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> My dad has this story where he sent our cook’s teenage son with some money to get some cigarettes. And he couldn’t bring himself to buy them because a pack co
by cipheredStones 5y ago
> My dad has this story where he sent our cook’s teenage son with some money to get some cigarettes. And he couldn’t bring himself to buy them because a pack cost as much as what he was paid in a week.
This is odd... Did none of the working class smoke (surprising), or were there vast differentials in price between different kinds of cigarettes?
- ido 5y agoWhen I spent a couple months in northern India about 20 years ago a lot of people smoked what seemed like self-rolled cigarettes (or at least they looked different that the kind of cigarettes that you get in the west). Western cigarette brands were also available.