had cigarette vending machunes as late as 1968 when i was a bartender at 'ciros' on the bay-w. amityville n.y.-think certain 'dese,dems, & doze' guys had something 2 do with them-NOBODY screwed around or tried to beat them.
My Dad gave me .75 cents and I would ride my bike to The Associated Supermarket in South Queens and buy him Camels from the machine. Mom smoked Kent. When we drove on the Belt Pkwy. to visit their parents in Brooklyn on the weekends, I would have asthma attacks in the car when they both smoked together.....esp. in the winter with the windows of our Dodge Dart rolled up.
Ahhh.....cancerous 2nd hand cigarette smoke.....gotta love it !
Posted by Duff at 11:40 am (PDT) on Fri October 26, 2012
They were everywhere. Either just inside the door or near the restrooms at every theater, restaurant, bar, bowling alley, car wash, airport, library, hospital waiting room...
Last time I was in Stamford CT, this past summer, I spotted one like this in a place called Curley's Diner in the downtown area. I'm old enough to remember when you put 30 cents into the machine, pulled the lever, and received a pack of cigarettes with two or three pennies in change packed under the outer cellophane of the package wrapper. My brand was Lucky Strike.
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Ahhh.....cancerous 2nd hand cigarette smoke.....gotta love it !
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