I think that ciggies ought to be sold in packs of one !
Same size packs as 20's of course. Think of the fun to be had seeing those poor addicted smokers struggling from the newsagents back to their car with 40-60 packets in their pockets !
They used to put less in packets designed for vending machines. 18 instead of 20 and the machine would still take a half crown and dispense change.
Of course, that's going back a while.
I have 1000 fags in sleeves of 200. Stocking up for last winter before Mic became ill. Bought from Asda so perfectly legit. Looks like I'm stuck with them as I only smoke roll ups and not many of those.
In my day, when I gave up smoking in the 70's at age 25, I can remember that packs of cigarettes came with coupons inside...2 for packs of 10 and 5 for packs of 20. But, disappointingly, there were never any Iron Lungs in the Embassy catalogue !
I shall never forget, and it's over 40 years ago now, when, after a boozy night out at university, a friend of mine and myself ended up in a motorway service station as we were starving and everything used to shut down at 10.30 in those days. He went to the cigarette machine, inserted 50p and to his chagrin came back, not with 20 B&H, but a packet of rainbow coloured condoms! It was his last 50p piece.
Remember when ciggies came in packets of 5? For 1/- (5p) I could get 5 Woodbines @10d, a book of paper matches for 1d and a penny chewing gum for 1d to disguise the smell when I got home. Total, one shilling. Happy chilhood memories.