Do you remember when cigarettes were 75 cents a pack?

  I'm a non-smoker, but my mother has been a smoker since before I was born. I remember when she would send me or my brother or sister to the corner store to get her a pack (back in those ancient days, it was allowed), I can't remember how much they charged, it was probably .75 or maybe $1 per pack. 
  Just this past week while waiting in a long line at a store, I noticed the per-pack and per-carton prices; I believe it was something like $7.75 and $77.50 respectively. I can't imagine paying Big Tobacco so much money to slowly kill me.

I remember thinking that I would have to quit when they went to 35 cents since I couldn't afford it anymore. (I is old). I actually quit when they hit a dollar. 

Our sea store cigs on the ships were 25 cents. A carton of Marlboros in Italy could get you...You get the picture.

I remember when they cost 25 cents a pack. A carton was $2.25. Movie theaters (We had theaters then, too!) had cigarette vending machines. Hotels, restaurants, even grocery stores, had ash trays every few feet. BIG ash trays! Not the spindly kind that you see now, these were big enough to be considered furniture. Like this:

I can remember when they killed people.

no  cause ive never smoked

I remember the outrage when a pack of smokes went UP TO 50 cents.

Never took it up myself, and I chuckle inside when I see saps paying 7-8 bucks a pack for coffin nails. 

I remember when military guys would drive over to Columbus, GA  and buy cigarettes for nothing....like $2-$3 per carton.  

I remember when they were twenty cents purchased out of a machine. Persons of any age could buy. 

"Actually no."  I had quit long before that happened.

Remember, when cigarettes cost 25 cents that was a quarter ounce of silver. A quarter ounce of silver now is $4.50.

The difference is that in those days you only had to earn 27 cents to have 25 cents to spend. Now you have to earn $7.50 to have $4.50 to spend.