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Mr Puggsly said:
sethnintendo said:

Not up to the late 90s.  It was around the early 2000s that grocery stores finally started putting them behind counter or glass.  I know this because I used to steal cigs in high school sometimes.  Hell even gas stations would have them out on the floor or on the counter sometimes.  This was when they were like a couple dollars a pack though.

As a kid I remember seeing vending machines with cigarettes.

Things change, prices have gone way up, stealing is more likely now.

Yea don't see those vending machines.  Last time I saw one was at a strip club (only gone twice in my life to those establishments).  Right about the area though because even though northside of Austin has decent neighborhoods the homeless like to roam in the area due to better hand outs at the corners probably.  I live in suburb of Austin to the north but they aren't here because I believe the city that I'm in has a no loitering policy.  So you don't see any on the corners once you go north enough.