How Expensive Smoking Is

I don't smoke. So I don't usually keep track of cigarette prices. But the other day I was in line at Walmart, and it happened to be the line where the cigarettes are. The prices were scary!

Marlboros were in the $56 range for a carton. The highest priced ones I saw were Virginia Slims, which were just over $60 a carton. 10 packs to a carton.

I do see the signs also when driving by convenience stores, and it seems like I saw some advertised that were in that general price range, not quite Virginia Slims high but in the upper 40s or lower 50s.

That would be getting to be an expensive habit, say, if you were a 3-pack a day smoker.