From the 50's

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(1) "I'll tell you one thing. If things keep going the way they are, it's going to be impossible to buy a week's groceries for $20."

(2) "Have you seen the new cars coming out next year? It won't be long when $5000 will only buy a used one."

(3) "If cigarettes keep going up in price, I'm going to quit. A quarter a pack is ridiculous."

(4) "Did you hear the post office is thinking about charging dime just to mail a letter?"

(5) "The Government is wanting to get its hands on everything. Pretty soon it's going to be impossible to run a family business or farm."

(6) "If they raise the minimum wage to $1, nobody will be able to hire outside help at the store."

(7) "When I first started driving, who would have thought gas would someday cost 50 cents a gallon. Guess we'd be better off leaving the car in the garage."

(8) "Kids today are impossible. Those duck tail hair cuts make it impossible to stay groomed. Next thing you know, boys will be wearing their hair as long as the girls."

(9) " I'm afraid to send my kids to the movies any more. Ever since they let Clark Gable get by with saying '*' in 'Gone with the Wind,' it seems every movie has a 'hell' or' *' in it."

(10) "Also, it won't be long until couples are sleeping in the same bed in the movies. What is this world coming to?"

(11) "I read the other day where some scientist thinks it's possible to put a man on the moon by the end of the of the century. They even have some fellows they call astronauts preparing for it down in Texas."

(12) "Did you see where some baseball player just signed a contract for $75,000 a year just to play ball? It wouldn't surprise me if someday they'll be making more than the president."

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[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun - 3 years ago (1 child)

Cigarettes stayed the same price from 1950 to 1998 when you adjust for inflation. It wasn't until the WHO anti-smoking campaign took hold that they jumped due to the ridiculous taxation.

You can still smoke for a $1 a pack or less if you roll your own. I buy whole leaf tobacco these days, it isn't taxed at all since it's an agricultural product, but most people use "pipe tobacco" which isn't really pipe tobacco but it's taxed (tax class L iirc) far less than if they sold it as cigarette tobacco.

And for places that have banned menthol, it's really easy to make RYO tobacco menthol by just buying the menthol crystals, dissolving it in alcohol, and treating the tobacco yourself.

In theory you can do a similar thing to flavor tobacco with the same stuff used for vaping but I've not had great results personally. Tbf I didn't really like most flavored ciggs anyways, but Camel made a mandarin one that was really good. It just occured to me I probably should have been doing the filters instead of the tobacco itself. I'm going to give that a shot.

There's other neat stuff you can do too, like toast it (ala Luckys) or ferment it into perique. And I'd think if you wanted freebased nicotine like commercial ciggs you could probably do that to by treating it with ammonia.

[–]bjam27 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun - 3 years ago (0 children)