Maggie’s Motivational Pic Thread v2.0 - - New Rules - See Post #1

I remember thirty cents. Three careful trimmed pennies worked.

I quit 17 APR 81. At the time, name brands were $2.19 per carton in the commissary. Think I recently saw a sign advertising seven bucks per pack.

Both my wife and myself smoked for 40+ years, about 3 years ago we decided to use a major surgery for me as a trigger to both quit cold turkey.
As it happened, the machine that goes "beep" while you are under stopped going "beep" for quite a while. I ended up in ICU for nearly a week for a knee replacement.
We both have not smoked since but occasionally I get the urge for a cigar to go with the Bourbon.
 
Both my wife and myself smoked for 40+ years, about 3 years ago we decided to use a major surgery for me as a trigger to both quit cold turkey.
As it happened, the machine that goes "beep" while you are under stopped going "beep" for quite a while. I ended up in ICU for nearly a week for a knee replacement.
We both have not smoked since but occasionally I get the urge for a cigar to go with the Bourbon.

Note to self: Never have knee replacement surgery.
 
Both my wife and myself smoked for 40+ years, about 3 years ago we decided to use a major surgery for me as a trigger to both quit cold turkey.
As it happened, the machine that goes "beep" while you are under stopped going "beep" for quite a while. I ended up in ICU for nearly a week for a knee replacement.
We both have not smoked since but occasionally I get the urge for a cigar to go with the Bourbon.

Sort of like Richard Pryor did. His "Heart Attack" video. Skip to 06:10 for the "Beep" part. :ROFLMAO:

 
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Most of us were fast enough not to....

Crazy shit we survived
I’m surprised any male born in the 40-60’s survived past 25.
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Note to self: Never have knee replacement surgery.
Seriously though. My grandma had one done the She got the other done in short order. She said she would have done the first one sooner had she known how it easy it would be. That was many years ago. Probably 30-35. She is 102 now with those replacements that are almost as old as me.
 
MY mother an inveterate smoker ( 4 packs per day for 50 years)
I would ride my bike ot the corner store to buy a carton of Chesterfields for Ready......$2.00

My father had asked met to buy a pack of cigarettes for him while we were vacationing on a resort island with very religious/conservative values (or so I thought). Apparently, he was busy doing somethign and couldn't go himself. I think I might have been 12-13 at the time. The clerk looked at me and said, "Sorry... you need to be 16 to buy cigarettes, no matter who they're for."

Do they still "card" for cigarettes like they do for alcohol?
 
1970s for me. You put caps in them like a cap gun. Throw them in the air, when the hit something hard enough it would detonate the cap. Hours of fun and bruises. Not like getting hit by a clacker though.
Unfortunately the do not always land the right way down. The fins are also made of metal so the contraption had to go at quite a rate of speed to get a successful bang. Hence all the bruises and broken windows.
 
Back when they had cigarette vending machines…….yes, I’m that old.

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Back in jr high, we knew of a motel next to the Fremont mall that had a cig vending machine just inside a side door that was usually open and rarely watched. Think cost was around 50 cents.

Gave up the bad habit in high school for Copenhagen when we moved out west.

A lot easier to get away with chewing in class :ROFLMAO: