I was on Instagram yesterday and this picture came up in my feed.  Look at the cost of the price of a pack of cigarettes!!  $10 for the USA depends upon where you live.  I was in a card store a couple weeks ago and a pack of Marlboro cost a whopping $17.00 here in NYC!!  I couldn't believe it, how can anyone afford that if they smoke a carton a week!!😬  Totally insane!!

We need to charge $28.00 for a pack here in the US!

That will definitely help to keep people from smoking!  Although, there are a lot less smokers now than there were 30 years ago.

1 minute ago, QuittingGirl said:

That will definitely help to keep people from smoking!  Although, there are a lot less smokers now than there were 30 years ago.

There might be a lot less smokers but lets focus on nicotine, where there is an incredible increase in use among the young generation. I believe there is even increase in general to nicotine addiction as you can see almost everyone puffing vapes or chewing nicotine pouches...It is incredible how one can hate it in one time and not be able to quit it on the other hand whie knowing all the bad things about it  

31 minutes ago, Dejvis93 said:

There might be a lot less smokers but lets focus on nicotine, where there is an incredible increase in use among the young generation. I believe there is even increase in general to nicotine addiction as you can see almost everyone puffing vapes or chewing nicotine pouches...It is incredible how one can hate it in one time and not be able to quit it on the other hand whie knowing all the bad things about it  

Nicotine in any form has a huge hold on us, otherwise none of us would be on this forum...LOL!!  I read that the nicotine addiction is just as bad or even worse than someone addicted to heroin! 😲   Although I am surprised that there is an increase in the younger generation addicted to nicotine.  You would think with all the information out there for so many years on how bad it is, the young people of today wouldn't do it.  Well, you certainly made the right decision!  What helped me in the first couple of months of my quit was taking cinnamon sticks and making believe that I was smoking a cigarette.  I would suck in air from the hole and then make believe I was blowing it out.  The cinnamon really tasted nice and it would help me.  I bought a package of several sticks and kept one in my handbag at all times, plus a couple around my house.  They really did help.  If you don't like cinnamon, you can use cut up straws.  Do whatever it takes to help you.  

1 minute ago, QuittingGirl said:

Nicotine in any form has a huge hold on us, otherwise none of us would be on this forum...LOL!!  I read that the nicotine addiction is just as bad or even worse than someone addicted to heroin! 😲   Although I am surprised that there is an increase in the younger generation addicted to nicotine.  You would think with all the information out there for so many years on how bad it is, the young people of today wouldn't do it.  Well, you certainly made the right decision!  What helped me in the first couple of months of my quit was taking cinnamon sticks and making believe that I was smoking a cigarette.  I would suck in air from the hole and then make believe I was blowing it out.  The cinnamon really tasted nice and it would help me.  I bought a package of several sticks and kept one in my handbag at all times, plus a couple around my house.  They really did help.  If you don't like cinnamon, you can use cut up straws.  Do whatever it takes to help you.  

The problem with young generation is mostly flavoured vapes, it is so spread, incredible. Companies already understand that people know about how smoking is bad for health but the main factor is nicotine so they also transformed into chewing pouches and electronic cigarettes. Anyway, i bought today loads of chewing gums sugarfree and will probably make my jews double in size tomorrow hahah. 1 hour clean now  

They say those vapes are even worse than cigarettes, although I don't know why.  Companies are out to make money and they don't care if nicotine is bad for us, all they want to do is "sell, sell, sell", the bottom line are their sales and how to constantly increase them.  Sugar free gum is great!!  Also, drink lots of water that will help flush out the toxins from your body.  1 hour clean is great, take it by the minute, if you have to.  Hey, we have all been in your exact position at one time, otherwise this forum wouldn't exist...LOL!!  Stick around @Dejvis93, you will make lots of friends on here.  So you are from Prague?  That is very cool.  I have never been, but I would love to one day.  My mom and one of my son's have been there and they loved it.  So much history and beauty.

1 minute ago, QuittingGirl said:

They say those vapes are even worse than cigarettes, although I don't know why.  Companies are out to make money and they don't care if nicotine is bad for us, all they want to do is "sell, sell, sell", the bottom line are their sales and how to constantly increase them.  Sugar free gum is great!!  Also, drink lots of water that will help flush out the toxins from your body.  1 hour clean is great, take it by the minute, if you have to.  Hey, we have all been in your exact position at one time, otherwise this forum wouldn't exist...LOL!!  Stick around @Dejvis93, you will make lots of friends on here.  So you are from Prague?  That is very cool.  I have never been, but I would love to one day.  My mom and one of my son's have been there and they loved it.  So much history and beauty.

Vapes are absolutely worse, because you end up to puff all day long. There is no space limitations or lighting cigarette effect, you can puff all hour long, so it is so much addictive. Well, anything with nicotine is just pure evil. Best business, you get new customers quickly and most of them you have for life

 

Yeah Prague is great city, very nice to visit.

Here's another chart, just to show you the spread on a pack of 20 Marlboro cigs around the world:

Incredible, the difference in cost for the same pack of smokes 🫣

 

Here's the link to costs around the world:

https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/country_price_rankings?itemId=17

Gday

Yep near on 9 years Nico free. It was nearly $1 a cig back then and now over $1.50 a cig. Mind numbing when  you realise as an addict you have to find that money ever day. You can’t take a day off from addiction you’ve got to feed it. 
In Australia now there’s a regular black market of under the counter cigarettes and vaps. Tax free

The few folk I know that still smoke buy these. They come from china from japan from the Middle East. Apparently you never know what you’ll get next. And the quality how much nicotine etc is pot luck. Just like illegal drugs one day they are cut down and next extra strong. 
Vaps are legal to sell but must not contain nicotine. Of course that doesn’t happen and a new generation of nicotine addicts are here. 
Of course crime is attracted to this easy money. Owning a smoke shop also gives you a perfect way to wash your illegal earnings through a legit business . 
So the high prices aren’t perfect but you’ve got to admit that that our smoking rate is very low. It’s only part of the the slow change that has made smoking an antisocial thing and not looked down upon. 
You want to see the disbelief from people when you admitt to being an ex smoker. They just can’t believe it. 
Still I’m not a there to impress the never smokers and I do love the smoker. I’ll never give them a hard time, or lecture them. I just let them know I’m an ex smoker and leave it at that. When they want to talk they will. They get enough from the non smokers without me adding to there misery’s 

Can't imagine paying $30 a pack, that is beyond insane!  Thankfully we all quit so we don't have to worry about it anymore!

The prices are just insane and we are saving lots of money by not smoking.  I remember way back in the day when a pack cost 50 cents, and I said that when it goes up to a dollar, I will quit.  Well that didn't happen....LOL!! I waited many more years before I took the plunge!

It’s cost about 12.50 a pkt here in the UK

I honestly don’t know how folks can afford to smoke these days 🐸