In my senior year of high school I worked evenings at Burger King, I remember that with tax, a Whopper, fry and large coke was .$96.
What $10.00 gets you now-a-days
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In the early 70s, while I was in the Navy, once we got out into international waters, the cost of a carton of cigs in the ship's store was $2.00. We would load up.
Eddie Southgate
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That .27 cent pack of Camels was .10 cents in Kentucky due to no tax on Tobacco. There is a town on the Tennessee - Kentucky border named Southgate Kentucky after one of my ancestors . Right on that border was a rather large and popular night club . I was known for drawing equally from KY and TN due to the fact that Ky was dry at that time and TN taxed the hound out of Tobacco. You could walk in the door on the KY side to the TN side and buy all the liquor and beer you wanted , taxed and not , then carry it out on the KY side and be legal as the law only barred selling alcohol in KY not drinking it or owning it. Ky cigarettes had 0 tax applied so the .27 cent pack minus tax was .10-.11 cents . My dad would carry a 300 Chrysler load of liquor up there for Nick Wise who owned Wise Liquor Stores in Nashville and drop it off and bring back a 300 Chrysler full of smokes . That was in the late 50's and early 60's when those 300's were huge and very fast . I was getting cigars in Pulaski Tennessee the other day and asked the price on the unfiltered Camels and Lucky's and they get $13.95 a pack your choice.
This probably needs to be renamed as it seems to have become the new " Lung Cancer / COPD Thread " !
This probably needs to be renamed as it seems to have become the new " Lung Cancer / COPD Thread " !
In the late '80s or early '90s I remember the 2 Whoppers for $1.99 specials. I'm trying to remember how much Taco Bell sold the 10-packs of crispy tacos for, but it has just been too long.
When I was middle school age, there was a very small chain of burger joints (perhaps four or five). They were copies of McDs. Their burgers were $.06.
I remember my father swearing to quit when they went to $.25/pack. (he should have, they killed him a few years later)Even my go-to pre gun show breakfast at Whataburger, the #21 combo, jumped to $11.72 this weekend...It sure cuts into a feller's gun budget...Those aforementioned cigarettes were 35 cents a pack of Lucky Strikes in the coin operated machines when I gave them up 48 years ago......Ben
EDIT: The cheapest I ever paid for Luckies was 60 cents a carton at the Naval Air Station on Bermuda where I TDY'ed in the mid 60's...
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When we ran out of US cigarettes (I liked PallMalls) we'd smoke Melia or Bastos those horrible French smokes. Smoked 3 Luckys from 1944 C Rats. It was like lighting Detcord.. The Viets wanted Salems. Breakfast was a canteen cup of the worst coffee ever made and about 5 or 6 Pall Malls. Reading the back page of Stars&Stripes to see got killed the previous week.
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In my days @ Wake Forest, we had cigarette machines at each dorm… 25 cents! Now even the machines are illegal in many places! A few years ago I saw loose cigarettes sold in a Bahamas bar as “onesies” for a dollar each! 
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When stationed in Korea Camel non filtered was $1.95 a carton.
So what does a pack or Winstons or Marlboros cost today? I quit decades ago.
Eddie Southgate
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Didn't check on them but a quick internet search shows between $6 and $8 six years ago and $10 from two sellers current price. It can vary quite a bit depending on location due to taxes . Federal , State and local taxes apply . At one time when I still smoked them a $2.55 pack of Camels in Nashville would have been less than .75 a pack without all of the taxes. That was published data at the time and from a reliable source unlike most such data you get now. They might be $20 a pack in California as anti everything as they are .
Eddie Southgate
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I remember them going to .34 cents in the machines when I was in Jr High . You had to put .40 in the machine and got a pack with a nickel and a book of matches taped on them . They were bad about hanging up and not coming out because of that . I had a pack hang on me one day and I jarred the machine so hard ( picked up one end and dropped it a foot or so ) that nine other hung up packs plus mine fell out. They upped the price to .40 and that was the only increase I ever supported .Even my go-to pre gun show breakfast at Whataburger, the #21 combo, jumped to $11.72 this weekend...It sure cuts into a feller's gun budget...Those aforementioned cigarettes were 35 cents a pack of Lucky Strikes in the coin operated machines when I gave them up 48 years ago...
EDIT: The cheapest I ever paid for Luckies was 60 cents a carton at the Naval Air Station on Bermuda where I TDY'ed in the mid 60's...
If you ever get to Decatur Alabama I would highly recommend skipping the Whataburger as well as all of the McDonalds. They are horrible . Also skip all fast food in Moulton Alabama , it's worse than Decatur.
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When I was a Boy Sprout we bought Korean and WWII era canned C rations for .10 each . That would have been late 60's. I have eat a ton of canned Pemican . Our Church had a fallout shelter that was stacked six cases deep with C rations. They finally gave them away in the 80's and I got 3 cases , believe it or not they were no better or no worse than the MRE's available at that time. I got two cases WWII dated and one Korean dated.
The Viet Cong were probably subsiding that pricing. Those were probably more dangerous to your health than an AK-47!
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No price was at PX.Nothing like working 12-16 hours a day hearing artillery fire and having guard duty at night where one sees the blue flame from 122 rockets that makes one smoke a lot. Then driving all around to contact teams with just the sorry M-16 and a pocket full of V-40s. Rather had a 1911 than M-16.
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