Bug Day 6: American Smoke-Out

Michael Gargiullo mgargiullo at warpdrive.net
Wed Nov 19 19:26:13 UTC 2003


On Wed, 2003-11-19 at 12:22, Brian Fahrlander wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-11-19 at 07:56, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote:
> > At 00:39 11/19/2003, you wrote:
> > >     Smoke if you've got'em, but try to put'em out on the 19th.  You'll
> > >live longer, and you'll live easier, not paying a minimum of $1200 a
> > >year!
> > 
> > I don't smoke, but I used to. It's great that you want to help people quit, 
> > but I have a question. $1200/year is $4/day... around here that's four 
> > packs a day! Even if you live somewhere where a pack is $4, which would be 
> > incredible, how is something like 1 pack (or 4 around here) a "minimum"?
> 
>     Nope, most smokes are about $320-$3.50 here.  Some places (NYC, I
> believe) they're something like $7.  Yeah...the cost of a movie here. 
> The sad thing is, that tax money goes 'to help the children' so they're
> setting it up where people NEED to smoke, to keep people on at the local
> school.  :>
> 
>     $1 a pack...if I fall off the wagon, I might have to send you some
> money for some smokes!  :>

$1 a pack! - Road trip!

Seriously trying to quit....again... $5.50 a pack here in NJ and yeah
NYC is $7/pack in a lot of places

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Michael Gargiullo <mgargiullo at warpdrive.net>
Warp Drive Networks





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