Cigarette Machine
Above is a photo I took recently in Houston of a cigarette machine.
You used to see these machines all the time. Now you don’t see them so often.
The cigarettes in this machine cost $10.
Tobacco is indeed the Devil’s weed.
Though the truth is my dad smoked incessantly from the Truman years up until his death–from lung cancer—in 2011.
I’d be hard-pressed to say anything other than that cigarettes probably made by father’s life more enjoyable.
Still—Please do quit now if you smoke.
Just the price alone of a pack cigarettes is enough to make you quit.
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Texas Liberal is a blog of politics and political history.
My name is Neil Aquino. Here is my profile.
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The last time I bought cigarettes out of a machine before I quit smoking in 1980 they cost 50 cents a pack.
Looks like any bar in Norwood you would walk into
[…] at Texas Liberal posted a picture of a cigarette machine that he saw last week in Houston. If you can imagine, the cigarettes cost $10 a pack in this […]
Bill–Are they $10 a pack there as well?
Woodgate—That is likely also how much a good measure of how much the cost of smoking-related diseases has gone up since then as well.