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I'm one of those smokers who is always 'quitting' but one of the challenges I've faced is that every time I break down and decide to buy a cigarette, I'm legally obligated to buy a pack of 20, since they are not sold individually.
It seems kinda odd that a product known to be deadly and very addictive would require its purchases to be in bulk. You can go into a bar and get a shot of whiskey without being required to buy a bottle, so why is it that it is illegal to buy or sell individual cigarettes? I'd be willing to pay more per cigarette - up to 75 cents or a dollar - if it meant that ultimately I'd be smoking less.
When I have leftover cigarettes from a pack they seem to burn a hole in my pocket and I smoke when otherwise it may not occur to me. When I have cigarettes I smoke a lot more than when I don't, I guess it's a "smoke 'em if ya got 'em" type of thing.
Here are some reasons I've seen as to why they aren't sold individually:
-easier access to minors
-no warning labels on individual cigarettes
-encourages homeless/bums/'riff-raff'
-taxing issue
-unsanitary/unhygienic to dispense them
None of these seem like good enough reasons to ban individual sales, so my theory is that this is a way they keep people like me smoking, at least on more regular basis. Or maybe there are more legitimate reasons I haven't considered, which is what I'm trying to find out by posting this. Thoughts?
None of these seem like good enough reasons to ban individual sales
Actually they are all good reasons why a place of business wouldn't want to do such a thing. I've never bought an individual egg either, or hot dog, or slice of bread from a store.
If you want ONE you can buy one from a friend who has a pack
Actually they are all good reasons why a place of business wouldn't want to do such a thing. I've never bought an individual egg either, or hot dog, or slice of bread from a store.
If you want ONE you can buy one from a friend who has a pack
We don't have enough prison space to put people in who smoke cigarettes. So the answer is NO.
We don't have enough prison space to house people who smoke marijuana either - when will America wake up to the fact that the War on Drugs is a failure and needs to end?
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