Re: Complain about cost of new Gun, not not Cigarettes
[Re: Canvasback2]
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05/22/22 07:39 AM
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Not to mention , the damage they are doing to your health !!! I have severe COPD , from 40 years of smoking , probably 2 packs a day ... Now I cant hunt the mountains and do the things I enjoy ....
You could almost make a new truck payment, for what cigarettes cost today.. crazy money 💰 I quit almost 10 years ago , but a lot of damage was done by then ...now I'm just trying to stay off the oxygen machine ..
I don't mean to preach to you all , but I wish now , I would have listened back then ...
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Re: Complain about cost of new Gun, not not Cigarettes
[Re: Canvasback2]
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05/22/22 08:07 AM
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Leftlane
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Even cheap cigars are expensive now but the real expensive part was the heard surgery. I could have gone on safari for what that cost me.
“What’s good for me may not be good for the weak minded.” Captain Gus McCrae- Texas Rangers
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Re: Complain about cost of new Gun, not not Cigarettes
[Re: Canvasback2]
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05/22/22 08:18 AM
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Flicker Shad
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A Pack of Camel Cigarettes is $11.96. If you are a pack a day smoker, that works out to $ 83.72 EVERY WEEK!!
Multiple that by 52 weeks, and that means you spent $4353.4 in ONE YEAR ON CIGARETTES!!
But, complain about spending $4,353.44 on a brand new Shotgun ???
Does not make sense!! Put that money in a growth mutual fund for thirty years. That's a decent chunk for retirement that some people put in their lungs. Yowser.
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Re: Complain about cost of new Gun, not not Cigarettes
[Re: Canvasback2]
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05/22/22 09:08 AM
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A Pack of Camel Cigarettes is $11.96. If you are a pack a day smoker, that works out to $ 83.72 EVERY WEEK!! Is that what they cost now? They cost about $1.75 per pack when I quit back in the mid 90s. I remember telling the wife that I would quit if they ever reached two dollars a pack…
Eh...wot?
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Re: Complain about cost of new Gun, not not Cigarettes
[Re: Canvasback2]
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05/22/22 09:09 AM
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I started smoking in 6th grade. Quit when I was 33 cause cigarettes were a dollar a pack. Chewed Levi Garett. Just quit that about 3 years ago. Started chewing Copenhagen when I was about 15. Switched to Levi Garett in my 20's cause my wife complained about the taste. When I quit the Copenhagen my cigarette use went way up. Was up to 3 packs a day some days when I quit. Anyway I like tobacco. A lot. Never made me sick. Even when I smoked a cigar at 3. Yes 3. Dad was given one by a guy who was a new father. I kept asking him about it. Told me I could smoke it cause he figured I would get sick. I did not. I liked it. Uncle gave me a chew of days work plug when I was 8. Same thing. I didnt get sick I liked it. going without tobacco really stinks. If a DR tells me I only got a few days or months left I am straight away buying a pack of Marlboro and a can of Copenhagen.
Smoking has affected my lungs. I have a mild case of COPD now. Use an inhaler. I dont want to know how bad it would be if I hadn't quit. If you dont already use it dont start. If you do make up your mind its going to be miserable and just quit. Tapering off dont work. Have to just toss it out the window and be miserable for awhile. Otherwise the misery you go through is going to be lots worse.
Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
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Re: Complain about cost of new Gun, not not Cigarettes
[Re: Canvasback2]
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05/22/22 11:50 AM
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I quit smoking cigarettes 19 years ago. Glad I bought lots and lots of guns and ammo through the decades before all these idiotic laws became reality where I live. But spending 4 thou on a shot gun seems almost as dumb as smoking does to me now
NYSTA, NTA, FTA, life member Erie county trappers assn.,life member Catt.county trappers
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Re: Complain about cost of new Gun, not not Cigarettes
[Re: Canvasback2]
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05/22/22 12:26 PM
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Mother-in-law spent five days in hospital. She is 96. We live 4-hours away. Wife has a sister 2 miles from her mom. Sister could not sit with mom in hospital because the sister needs to go outside to smoke a cig every thirty minutes, while mom is near death on the 5th floor.
The power of tobacco addiction is very strong. Stronger that a mother’s love.
Last edited by charles; 05/22/22 12:28 PM.
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Re: Complain about cost of new Gun, not not Cigarettes
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05/22/22 12:34 PM
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Lots of folks make some funny choices, they won’t go to the Doctor because it’s expensive but then buy bling they don’t really need.
Was born in a Big City Will die in the Country OK with that!
Jerry Herbst
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Re: Complain about cost of new Gun, not not Cigarettes
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05/22/22 02:59 PM
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It’s not a disease. It’s a choice that turns into an addiction. No different than any other drug.
formerly posting as white dog
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Re: Complain about cost of new Gun, not not Cigarettes
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05/22/22 03:49 PM
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Gary Benson
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I glanced at cigs the other day and they were 6-7 dollars a pack. NY sin tax must be mighty high. I bought cigs as a kid for 25 cents a pack. That was in the early 60s.
Life ain't supposed to be easy.
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Re: Complain about cost of new Gun, not not Cigarettes
[Re: Canvasback2]
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05/22/22 03:55 PM
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Generic brand cigarettes only cost $2.70 down here.
~~Proud Ultra MAGA~~
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