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Maybe it's a younger demographic regarding non-carton buyers or something? Like, smokers don't admit that they're smokers until they're 30 or something. Most of my friends are under 30, and still make up all sorts of cockamamie excuses as to why they smoke so much but won't buy cartons.

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Maclowery wrote:Maybe it's a younger demographic regarding non-carton buyers or something? Like, smokers don't admit that they're smokers until they're 30 or something. Most of my friends are under 30, and still make up all sorts of cockamamie excuses as to why they smoke so much but won't buy cartons.
I quit before I was 30 so I'm not sure.

But I also never was ashamed of smoking. I blew smoke in people's face if they complained, I smoked incessantly, I was a very obvious smoker. Especially if I was drinking.

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I never bought cartons because it's hard to keep track, and sometimes the last couple of packs would be a little stale (or a whole carton). You end up not realizing you have half a pack in your jacket, and open up another one. Or your buddy comes over and grabs a pack. If either of those things then you aren't really saving any money anyway. IIRC the savings was a matter of a few dollars.

Plus, it made me feel like I still had some control, which was BS, but I'm sure I'm not the only one that thinks buying cartons is basically waving a white flag.

Has the price of a carton gone up as much as the price of packs? IOW, in places that you have to spend $5-8 a pack, are cartons like 40 or 60 dollars or something? I don't even know.

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It made no sense to me not to buy cartons. You go into a gas station and buy one pack at a time they are going to charge you well over $4 a pack. Cartons were less than $30. I smoked pretty much exactly one pack a day, whether or not I had a carton. So the alternative was spending gas money and time going to a gas station every day, overpaying for the pack of cigs and probably grabbing some overpriced drink or something else while I was in there. If it increased the amount I smoked at all it was more than offset by the amount I "saved" by buying cartons.

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docellis wrote:
Maclowery wrote:Maybe it's a younger demographic regarding non-carton buyers or something? Like, smokers don't admit that they're smokers until they're 30 or something. Most of my friends are under 30, and still make up all sorts of cockamamie excuses as to why they smoke so much but won't buy cartons.
I quit before I was 30 so I'm not sure.

But I also never was ashamed of smoking. I blew smoke in people's face if they complained, I smoked incessantly, I was a very obvious smoker. Especially if I was drinking.
With as many things as you don't like, I'm surprised you'd blow smoke in someone's face if they did not care for it.

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Fat_Bulldog wrote:
docellis wrote:
Maclowery wrote:Maybe it's a younger demographic regarding non-carton buyers or something? Like, smokers don't admit that they're smokers until they're 30 or something. Most of my friends are under 30, and still make up all sorts of cockamamie excuses as to why they smoke so much but won't buy cartons.
I quit before I was 30 so I'm not sure.

But I also never was ashamed of smoking. I blew smoke in people's face if they complained, I smoked incessantly, I was a very obvious smoker. Especially if I was drinking.
With as many things as you don't like, I'm surprised you'd blow smoke in someone's face if they did not care for it.
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omaha_red wrote:
Fat_Bulldog wrote:
docellis wrote:
Maclowery wrote:Maybe it's a younger demographic regarding non-carton buyers or something? Like, smokers don't admit that they're smokers until they're 30 or something. Most of my friends are under 30, and still make up all sorts of cockamamie excuses as to why they smoke so much but won't buy cartons.
I quit before I was 30 so I'm not sure.

But I also never was ashamed of smoking. I blew smoke in people's face if they complained, I smoked incessantly, I was a very obvious smoker. Especially if I was drinking.
With as many things as you don't like, I'm surprised you'd blow smoke in someone's face if they did not care for it.
I mean, she hates soda, kittens, fun, candy, love, etc. But will blow smoke intentionally in someone's face.

Is this the same person who complained about someone running water while brushing their teeth?

WOW.

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Fat_Bulldog wrote:With as many things as you don't like, I'm surprised you'd blow smoke in someone's face if they did not care for it.

I mean, she hates soda, kittens, fun, candy, love, etc. But will blow smoke intentionally in someone's face.

Is this the same person who complained about someone running water while brushing their teeth?

WOW.

This was years ago and I'll readily admit that I used to be an incredible jerk. Rude, loud, opinionated and a chainsmoker.

But I don't hate kittens, fun or love. Just soda and candy.

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docellis wrote:
Fat_Bulldog wrote:With as many things as you don't like, I'm surprised you'd blow smoke in someone's face if they did not care for it.

I mean, she hates soda, kittens, fun, candy, love, etc. But will blow smoke intentionally in someone's face.

Is this the same person who complained about someone running water while brushing their teeth?

WOW.

This was years ago and I'll readily admit that I used to be an incredible jerk. Rude, loud, opinionated and a chainsmoker.

But I don't hate kittens, fun or love. Just soda and candy.
Used to be?????

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docellis wrote:
Fat_Bulldog wrote:With as many things as you don't like, I'm surprised you'd blow smoke in someone's face if they did not care for it.

I mean, she hates soda, kittens, fun, candy, love, etc. But will blow smoke intentionally in someone's face.

Is this the same person who complained about someone running water while brushing their teeth?

WOW.

This was years ago and I'll readily admit that I used to be an incredible jerk. Rude, loud, opinionated and a chainsmoker.

But I don't hate kittens, fun or love. Just soda and candy.
Big relief.

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