A manly alternative to ducks

matkal

TJ Addict
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I quit smoking years ago but I’m going to ask my friends that smoke for their empty packs. I want to “anti duck” my TJ 🤣

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I remember when my dad smoked that he bitched when the price rose to 40 cents a pack. This would've been about '67 or '68, I'm thinking. He gave up the habit long before they hit a buck a pack.

I used to chew snuff about that same time frame. I think it was $0.19 per can when I started. Chewing tobacco was exempt from most to the taxes placed on cigarettes.
 
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I used to chew snuff about that same time frame. I think it was $0.19 per can when I started. Chewing tobacco was exempt from most to the taxes placed on cigarettes.

I remember buying model car kits in my youth for around $3 per kit (early '70s). Last weekend I saw some with prices ranging from $35-$50. Back in the day, I would save my allowance money (from mowing the yard, and such...no freebies!) and buy the kits. It helped keep me out of trouble. I can't imagine a 10-year-old trying to save $50 for a damn model these days...:(
 
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Democracy can be a bitch sometimes. They will call a vote to raise the price of cigarettes. Since there are more non-smokers (and support for non-smokers), the vote passes every time.

The tyranny of the majority is certainly a thing. I'm not sure I approve of "sin taxes" myself (pretty sure I don't, actually). BUT, since tax dollars do pay for management of the majority of health consequences of smoking (cancer, COPD, heart disease, peripheral vascular disease, post-op infections...) through either medicare or medicaid, there is a persuasive argument to be made for cigarette taxes.
 
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