Why Can't You Buy Just One Cigarette?

I would like to buy just one. It would last me a week and then I'll probably quit. Just need to get through the week. But I think if I bought a whole pack I'd probably throw it in the trash after a day. That'd be a waste of money.

 

Theres a smoke shop by the high school I went to and when i would go there years ago the guy would sell kid single cigarettes.

 

You can get a "Lucy" from shady Arab stores in black neighborhoods.

 

That sounds like a shady set-up. No thanks.

 

Just saying they are available. At least in every city I've been too.

 

You can buy a loosie at the corner bodega. You can also buy one off some person on the street and many times they will give you one for free. It used to be 75c for a loosie in NYC, I think it may be like a dollar now but I don't smoke cigarettes anymore since I smoke e-cigs, cigarettes actually taste nasty to me now even good ones.

 

there use to be a couple of bars here where you could buy one cig from the bartender

 

They can't make as much money that way, maybe consider rolling your own cigs, cheaper and you can just roll ya one.....;-)

 

Years ago you use to be able to buy kiddie packs here that were 15 cigarettes. They made them illegal to make and sell to discourage kids scraping enough money up to buy them. That is the same reason that it is not legal to sell singles.

I get that discouraging kids is a good thing but the reality is that they will manage to buy them is they want them, just like with all things.

 

this, except here its a lucy from an Indian gas station in a middle class black neighborhood. Its not really shady at all, but they're right down the street from a high school so they sell loosies to the high school students. So I guess that is a bit shady, actually.

You could always buy a pack and bum out most of the pack to friends.

 

Lucy's all over NYC And jersey shore- -50cents a for Newport 100, or a Marboro 100, any bodega

 

I don't know anyone who smokes so I can't just get one from someone or give the rest to someone. Also I have a preference.

 

Erm, would you not need to buy a pouch... Similar to buying a packet (albeit cheaper)

 

In Baltimore there's "cigarette dealers" posted up on the corner block.

Your not really a true smoker if you can buy just one cigarette...I think it should be legal tho, it would probably keep more people becoming true smokers when they just want one and now they gotta smoke 20 of em.

Think about buying a single line of coke (if you could) and then think about buying a quarter ounce and think about how bad you'd be fiending after doin all of it.

 

At my secondary school - 11-16 -age,we could buy single cigarettes for 20 pence.The person behind the counter knew we were underage because we had school uniforms on. (I know that weird British institution of putting us in school uniforms) Of course these were the days when I just smoked 2 or 3 cigarettes a day.Long before the point of waking up,coughing,and gasping for a rolley…I remember counting pennies saving up to buy singles.

 

it's really not that unusual to bum a smoke from a stranger. probably especially easy for a female to pull off.

depends where they are. that's why they usually do it in poor areas where homeless people hang out. homeless guys will scrape together 50 cents for a single all day, and eventually end up paying $10 for a pack. and i'm sure they are charging more than 50 cents now, my experience with this was back when a pack was like $3.50.

 

Yeah. I'm definitely not a true smoker. I can totally smoke one cigarette and it will last me a whole week, if I even finish it. I haven't smoked in a long time but every now and then I really want to, but I'm not willing to buy a pack or a pouch, because I feel like it'd make me want it more, then I'd be disgusted in myself and feel I have do something drastic like flushing it or whatever.

 

Called a loosie, not a Lucy. Ace K had it right. And ya in lower income areas u can buy em, common in a lot of US cities I've been to actually. I get what you are saying though op. I am currently quitting cigs and working with a ecig vape.

You could always buy a disposable ecig and use that. Couple puffs whenever.

 

So you've been trying to quit?

I've been through that. It often takes several tries to quit.

The thing that ends up pulling you back into the addiction is when you've quit for a few days, maybe a couple weeks. then something stressful happens, and you say to yourself "I deserve to have a smoke", and then your back on again.

If you can get through the first two weeks, it gets easier and easier.

 

Bum a damn cig lol. Could be otherthinking this one. Aldo idk how it lasts u a week. Take a drag or two Monday, put it put, then a drag or two Wednesday, out, couple Friday night, out, drag sat morning, out lol