Cigarettes reach nine dollars a pack in New York

Always hated them. Always chose 'light' and usually L&M.
You made me miss it again :(

If I ever receive diagnosis 'terminal' I'm going to have a beer abd cig party :D

terminal does not necessarily mean fatal.

It did for the late Nunczka, sadly, who was the OP in this thread.

I used to enjoy smoking and occasionally have the odd one even now. I gave up when I figured two things.

- That none of the people I knew who were enjoying an active and healthy retirement smoked.
- That nobody I knew who had a doctorate smoked but everybody I knew who was on skid row or close to it did smoke.

A nice cigar now and again is one thing. Deliberately filling your lungs with toxic microparticles ever half hour and spending £100 a week doing it is another.

Amasing! Much cheaper in Poland: about 3.5$.


Yes, I also had a weakness for smoking still about 15 years ago - I did it on summer holidays, when I was completely devoid of worries, and the family were already asleep, I sat in front of the cabin and lit a cigarillo at night.

Today it is out of the question coz cig smoke chokes me.

I miss it like crazy however the damage it does outweighs the pleasure.

Where I work, there are still ashtrays in offices, cigarettes are 35p (2zl) a packet and it is sometimes very tempting.

Yes, but we usually disregard damage and focus on pleasure. Typical of human beings. :):):)

True. It's finding a balance really.

There are other things to smoke than tobacco (and becoming legal in more and more places) plus a lot of people vape nowadays which is probably not as risky.