually taught me 'how' to smoke (as far as inhaling) well he still smokes -and believe it or not he looks reasonably good (despite a couple stints in rehab). Go figure.
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...my father struggled with his cigarette addiction most of his adult life until he was about 55. One day I saw him laying down on the sofa with headphones on listening to a cassette tape while staring at the wall. It was some sort of hypnosis tape. About a week into and he kicked the habit.
Funny thing is my mother never stopped smoking until she was in advanced stages of Alzheimers. There were times when she "forgot" that she smoked. Strange how the mind works.
The human body is tricky; some folks can breakdown the tar (a natural by-product which collects in the lungs), some folks can't. "Tar" was one of the earliest targets in which proponents could tag the tobacco industry with since it appeared conclusively in post modem autopsies. The industry responded in kind with the 'low tar' brands in the early 70s. This amounted to simply 'thicker' filters which most folks simply 'doubled up' their intake to get more of that sweet nicotine.Once it was later found they were adding chemicals in tobacco designed to strengthen the effect of addiction, their house of cards collapsed. The 1999 film 'The Insider' starring Russell Crowe is one of my favorites and captured this brilliantly IMO.
This 'sweetening' of tobacco products peaked around the early 70s, right around the time I (and countless other kids) started smoking.
But again-the human body is weird in it's own kind of way, some of my friends who started around the same time as me could get by with smoking one or two cigarettes a day whereas others (including me) had to have them more frequently. I'm guessing this is one of those 'addictive' vs 'habitual' aspects that got industry off the hook for so long.
In any event no one put a gun to my head and forced me to smoke.
I'm happy to hear of your dad's outcome and condolences to your mom.
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"9 cans of beer and 20 packs of winstons $250."
In ONE day?
Hey, we all have to cope somehow.
;)
thanks a lot,
I have to try to relax, it has been a hardcore week.
So, you didn't get your ass fired? Or have you started burnin' through your retirement money?
:)
my retirement money can be blown in one Weekend in Mexico.
A team of 50 woman and a pound of blow.
I'm not settled yet. It might actually come to that, and then take myself out with barbiturates after I am finished with the coffee and woman.
I'll just keep stacking, I am still working. Doing the "great work".
Smoking and drinking it.......when I smoked back in the day it was Winston's.
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An Indian conglomerate.
Much better tasting since then.
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