CIGARETTES, ONLY $1.00 PER CARTON:<br /> <br /> Can anyone besides me remember the time when a person in St. John's could buy a carton of cigarettes for one dollar. Yes I am talking $1.00 for a carton of cigarettes containing ten packs of twenty cigarettes for a total of two hundred cigarettes. Or to put it another way &Acirc;&frac12; cent per cigarette. Of course a person could not normally buy a carton of cigarettes for $1.00 at the corner store. Unless you knew the clerk who worked there really well and the clerk didn't own the store and was willing to sell you cigarettes in an &acirc;��under the table&acirc;�� sort of way for a dollar of less per carton. I started smoking at a very young age but never knew anyone who might be described as an &acirc;��under the table&acirc;�� sort of person.<br /> <br /> As such I had to find where and from whom I could buy cigarettes for $1.00 per carton and from being a &acirc;��Nosy Parker&acirc;�� which was what I remember my mother saying I was every time I asked her a question I knew two places I could buy cigarettes for a dollar a carton. One place was by knowing someone from Peperell Air Force Base who could get them for you or you could go aboard a Portuguese or Spanish trawler, docked at Job brother's wharf, and buy them from any crew member which I did while selling &quot;The Sunday Herald&quot;. So buying cheaply priced cigarettes was not a problem but one major obstacle remained and that was finding the dollar to pay for the cigarettes which I solved by waiting until next week when I had gotten my dollar, plus tickets to The Star Theater for selling my quota of The Sunday Herald. Oh, the joyful times of childhood by acting like an adult by smoking a Camel unfiltered.   Submitted By: Randolph Toope