[Williams]

I don’t think minors could buy cigarettes in 1975.

[PGR88]

I don’t think minors could buy cigarettes in 1975.

My mom just wrote a note. The corner grocer knew her hand-writing.

[Gandalf_The_Gray]

I don’t think minors could buy cigarettes in 1975.

Anybody can walk up to a vending machine...You got the money honey?

If you know where to "shop", you can buy nearly anything. It's getting harder to do as time goes by (harder meaning more $$$ required but the basic premise is still true)

Regards,
GtG

[packrat35]

Yes they could. I was sent to the store many times to get cigarettes for my parents. I was 14 in 1975.

[Sequoyah101]

I used to go to the store and buy chewing tobacco for my dad back in the 60s. By the 70s I was buying my own.

[kelly4c]

Well I can tell you that when I was 13 I was buying my own cigs in just about any gas station in town:)

[kelly4c]

I see others refuted that well before me. Sorry for the redundancy! But heck we could buy liquor when we were teens as well. Moslty from the mexican ran liquor stores or arab gas stations.

[cookcounty]

"I don’t think minors could buy cigarettes in 1975"

Actually, you could:

a) put the coins in the cigarette vending machine, choose a brand, and pull the lever.

or, b) you could tell the clerk "they're for my Dad,"which didn't work all the time, but lot's of time, it did.

[lonestar]

When did cig machines go out?

[meyer]

I don’t think minors could buy cigarettes in 1975.

They could if they had a note from their parent (or sister).

[loungitude]

I don’t think minors could buy cigarettes in 1975.

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Yup, there was a sticker saying so on the coin-operated vending machines. And you could push a button and get a pack of matches for free!