More bad news for smokers

Teresa


Joined: 21/11/2007
Posts: 1018

Message Posted:
02/01/2011 22:27

Cigarettes have gone up in price by 1.5TL a pack regardless of make. Time for me to think about giving up i think !!!!

Maz


Joined: 29/03/2009
Posts: 1924

Message Posted:
02/01/2011 22:49

Good idea, Teresa. You will live longer and have more money to enjoy it with! Good luck. If I can do it, anyone can!

phylray



Joined: 21/09/2007
Posts: 1727

Message Posted:
02/01/2011 22:54

Good luck to you. I hope you make it, many do and it gets easier ! xx

frontalman



Joined: 28/02/2008
Posts: 499

Message Posted:
02/01/2011 23:42

Hi Teresa



I have a section from a book entitled "I don't smoke" which I believe can help you if you really want to kick the habit. Let me know if you want it and I will drop it up to you.



Mark

nurseawful



Joined: 06/02/2009
Posts: 5934

Message Posted:
03/01/2011 07:39

Teresa,



I got cigarettes yesterday from Starling and they were still the same price. When do they go up?



Chris

Teresa


Joined: 21/11/2007
Posts: 1018

Message Posted:
03/01/2011 08:18

Chris most have gone up already so if you can still get them at the old price then stock up quick.

Groucho



Joined: 26/04/2008
Posts: 7993

Message Posted:
03/01/2011 09:25

Or don't... why not make this the day you decide that enough is enough.

Groucho



Joined: 26/04/2008
Posts: 7993

Message Posted:
03/01/2011 09:27

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-12104287



I actually thought the thread would be about the net closing in Spain....

Hobnob


Joined: 20/11/2010
Posts: 55

Message Posted:
03/01/2011 09:32

Teresa,



A new years resolution about to start I think?

Sazna


Joined: 12/09/2009
Posts: 1177

Message Posted:
03/01/2011 09:43

i know someone who swears by this it helped her to give up worth a try



http://smokestik.com/



godd luck what ever method you choose

Tenakoutou



Joined: 27/07/2009
Posts: 4110

Message Posted:
03/01/2011 10:26

I wonder how this latest price increase compares with the price of a packet of 'gaspers' in the South - does anybody know, for sure?

flowerfairy


Joined: 17/09/2008
Posts: 1277

Message Posted:
03/01/2011 10:37

I was watching a programme the other night, it involved a sexual attack ,other people using really bad language, others fighting, and when a man light up a cigarette, they put a fuzzy blob over the cigarette so you couldn't actually see the cigarette. Now that's crazy.

matula


Joined: 07/07/2008
Posts: 647

Message Posted:
03/01/2011 11:22

I don't know where you bought your cigs.from Teresa but I have just bought from Bektas in Lapta and they are still the same price---5.75 tl.

LeYLeY



Joined: 12/09/2010
Posts: 221

Message Posted:
03/01/2011 11:28

I havnt smoked since last year! I FEEL GOOD WOOHOO!!!

jock1



Joined: 06/01/2008
Posts: 3786

Message Posted:
03/01/2011 11:33

Lucky Good...........

aussiejock



Joined: 06/10/2010
Posts: 350

Message Posted:
03/01/2011 11:36

I buy Tobacco in Oz, a packet of Champion Ruby 50 gram, cost me 50.00 lira, and there is talk about prices going up again, it still doesn't stop people from smoking, but I can buy 5 packets (250 grams) at the airport for 38.00 lira, just shows the amount the government receives in tax from Tobacco.







Robert

daisy dukes


Joined: 06/09/2008
Posts: 3815

Message Posted:
03/01/2011 11:45

There are some new cigarettes called Karriyer....and at 2.50tl a packet...not bad at all! Pretty good smoke too....





DD

yrret


Joined: 17/08/2010
Posts: 761

Message Posted:
03/01/2011 11:52

It's ironic isn't it, it's 'bad news' for smoker because the price has gone up a little.



To put this into perspective, lets list the diseases that smoking can cause, and then see what the real 'bad news' is.



And remember for those who smoke around their own kids, or let other people it's the same bad news for them too, only not self inflicted.



Never tried one myself, probably never will now, but can understand the addiction, I mean I love a bar of white chocolate!

waddo


Joined: 29/11/2008
Posts: 1966

Message Posted:
03/01/2011 13:22

I see petrol has gone up as well, how many have stopped driving????

Groucho



Joined: 26/04/2008
Posts: 7993

Message Posted:
03/01/2011 13:26

Cigarettes are a curse on the whole human race

A man is a monkey with one in his face

Take warning dear sister, take warning dear brother

There's a fire on one end and a fool on the other



Red Ingle

flutterby


Joined: 11/01/2008
Posts: 214

Message Posted:
03/01/2011 13:28

Think government taxes are bad here then, how to explain how a packet of cigarettes in the UK cost £7.99 and with the recent rise in VAT to 20% in UK, who knows what they are going to cost!!!

rickoshea


Joined: 29/12/2010
Posts: 8

Message Posted:
03/01/2011 15:11

Fantastic news. I vote for more tax on the filth. Make them pay more!! Cut tax on clean people, people who don't smell of a disgusting lingering tobacco oder. More tax on the brown fingered brigade.

MsGarnet


Joined: 04/01/2009
Posts: 989

Message Posted:
03/01/2011 15:39

Waddo - obviously a weak joke - after all, without petrol, you wouldn't get food delivered to supermarkets, or indeed any consumables - get to a Hospital quickly - public transport - so on and so forth - NO-ONE needs to smoke. A friend dropped off a Christmas present from another friend, to me - and as I opened the carrier bag - the smell of smoke actually brought my stomach up - although the present giver lady walks everywhere and is in her early seventies - she coughs 24/7 and at the moment, is battling an appalling cold - not helped by her smoking habit. She is so thin (eats very little, preferring a cigarette) you could read a newspaper through her; none of us are perfect, we all have our coping mechanisms, I am merely making the point, at this juncture, society relies on petrol - not one person on this planet NEEDS to smoke a cigarette..........

Teresa


Joined: 21/11/2007
Posts: 1018

Message Posted:
03/01/2011 15:40

Most of the shops in Lefkosa are now charging the new price so is Yigit in Karsiyaka but i did manage to get some at the old price in starling so good on them and any of the other shops that have not increased the price on their old stock.

For all the non smokers that felt the need to preach about the negative affects thankyou i have taken on board what you have said!!!!!

sienna


Joined: 09/01/2009
Posts: 1627

Message Posted:
03/01/2011 16:22

message 17 probably the scrappings form the floor at that price ( as they do)

yrret


Joined: 17/08/2010
Posts: 761

Message Posted:
03/01/2011 16:47

MsGarnet,

Know what you mean, but why is it the smell (often more of a stench) lingers on some people and not others. I can never figure out, unless it depends of whether the person smokes inside and traps all the fumes, or outside.

I've been sat in our house in the UK when a person comes to the front door, and no word of I lie, when the wife opened the front door, I could smell they were a smoker from the living room.

Yet, I have been in the company of other smokers and you can't even detect that they smoke.



But then a person has just walked into my office here and by the smell of things hasn't washed his clothes or arm pits for a few days, think I prefer the smell of smoke!

waddo


Joined: 29/11/2008
Posts: 1966

Message Posted:
03/01/2011 16:56

MsGarnet, No not a joke, weak or otherwise. I see it has given you the chance to put your point across most strongle, regardless of the feelsings of others so at least it did elicit a response that you obviously felt you needed to make.

The title of the thread gave the good news you would have wished to hear but the person who posted it most probably meant it as information and not as a request for the smoking police to pounce on another thread and make their never ending point (flak jacket put on at this point) at the expense of smokers.

My point was - sadly misswed - that all things go up in price and that some have more effect on people than others. The question is, when petrol goes up in price do you stop driving or take the public transport or heaven forbid, walk? After all by reducing the emissions yourself you make your air better to breathe and the world safer for everyone - or is it only smokers you wish to get rid of?

By the way - I know I have lost the argument!

carollynne


Joined: 19/11/2009
Posts: 128

Message Posted:
03/01/2011 17:19

re msg 11



20 Benson & Hedges in Larnaca area now €4.10 or €4.15 depending where you shop ;)

yrret


Joined: 17/08/2010
Posts: 761

Message Posted:
03/01/2011 17:27

Crikey, that's cheap.



Incidentally, for those who do smoke and maybe consider flying through LCA, apparently, and there are posters up there to tell you this, you can take 2,000 cigs tax free between EU countries.

With the saving, this could pay for the taxi fair to LCA so factor this into your travel calculations.

apc2010


Joined: 28/07/2010
Posts: 1689

Message Posted:
03/01/2011 17:28

yrret it is 3,200 cigs for personal use .........not sure for loose tobacco.??

yrret


Joined: 17/08/2010
Posts: 761

Message Posted:
03/01/2011 17:36

Sorry you are correct apc, 3,200 not 2,000, even more saving

The return on investment is increasing by the minute.

apc2010


Joined: 28/07/2010
Posts: 1689

Message Posted:
03/01/2011 17:41

I have you are not suggesting that certain people use this allowance to pay for their flights .....lol

basheer



Joined: 22/12/2008
Posts: 949

Message Posted:
04/01/2011 00:13

if you all give up for 3 months prices will crash and be cheap again in NC

Lilli



Joined: 21/07/2008
Posts: 13081

Message Posted:
04/01/2011 00:15

prices went up souh side by 4 cents a packet two weeks ago, this side is getting on par. Well that may be good as they cant confiscate if they are the same price xxx

LaptaMike


Joined: 07/10/2009
Posts: 1679

Message Posted:
05/01/2011 22:12

msg 1. Are you sure it's 1.5tl a packet and not 1.5tl a carton? (10 packs).



I bought a carton today and that had gone up 1.5tl.

Blackbird



Joined: 11/08/2009
Posts: 1432

Message Posted:
06/01/2011 01:15

At these prices - if I did smoke - I don't think that I could afford holidays.........