3 thoughts on “There’s A Former Smoker In Every Office”
Marlboro started production in 1924. Price of a pack of smokes was 20 cents. Inflation calculator puts that at $3.05 a pack today.
A penny a smoke. I can see that as being a good price, I guess. (I remember paying a buck a pack in the early 90’s. Complaining when the gas station jumped to $1.25.)
Everybody in the cartoon is smoking a pipe or a cigar, though. My googling tells me that you could get a good cigar for a nickel until WWI. I imagine that the guy above paid a dime for his.
I can find that pipe tobacco was taxed at 6 cents a pound back then, but can’t find a good price.
All that to say: the guy is bragging about how good he feels and not how he has extra cash for the pool game come Saturday.Report
Extra cash for the pool game is too sensible a thing for him to be gloating about. Thrift (genuine rather then hypocritical) is not something I feel that Mr. Briggs would be interested in lampooning.Report
I’m not sure it counted anywhere near as expensive enough to register as thrift. For anybody.Report
Marlboro started production in 1924. Price of a pack of smokes was 20 cents. Inflation calculator puts that at $3.05 a pack today.
A penny a smoke. I can see that as being a good price, I guess. (I remember paying a buck a pack in the early 90’s. Complaining when the gas station jumped to $1.25.)
Everybody in the cartoon is smoking a pipe or a cigar, though. My googling tells me that you could get a good cigar for a nickel until WWI. I imagine that the guy above paid a dime for his.
I can find that pipe tobacco was taxed at 6 cents a pound back then, but can’t find a good price.
All that to say: the guy is bragging about how good he feels and not how he has extra cash for the pool game come Saturday.Report
Extra cash for the pool game is too sensible a thing for him to be gloating about. Thrift (genuine rather then hypocritical) is not something I feel that Mr. Briggs would be interested in lampooning.Report
I’m not sure it counted anywhere near as expensive enough to register as thrift. For anybody.Report