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Go to any hood part of the city and everyone and their mother has a cigarette hanging out of their mouth. Last time I checked, a pack is up to $14 per pack!
I was in the South Bronx down by the court houses and there was a massive line of people applying or extending some kind of welfare. Every single person in line has a smoke in their mouth.
How the hell do you afford $14 packs of cigarettes (or even $8 packs that "fell off a truck") when you can't even feed your family?
First of all nobody in their right mind buys a pack of cigs in NYC at the store.
Everyone knows you either buy loosies (bodegas in the hood or out in the street) or you buy a pack from someone who got the connect. I sell packs of Newports for the low myself. Get them in Virginia and flip them up here. Anyone who buys a pack of Newports from a store up here is an idiot.
First of all nobody in their right mind buys a pack of cigs in NYC at the store.
Everyone knows you either buy loosies (bodegas in the hood or out in the street) or you buy a pack from someone who got the connect. I sell packs of Newports for the low myself. Get them in Virginia and flip them up here. Anyone who buys a pack of Newports from a store up here is an idiot.
Anyone who buys any cigarettes is an idiot.
Poor people's situation is often exacerbated because they're not smart enough to figure out how the world works.
First of all nobody in their right mind buys a pack of cigs in NYC at the store.
Everyone knows you either buy loosies (bodegas in the hood or out in the street) or you buy a pack from someone who got the connect. I sell packs of Newports for the low myself. Get them in Virginia and flip them up here. Anyone who buys a pack of Newports from a store up here is an idiot.
He's right you know; WhyRUMad thought you were up on things.
The above or people simply bum/beg cigarettes off someone. Have seen people on the street from the homeless to whatever walk up to strangers bumming ciggies. Heaven help you if you light up or are smoking on the street. An increasing thing over the past decades as indoor smoking has been banned pretty much everywhere.
I don't smoke but have seen some darn bold homeless and or poor walk up to people on the streets asking for a cigarette, and some get very indignant or belligerent when told "no".
Go to any hood part of the city and everyone and their mother has a cigarette hanging out of their mouth. Last time I checked, a pack is up to $14 per pack!
I was in the South Bronx down by the court houses and there was a massive line of people applying or extending some kind of welfare. Every single person in line has a smoke in their mouth.
How the hell do you afford $14 packs of cigarettes (or even $8 packs that "fell off a truck") when you can't even feed your family?
Just as with gas and so many other high priced things in NYC, people who know get theirs from out of state, cigarettes are no exception.
Once you leave the NY/NJ/PA area ciggies are darn cheap in the South. You can go to VA, DC, Maryland, etc.. and load up. Come back to NYC and keep some for yourself and sell the rest off .
Even better post Eric Garner mess the NYPD largely doesn't bother with people selling loosies.
"Last week, nearly a year after Eric Garner’s death, loose untaxed cigarettes were being openly peddled during the evening rush on the crowded streets of East Harlem, at times in plain view of New York Police Department officers on foot patrol.
“Newports, Newports, Newports,” a bearded vendor barked along Lexington Avenue near 125th Street, his voice fading as an officer approached and then passed by. “Newports, Newports, Newports.”
Since Mr. Garner’s death, “the police don’t bother me about selling loosies,” said Yusef Malbon, 42 years old, another peddler who stays in a nearby homeless shelter and uses the $8 to $16 he can make in a day to wash his clothes and buy food. “They don’t care about it as much as they used to.” Loose Cigarette Arrests in NYC Drop in Year After Eric Garner
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