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in my case , the DRs say it is a bad habit , can not disagree with that , BUT , 

 

it beats me drinking to dull the chronic pain of over 40 years , been there , done that , leads to worse issues 

 

I ain't gonna get out of this world alive , so it is , what it is 

 

kinda be the lesser of the evils 

 

 CB 

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14 hours ago, John Kloehr said:

Still kind of a Hobson's choice. Smoking is going to either kill me or contribute to my demise, I know this. Migraine prevented me from living (long live triptans while they worked though). I've been mostly living for some decades now.

 

I was on a lot of other drugs to manage the pain after I ran into MOU, quit all of those (some quite addictive and one had horrible withdrawals without cravings, that one took a couple months) as it was well over a year where I was existing but not living.

 

Have you tried the patches or gum?

Still get the nicotine but not all of the other crap they put in cigarettes.

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32 minutes ago, Cypress Sun said:

 

Have you tried the patches or gum?

Still get the nicotine but not all of the other crap they put in cigarettes.

Absolutely tried them, and the inhalers. They help knock down the addiction but do nothing for the headache.

 

Also tried the nicotine vapes, when I found an unflavored one. They give me a wet cough after a couple days; something about the vape fluid. Learned later kids who were over-using the vapes (before age restrictions on purchase) were getting really bad lung problems and going on ventilators.

 

English cigarettes don't have all the crap in them not that this makes them safe. I lost my source for them during CoViD. They are not safe, but the average English smoker smokes twice as much as US smokers and the cancer rate due to smoking is half of hours. Certainly not safe but there is a difference.

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I remember when I was in the Army, you could get a carton for 2 bucks

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For the sailors - they cheaper at sea then they were in port?

 

I remember Daddy telling me they were. Like maybe 3 cents a pack at sea while they were a nickel in port.

 

He joined in 1940. That should help to explain the prices.

 

I remember in the early 70s not only were they cheaper on base because there was no tax, but they were all different prices. Off base cigarettes were 75¢ a pack. Didn't matter if they were straight or filters or king size or what. But on base, Lucky straights were 45 cents. Filter tips cost more, which is why I was smoking Luckies.

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