Tobacco Card Collectors Who Use Tobacco Products

[deadballfreaK]

By the time I was 19 I smoked 2-3 packs a day. Started working in an underground coal mine at 20. Can't smoke underground. I cut back to 1/2 to 1 pack and started chewing snuff and scrap. I always promised myself I'd quit but I didn't even when my Dad died from smoking. Finally three years later my dentist told me he was concerned about the sores in my mouth. Turned to be pre-cancerous lesions. Didn't have to hit me over the head then. May 6, 1996 I smoked and chewed my last. To me giving up the cigs was easy, but I still crave a lip full of Copenhagen today.

[Ronnie73]

I never have and never will. I just never got into it. Same thing with alcohol. I always figured more money for collectibles. That and i've been very unhealthy my whole life and didn't want to add to my problems. When I was young, I didn't collect any vintage because I connected them to tobacco and felt like there was a minimum age requirement to collect or even show interest in them. I never gave other non tobacco vintage any thought either because they were always with the tobacco cards. I know now that it sounds kinda funny but I was a wierd kid that carried a book bag to school and was called the walking tag/yard sale and never had school stuff in my book bag but did have coins, stamps, cards, and comics to sell or trade in it.

For the people that get cards from others that have a smoke smell, get a Sharper Image Air Ionizer or other brand and just set the card on a table next to it over night. By morning, the smell will be completely gone.

[deadballfreaK]

Originally Posted by Ronnie73

I never have and never will. I just never got into it. Same thing with alcohol. I always figured more money for collectibles. That and i've been very unhealthy my whole life and didn't want to add to my problems. When I was young, I didn't collect any vintage because I connected them to tobacco and felt like there was a minimum age requirement to collect or even show interest in them. I never gave other non tobacco vintage any thought either because they were always with the tobacco cards. I know now that it sounds kinda funny but I was a wierd kid that carried a book bag to school and was called the walking tag/yard sale and never had school stuff in my book bag but did have coins, stamps, cards, and comics to sell or trade in it.

I expect there are more than a few weird kids here. I was and still am. I think I only tried smoking to finally join in with the "normal teens". Not smart.

[TheBig6]

I smoked for 50yrs...Age 11 to 61
Been chewing Nicoret for last 4 years.
I am down from 4mg gum to 2mg though.

[deadballfreaK]

I was in a convenience store the other day and the young girl ahead of me paid $7.50 for a pack of Marlboros. I wanted to smack some sense into her, but I was buying a 30 pack of beer for over twice that.

[TUM301]

1 or 2 cigars a day. no booze but continuous "cup a Joe" a day !

[bbcard1]

Used to do one smallish cigar a day...quit because of insurance...I own a company and there is a pretty substantial policy in place and it was crazy expensive if you even casually smoke. If you look at the data on cigars and don't inhale the smoke into your lungs, it's really not that bad...cigar smokers actually have a lower incidence of lung cancer than non smokers (by a point, which probably equates to socioeconomic factors). Still smells bad.

[drmondobueno]

Quit smoking in 1992 after a doctor spent 3 hours removing polyps from my sinuses. Apparently I was allergic to something n e cigarette smoke, imagine that. Still own some Altria stock, my wallet likes the dividend.

[EvilKing00]

Originally Posted by deadballfreaK

I was in a convenience store the other day and the young girl ahead of me paid $7.50 for a pack of Marlboros. I wanted to smack some sense into her, but I was buying a 30 pack of beer for over twice that.

$7.50 omg, in NYC they are over $12.00 a pack!

[Ease]

$4.00 for a pack of Marlboros here in Tennessee. Of course there is a "discount" tobacco store on every corner, even the gas station tobacco prices are competitive here.