[PRCo] Re: The complexity of Pittsburgh back when

[Fred Schneider]

They were 27 or 28 cents every where else.    Actually, I started  
throwing when quit smoking in the 80s, it paid for my trips to  
Europe.   Today at $5.00 a pack, I could not afford to smoke two  
packs a day (that would be $3,600 a year going up in  
smoke ...probably about $2555 in voluntary taxes.

The National Geographic special on China (May 2008) claims that China  
contains 33 percent of the world's smokers.

On May 25, 2008, at 8:36 PM, Derrick J Brashear wrote:

> On Sat, 24 May 2008, Fred Schneider wrote:
>
>> of coaches sitting under the train shed.   And I remember the getting
>> upset about 1960 because I had to pay 50 cents for a pack of butts in
>> the P&LE station ... man did they rip you off ... now they are as
>> much as a gallon of gasoline.
>
> So they've gone down, relatively?
>
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