When I was a lad there was a very nice (so we thought at the time) lady shopkeeper used to sell us a single cig and a couple of matches in a paper bag for 3d. The cig was always a number 6 if you wanted filtered or a woodbine if not. Now. 10 woodies were 1/10 and 10 number 6 were, I think, 1/9. No idea how much 20's were as they were a financial impossibilty! Thinking about it years later she made a fortune out of schoolkids - 3d a cig makes it 2/6 for 10! so she made at least 9d extra on every packet - probably more if she split up 20s.

Eeeeee, them were the days. Why does the bloody government have to intervene and spoil all our fun.

Cough, cough...

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