Comment on Toyohiro Akiyama deserved better
9point6@lemmy.world 16 hours agoI 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
Akasazh@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
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.
9point6@lemmy.world 16 hours 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