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Originally Posted by Evans, Marv View Post
Yes, I was astonished about a week ago when I was in a store and a not too afluent (looking) person in front of me bought a pack of cigarettes. After the person left, I asked the clerk what a pack costs now days. He said $17, which blew me away. Of course I had to tell him the story from my childhood when a friend of my dad had a cigarette vending maching business. You put in a quarter and got a pack with three pennies inserted under the cellophane on the sider of the pack.

Just checked with an inflationi calculator. $.22 from that time would be $2.58 now days.
17 bucks for a pack of cigarettes??? Geez, where in the world do cigarettes cost 17 bucks??? Round here, they are $9.46. What a deal!!!
Also, today I paid $2.80 a gallon for regular gas and that was with 6 cent a gallon discount.

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