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MrPlow_357 t1_ja66faa wrote

Back when a 15 year old could afford a pack of smokes.

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Kraqrjack t1_ja6x1gz wrote

89 cents a pack at the Amoco near my house about 1980. Weirdly the attendant also sold weed at 20 an eighth and 40 years later the low end price at my local dispensary is still 20 bucks except the bag isn’t covered in grease and smelling like gasoline.

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nonanumatic t1_ja6c3h4 wrote

When my mom was 8 she would go buy smokes saying it was for my granddad, probably only cost a couple dollars, crazy how much shit has changed

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5-10guy12471 t1_ja6hdot wrote

My dad said that when he arrived in this country in 1985 at 18 a pack of Marlboro red costed him around $2.00 - $2.50 in new york

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nonanumatic t1_ja6k4re wrote

My mom would have been 8 in the early 1970s, so it was probably even less

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