Cigarette Machines
My kids don’t believe me. I tell them when I was a kid, you could go anywhere and buy cigarettes from a machine. When I was just starting to fool around with cigarettes in the early seventies, you could buy them out of a machine for about 50 cents a pack. We had a Dairy Queen close to our junior high school and they had a machine, as every place did. When the owner wasn’t looking we’d buy them from the machine, always Marlboro box. If he caught us, he’d buy them back, yell a lot, then kick us out.
I still remember those cigarettes, the smell and feel of a new pack, and the swimming head and nausea that went along with them. But I stuck it out, and became hopelessly hooked. Today, after having quit 17 years ago, I still miss them.
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Haven’t thought about these things in a long time. My sitter used to send me down to the corner to buy her cigs from one of these. Thinking about that now- it seems so sordid. Attitudes change. And we don’t even notice.