rickshaw92 wrote:Bronco wrote:Back when I lived in North Carolina I worked for a cigarette manufacturer and smoked three packs a day. I quit when they raised the price from thirty cents a pack to thirty five cents a pack.
So what were cigarettes like back in 1906?
I can actually tell you.
When I was in jail in 1987 the county jail had a 100+ year contract with the Bull Durham tobacco company. So prisoners got a free pouch once a week if they wanted.
It was a burlap sack, papers were not gummed so you had to fuse it with saliva and you were supposed to squeeze the tobacco out on the paper like you would toothpaste, if toothpaste was dried and in powder form.
I am still really good at rolling cigs because moist tobacco is so much easier to handle. They were not good smokes but they were free at least.
They stopped making them in 1988 and jails were starting to go smoke free by then.