Why is it, that wherever I go in the country, fags are different prices, I mean...
I smoke Marlboro Gold and here at home in my local Tesco Express they are only £4.95...
WHSmith, London Waterloo: £5.59
WHSmith, Glasgow Central: £5.38
Stena HSS, Belfast/Stranraer: £4.91
WHSmith, Gatwick Airport: £5.60
ASDA, Castle Point: £4.82
ASDA, St Pauls: £4.91
Why can't we have price marked packs like the old days, at something like £4.80?
I mean, Belgium are only €2.90 a pack, France €3,30 and Ireland €5.98!
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Ok, WHSmith Bournemouth Castle Point (Retail), £5.42!
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Hmmm....
I love Marlboro Gold... but i can see your point. Every shop in the village has a different price.
Id only pay over a fiver for ciggies in WHSmith where they sell two of five varieties of Davidoff... the nicest ciggerettes in the world!
I love Marlboro Gold... but i can see your point. Every shop in the village has a different price.
Id only pay over a fiver for ciggies in WHSmith where they sell two of five varieties of Davidoff... the nicest ciggerettes in the world!
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I'm a smoker but I don't think *any* cigarette can truly be considered "nice".Cheese Head wrote:Hmmm....
I love Marlboro Gold... but i can see your point. Every shop in the village has a different price.
Id only pay over a fiver for ciggies in WHSmith where they sell two of five varieties of Davidoff... the nicest ciggerettes in the world!
I smoke B&H (Gold), and have done for years. They are now £5.03 from my local shop.
The are better than other fags (some of which taste like sweepings off the factory floor), but I couldn't describe them as "nice".
After seeing what fags have done to my grandparents & my aunt (killed 2 of them, put another in a home after numerous strokes and given my aunt over a decade of poor chest health which is getting worse all the time- on the phone last week she sounded like she's just run a marathon), I wouldn't consider touching a pack of fags for those reasons alone, not to mention I find the stench offensive (and the time I tried it where I didn't lose the repulsive taste for days- that experience leads me to still wonder why anyone consideres the taste of fags "nice", I found it anything but).
And on the cost issue discussed, my aunt must spend over 4 grand a year on fags. Why spend such an excessive amount of money which does nothing but destroy your health when you could buy something really nice liek a huge plasma TV, a luxury holiday or a decent living room suite for that sort of money? Over the last few years I've bought loads of luxuries (such as a laptop, TV, DVD Player, camcorder etc...) that I wouldn't have been able to afford if I was even a 10 a day smoker, let alone 20 or 40 a day. On both health & monetary grounds, being a smoker isn't worth it.
I know my comments aren't totally on topic for the thread, but I still feel they're worth saying. From the experiences I've had with smokers, I'd say give up before it gets you, and even then it might be too late. It still got my grandad, and he'd given up 20 years before the strokes caught up with him and put him in a home (the doctors are almost certain they were smoking related). The same happenned to my cousin's uncle who developed emphysema that killed him, despite quitting years earlier. I'm unaware of any smokers in my friends & family circle who haven't been killed, or at least made ill by their habit. No lucky 90 year old smoking grannys here. Just a grandmother that had a fatal heart attack at 59, and a great uncle that died at 40.
And on the cost issue discussed, my aunt must spend over 4 grand a year on fags. Why spend such an excessive amount of money which does nothing but destroy your health when you could buy something really nice liek a huge plasma TV, a luxury holiday or a decent living room suite for that sort of money? Over the last few years I've bought loads of luxuries (such as a laptop, TV, DVD Player, camcorder etc...) that I wouldn't have been able to afford if I was even a 10 a day smoker, let alone 20 or 40 a day. On both health & monetary grounds, being a smoker isn't worth it.
I know my comments aren't totally on topic for the thread, but I still feel they're worth saying. From the experiences I've had with smokers, I'd say give up before it gets you, and even then it might be too late. It still got my grandad, and he'd given up 20 years before the strokes caught up with him and put him in a home (the doctors are almost certain they were smoking related). The same happenned to my cousin's uncle who developed emphysema that killed him, despite quitting years earlier. I'm unaware of any smokers in my friends & family circle who haven't been killed, or at least made ill by their habit. No lucky 90 year old smoking grannys here. Just a grandmother that had a fatal heart attack at 59, and a great uncle that died at 40.
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Of course smoking is foul, expensive and deliterious to one's health.
However, I like many others am addicted to it.
By all means, attempt to persuade kids who try it at school not to get drawn in - but you are wasting your breath telling this to an adult who has smoked for over a decade.
I know what I should do; but being told by a non-smoker isn't going to persuade me.
I don't mean to offend, but I think my point needs to be made just as you do.
However, I like many others am addicted to it.
By all means, attempt to persuade kids who try it at school not to get drawn in - but you are wasting your breath telling this to an adult who has smoked for over a decade.
I know what I should do; but being told by a non-smoker isn't going to persuade me.
I don't mean to offend, but I think my point needs to be made just as you do.
I come from a long line of smokers unfortunately, although both my parents quit about 15 years ago, both me, my sister her boyfriend and practically all of my mates smoke.
I would love to just be able to give up and never want a cig again, but when you see all your mates smoking, its very very difficult!
I would love to just be able to give up and never want a cig again, but when you see all your mates smoking, its very very difficult!