It’s $20 a pack up here.
Plus smoking a cigarette…just makes me feel gross.
The disposable ones are a bit expensive but it’s worth it if I’m on the road.
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my GOD 20$ now! cartons like 150$ insane! i still remember going to the corner store paying 3.25$ a pack for players filter filter for my dad at 11-12 years old, and Charlie would always give me the quarter back to buy candy, so 3$ for a 25 pack of TM’s, Now its triple that for floor sweepings,bugs,hair and dust included no extra charge.
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I remember cigarette machines that had slots for six bits (three quarters) and had an arm you would pull to dispense a pack. That was how anyone including kids could buy cigarettes back in the late 70’s 
I remember when the price jumped to a buck a pack, man that seemed like a huge and expensive jump in price back then 
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Almost 12 years combustion free. Mech mod were what allowed me to quit cigarettes for good. I used to love the noisy cricket 🫠
A few years ago I switched to vaporesso xros pods.
I fully support harm reduction and addiction education (but I hate stuff like radio ads for vape shops, for example)
But I do have a brass kennedy ruby 25 for sale with an apocalypse rda
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Yeah, I remember how stale those cigs were too, lol
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I used to love when my mom would let me get her cigs from the machine haha.
Vaping just made me want to smoke more, so I stopped that too. I really enjoy smoking too, but it’s obviously wicked bad for you. I rolled my own too, no filter, so that added to the health demerits haha.
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It was my uncle and grandparents who would let me get them packs. When I started smoking, it was camel non-filters because those were what real men smoked
I would go through two packs a day, handing out more than I smoked myself 
Then one day I was riding my bike in a canyon while smoking. I braked hard so I wouldn’t ride my spokes into a tree branch that was sticking out on the trail I was riding down and I flew over my handlebars, took a HUGE AND DEEP breath of the cigarette in my mouth and landed on my back many feet below… it was a steep slope… when I landed I got the worst taste in my mouth (
sort of like choking on a bong hit nowadays 
) and quit smoking that day. I couldn’t stand the taste of cigarettes after that. A few weeks later I thought I wanted one and bummed a cig from a buddy only to take one drag and crush it out. Packs were a buck back then and my buddy was pissed that I had wasted a nickel! I never took it back up
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I quit for a long time. Then started back up. Then said fuck this. So I went vape and never looked back.
The only clever thing I did is that all my parts are Aspire and all my batteries are the same sized so they are all interchangeable.
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Back in the day, my daily mech.
And my backup
Guess I should have saved my Avid Lyfe mod (1st pic) cause they are now $300 dammmm
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That’s not a vape that’s a fuse from 1936!
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Lmao I built all kinds of crazy vape coils back in the day
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I tried winding my own wires but just found it a pain in the ass.
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I’m sure I still have my coil winding machine around here someplace lol not that I’ll ever need it again. I stopped using mechanical mods the moment I realized I could blow my face off lol
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Takes all the fun out! Lol
You should’ve seen the lengths I’d go to
I liked @ilovebutter aka twistedmesses wrapp8ng quartz rods
And a guy named Tobias buxler I think (can’t remember his instagram) super intricate wire art
And guy named @aspirakles made insane dab coils…
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I mean it’s cool and all but at the end of the day I just want it to work.
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Yep, it’s the nicotine version of growing weed, lol
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“This is a 14 week vape juice guy.”
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“This is a guy that hates the multi-generational lies of corporations that literally take profits more seriously than life itself”
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