aw man … those were the days … even into the 80’s … $.99 for a pack of camel lights. no wonder i got hooked on them!
$0.99 for a packet of fags??? That’s insane. What is the price now @snuffbrant? Here in England even the cheapest fags are around £6. When I bought some pipe baccy the other day, I noticed that the RYO baccy I used to smoke is £14.09 for 50g. I mean FFS! Stefan
oh … well … in ohio it is “relatively inexpensive” as compared to Chicago, let’s say … and can be had for between $4.50 and $5.50 … Camel is always pushing savings, especially if you buy “3 packs”. ha! 
Snuff, in contrast … is like a fantasy world for me … never have i seen such great quality product that can hook me up like a cigarette, so inexpensive, even with shipping. and i love the use of “FFS” … gotta use that more!
It’s funny that snuff is better then cigarettes and it cost less. Imgaine if good cigars worked the same way.
Cheapest cigs, or fag for that matter, I ever got was a pack of Pyramid non-filters about 25 years ago for $o.79 . I’m sure some older folks can beat that, though. Some of the old Lucky Strike green could be picked up mighty cheap and supposedly, you received change in the cellophane of the pack if it came from a vending machine…not sure if that is actually true. I do know that American Tobacco Company used to sell packs of smokes with baseball cards in them at the turn of the 1900’s, back when cigs where associated with healthy, popular activities. Just a crazy idea, but possibly Roderick could include some type of glossy cards inbetween the double-bag of a bulk order. Kind of old fashioned looking, maybe of different times in snuff history, his homeland. Jaap Bes would also be another who’d be capable of doing it…of the old historic mills and countryside (and women,haha!)Kidding, there. But, I’m sure they are both busy enough and this would only add another cost. Sure would be nice to hand down some Snuff-Cards to my young ones when I go, though.LOL!
@ Bart: All customers get a picture postcard of the mills with their first order, but you gave an idea, I’don’t promise anything, but I’ll kook in to the matter. Jaap Bes.
2/- for 20 Players No. 6 way back then… 
I could buy 10 cigs for around 80 pence in the early 1990’s, and they’re around 2.60 - 3.20 nowadays. The price for a 25 gram tin of snuff is about what @Walrus1985 said, although I have seen tins going for 4 quid that’s still cheaper than 20 cigs. 10 grams tends to be about 1.70 or so. @ermtony is referring to the real old school complicated money!
@sloth I’m in a poor ex-mining community if they charged any more for that they wouldn’t sell it. It’s good in a way being in a deprived community, cos a can of beer is only around 80p, and a pint in the pub in the pub is only around £2.40. God help those in cities or down south. Stefan
@Walrus1985 Well I’m from Suffolk, so I’m pretty much ‘down south’!
I started smoking heavy in the early 90’s here in Missouri and I could give my friend $2 to get me a pack of lucky strikes. It’s crazy how much the prices change in such a short period. My dad was in the army in the 60’s and he tells me in the food rations they would give you gum, a pack of matches, and two lucky strikes. Talk about encouraging smoking. Would be kinda cool to have a ration like that to collect though.
.35 a pack when I was a kid. Ok… I’m old!
I started smoking when they were $4-5 a pack. Quit when they were $4-6. 
i’m a young’un.
@Pike Mopers *big grin*
I started smoking when cheapo cigs were $1.90 and better brands were $2.10. When I quit they were $6-7/pk, but by that time I was RYOing pipe tobacco so it was more like $.95/pk! Hehe.
When i started smoking i got a pack of Marlboro reds for $1.30 at the local gas station,now they are almost $7 at some gas stations here in FL. I have a friend that lives in Germany and he has told me that Dip(skoal,copenhagen)is horribly expensive there,i send rolls over every few months to save him from paying the high costs,it’s still $3.60-$5.00 a can though here but still cheaper than Germany. By the way i’m only 32 so that cheap price i paid for ciggs wasn’t all that long ago,mid 90’s.
It’s something insane now, you can still get cheap smokes 3.50 for a pack of pall malls which must be a smuggling thing or something. california has a low tax so I think the prices have been raised by the tobacco cos. Dip is also going up it’s almost the same as smokes with the exception of the noble welfare bear and bull. Snus is the same at least on snuscentral which I’m sure they’re working hard to do shipping is what’s killer though. Nasal snuff is the same maybe 10-20 cents difference but still cheap.
Switzerland: 20 cigs 5-6 dollars, 50g tobacco 6-7 dollars, 25g O&G 16 dollars! It’s just nuts, which is why I’m hoarding, ie whilst I can still buy cheap on the net and often avoid import duty. Another Yorkshireman here. Started buying ‘separates’ (single ciggies) for 10p each when I was 14.
@jwalker RE: I think the prices have been raised by the tobacco cos. I can confirm they have. In the early 80s pricing was standardized among brands. Top-shelf all one price, generics a bit lower, sub-generics (crappy white packages with cigs that smoked like packing tape) the cheapest. I punched up a few states that have state minimum prices setup based on wholesale costs and brands are all over the place now. Surprising is some of what I consider decent smokes are now cheaper than ones you couldn’t pay me to smoke.
When I started smoking, a cheap pack of smokes were $1.90, but they were not exactly “fit for consumption,” wretched things. Marlboro and the like were $3.25. This is all less than 10 years ago. Smokeless prices have gone down over time, still around $4 for Cope and the odd cheap can for around $2 if you are looking for it.