I found myself today nearing a work account and I never travel without plenty smokes in the truck but shame on me, I did today. I smoke non-filter and I had 3 stores I knew of enroute to my horseshoeing gig. The first 2 carried no non-filters of any kind. The 3rd was a 7-11 and they had PallMalls, my old brand (switched to generics years ago) I gotta have em, I am a lifelong dedicated smoker. Oh yeah, I knew be ready to pay. I watched em hit the $4 mark, few months ago I bought a pack under similar circumstances and it took a $5 bill plus change. Today my 52 yr old butt visited that plateau known as $6.52 for a pack. Sweet Mother of Emphysema, this is gittin outta hand.:mad:
There are mitigating factors that really chaffs my hide. #1: The few packs of PallMalls I have smoked in the past cpl yrs go out and have to be constantly relit. Brown & Williamson Tobacco Co was always the maker of PallMalls but few yrs ago sold out to RJ Reynolds and the cigs went downhill right then. Truth be known, in total honesty, I wouldnt smoke em now even if they were priced like generics.
Mitigator #2: Heres a real kicker. The 7-11 I bought em at is about 1 mile from Historic Jamestown. The barn I was workin at butts up to the parking lot
of the Jamestown Visitor Center. Not just Virginny, but this whole country in effect was founded on tobacco. I know my history and had tobacco never been grown here a few yrs after what is known as The Starving Times in Jamestown Colony history, who knows what woulda happened in the settlement of this country.
Mitigator #3: Gee, have they levied enuf tax on a pack of smokes at this point or what?
Then to really make me see red I did a little simple division involving 20 smokes in a pack and $6.52. I found that the advertizing would be sound if cigarettes were sold 3 for a $1.:eek:
I better go now. Forum rule breaking on the tip of my fingertips.