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Originally Posted by Pfrog
Back in '93 before I quit, to the best of my memory I was paying around 2.00 a pack and could pick up a 3 pack special for around 5.25.
I was so horribly addicted that I would even wake up in the middle of the night and go down to the den, flip on the TV and smoke about 10 straight before going back to bed ... 5 with morning coffee and while getting ready for work ... 5 or so sitting in the morning rush hour ... We could still smoke in the office in the late 80's so I was always puffing away at the desk, ashtray piled high with 15 - 20 butts by quitting time ... When it got banned inside the office, the AM & PM Smokebreaks were extended (we shoulda been penalized for taking three lunch hours a day) as we would stand there and smoke one after the other back to back (again around 5 at the time) ... 5 or so during actual lunch break ... Another 5 or so on the commute back home ... then another 5 or so before bedtime ... Get up and start all over again!
Holy @#$%! ... I literally smoked three packs a day, if not more, and that is where the term "chain-smoker" came from I suppose ... Again, so glad I was finally able to kick that one to the curb!
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Wow. This is such an amazing story. I too recall (with horror) when smoking was allowed inside at work. I always had a cigarette burning in the ashtray on my desk. I worked in an office where two of us did this all day long. How selfish we were to make the others work in such an awful environment. And it is true that smokers should be penalized for taking extra time to smoke. You really recall it all in graphic detail and tell your story well. Thank you.