The current average price of a pack of cigarettes in North Carolina is around $5.50...
5.50!?!?
I live in NY. Anyone down there wanna make a few bucks? Just kidding.
There is quite a trade in out of state cigarettes in NY. Some of the players include traditional organized crime.
Bout the same in Maryland. Sometimes 6. I don’t like the way the state profits from addiction, but nowadays, I don’t feel much sympathy for the smokers, either.
The only reason so many people didn’t die from smoking related illnesses when I was a child was that they simply died from other things before the illnesses manifested themselves. Nowadays, with more and more people living to a ripe old age, the effect of smoking will manifest themselves more frequently, even in people who have been non-smokers for decades, like Mom.
If you’re a smoker, and you live long, you will eventually put your friends and family through the agony of seeing you get destroyed by a smoking related illness. If you cannot put the fags down on your own, get help.