1925 Radio Times..........................
Vintage adverts Page 69
1973........................ Bought a 25g pack of GV this week for my son - £20.30! Gulp Glad I don't smoke anymore, but can remember in the 90s going over to Zeebrugge and buying a 50g for £1.10!!!...................
Quote: Hercules Grytpype Thynne @ 26th September 2023, 8:44 AM1973........................ Bought a 25g pack of GV this week for my son - £20.30! Gulp Glad I don't smoke anymore, but can remember in the 90s going over to Zeebrugge and buying a 50g for £1.10!!!...................
Ha! Yeah, the prices are ridiculous now. I gave up about 10 years ago myself, and I think it was just before the prices started really going up and the cigs were put in plain packaging and stopped being openly displayed in shops etc. I didn't do rollies, but I remember being able to buy 10 B&H and a box of matches after school in the late 80s/early 90s and have change from a quid.
1934. Ahh......collecting fag cards - anyone on here do this?
Quote: a plate @ 27th September 2023, 2:47 AMbut I remember being able to buy 10 B&H and a box of matches after school in the late 80s/early 90s and have change from a quid.
Speaking of prices - see the ad above - a packet of 10 for 2½p! And these weren't a cheap brand of fags!
1973................BLOODY HELL! They've shot up in price in 40 years! 😆
I remember collecting the catalogue vouchers
Interesting that it says "every packet carries a government health warning", as far back as 1973! I assumed that was started in the late 80s or so.
(EDIT: Just looked on google and it says health warnings were introduced on cig packets in the UK in 1971, and in America in 1966)
1893....................
1959, with Bertie Bassett ..........................
Interesting they refer to 1/2d as 14 pence. (7p)
Quote: Hercules Grytpype Thynne @ 28th September 2023, 8:44 AM1973................BLOODY HELL! They've shot up in price in 40 years! 😆
Fags were cheap then, that's why even kids smoked. I remember No.6 being the ciggy of choice for school kids a few years after this date, and the strange custom of swapsies which accounted to two or three no.6 in exchange for a sought after Benny Hedgehog that some of the flash kids had in their shiny gold packets. No.6 had a very distinctive aroma, I can still smell it now, not unpleasant.
Quote: Chappers @ 30th September 2023, 9:28 AMInteresting they refer to 1/2d as 14 pence. (7p)
Eh? It's one and tuppence (fourteen pennies) for a 1/2 lb box or seven pence for a 1/4 lb box as I read it. No discount for bulk 
In the late 60's I used to toddle over to Nottingham to trade in my No6 coupons at a building they had on Player Street.
Quote: Chappers @ 30th September 2023, 9:28 AMInteresting they refer to 1/2d as 14 pence. (7p)
Yes, agree with fasty - you've lost me there. 1/2d = One shilling and 2 pence. c. 7p in decimal money. Where do you see 14 pence?
And the quarter pound box is 7d (seven pence) c. 3p in decimal
When I was at school there was a rumour that JPS cigarette filters had fibre glass in them to make them more addictive. Total rubbish of course but it still put me off them.
1904 - Black Cat fags were older than I thought............
1968 American muscle car ad..................................
