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Toyohiro Akiyama deserved better (thelemmy.club)
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[–] 16 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (5 children)

What is the cost of a pack in Japan? When I quit I was at a pack a day, costing me around 300 euro.

edit. The cost is around 5 dollar, so that's 20 dollars a day just on smokes. Holy cow

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  • [–] 11 points 3 months ago* (2 children)

    I definitely saw 500 yen packs on sale when I was there a couple of years ago, which would be about £2.30/$3.10

    Given I think a 20 deck of cigs in the UK is about £12 now, it's still crazy cheap to smoke out there comparatively, so I can only imagine it was even cheaper then

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Yeah it said 500-600 yen, but it converted it to 3-4 / 5-6 dollar. I just took the middle price.

    Turns out it's not like 4 dollars. It's very cheap in comparison, however if you smoke that much it's still costly.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago

    Oh yeah, 100% it's an expensive habit whatever the unit price is.

    I was just taken aback a bit as someone who had quit several years prior, that they could buy cigs in 2024 for half the price I was paying as a teenager two decades ago

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