Eighty national public health groups, including the American Heart Association, the American Medical Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American College of Preventative Medicine, placed a full-page ad in Sunday’s edition of the Washington Post in support of a federal ban on menthol in cigarettes and all flavored cigars.
“The answer is clear,” the full-page ad says. “Saving lives starts by ending the sale of menthol cigarettes and all flavored cigars.
“Smoking kills nearly half a million people in the United States each year, and these addictive, deadly products are a big part of the problem. The FDA and White House have our full support to release lifesaving rules prohibiting menthol cigarettes and all flavored cigars.”
wow where is that?
New York. For better or worse, they’re essentially trying to tax people out of smoking.
Unless you’re going to a reservation any cigarettes you buy are going to be at least $15 a pack. The bigger the city the bigger the price.
$6 a pack was like 30 years ago
1993 I could get a pack of GPCs for $0.99. The name brands were about $2.00 a pack when bought as a carton. I remember watching the prices climb, hearing NYC was like $8.00, and I was like fuuuuuck.
It’s probably $6-7 in KY, NC, and SC still. I was in Lexington KY last year this time, and IIRC the packs were around that. I roll with a topomatic so I get pipe tobacco which runs $22 a pound in CA where I live, and was $13 a pound in KY. Just not for Camels, Newports, or Marlboro those are all like $10 in KY
Oh NC is like a magical land of good cigarette prices. If you’re a snowbird that doesn’t fly you’re stopping in NC and loading up.
There are very few places in the US where a pack of cigarettes is $15+