you got to be rich these days to smoke
I gave them up many many years ago, but for me it wasnt because of the price or health at the time, it was more to do with, i got to a point where i was just doing it out of habit.
Id make a coffee, light up a smoke, then id have 2 puffs and butt it out. So i figured, time to stop. I went cold turkey and the first month was hard, but it was more a case of just breaking the hbbits rather than the addiction.
But yes, cigarette prices are insane at the moment, hence the whole tobacco store brake ins and so forth.
I heard today, kids are been paid to steal them at $5 a packet. Its just getting out of control