I admit it…. I am weak!

LOL!  I must say that I quit cigarettes many years ago (thank God!) and now believe that quitting model collecting is MUCH harder....really.

great buys Kevin, Thunderbird is one of my real favorites. I well remember them quitten days! Tough going. Over 30 years now. Now I'm struggling with sugar, I just walk past a cake shop and put on 2 kilos. As for diecasts, that lasted for about 5 minutes about a week ago!

Two great snags - Congrats! Don't worry; diecasts are not fattening! Only the tires have calories.

ALL together:  "Hi Kevin" 

Kevins...first I say congratulations on dumping the cigarette addiction.  Sorry to hear you had a stroke some years ago, but sounds like it was the nudge you needed to give up smoking.  Pat yourself on the back! 

As a side note to the cigarettes, my Dad smoked 4 packs of Camels a day (yea, you read that right, 4 packs of Camels a day) for over 35 years.  He had a heart attack in 1980 and was advised by his doctor to quit smoking.  HE DIDN'T LISTEN! 

A year later in October 1981 (coming up on 44 years), he died at the young age of 55 of another heart attack!  Next to his couch was a coffee table with an ash tray filled with cigarette butts. 

I was only 30 back then.  After his funeral, I was in charge of his affairs and while moving his car out of his garage to get ready to sell it, on the front seat was a brand new carton of Camel cigarettes.  I remember tearing up with sadness, and then I got angry.  I remember saying out loud, "Dad, why didn't you listen to your doctor?". 

So again Kevins, I'm proud of you!  As for your diecast model addiction, I'm not a doctor, but I'd advise you to go full throttle with your collecting and keep feeding the addiction on this one.  Good luck!

Many Baby Boomers  had fathers who smoked 1-4 packs a day; and of course, most paid the price.  My father smoked Lucky Strike,  2 packs a day - he was gone two weeks after his 67th birthday.

I gave up cigarettes in '68 and 2 years later I took up smoking cigars for the next 33 years and quit them.  I started collecting diecast cars in 2000 when I retired  and stopped collecting them in 2019 [1:18] all for the same reason, the cost went up.  Strictly cost is what it took, Cigarettes were between $2.00 & $3.00 per carton for years and for years I promised my family that if that price went above $5.00 per carton I would quit and I did. After a couple of years a gentleman I was working with smoked cigars and would give me one for lunch after a week I felt like a mooch so I bought a pack of cigars to repay him and I was hooked for the next 33 years. When I retired the cost of cigars was up and so I quit them.  Diecast I collected over 355 of them and the manufacturers basically stopped making new mold cars I was interested in so I may pick up 1 or 2 per year but basically have quit buying diecast. I went from all 1:18 to 1:43 for the last couple of years before I stopped, availability & again price. My collection was of American cars,  1949 to 1971.. Now I have 146 1:18 cars and 44 1:43 and 15 1:24 and quite content where I am at. But anybody want to buy 88 1:18 cars?

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"I promised my family that I'd quit if the price went above $5.00 per carton...." 

Five years ago, I freaked out  as I passed a well-organized, glass & stainless locked display cabinet filled with cartons of cigarettes.....   I just couldn't believe it.  Some cartons were $100        😬 😬      What are they today, $140, $160?    😬 😬 

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Many Baby Boomers  had fathers who smoked 1-4 packs a day; and of course, most paid the price.  My father smoked Lucky Strike,  2 packs a day - he was gone two weeks after his 67th birthday.

My dad died when I was 7. He picked up the 'habit' onboard the USS Pittsburgh during WWII. He was 42 when he died in 1954.

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He was 42 when he died in 1954.

...how sad.   Without cigarettes, who knows how many more years he could've had.  

@chris Really! Mom made it to 98 years and 1 month. And although my brother died at 76+, my sister is currently 94!!

Hi Kevin’s! That red on red Bel Air is a good one! I’m happy to say I quit that nasty smoking habit 50 years ago. 
However…my diecast addiction started about 35 years ago with these two and has grown to about 145 cars and trucks in 1/24 scale.

@perrone1 Tony, with those numbers and your life style I think you have a good ways to go; that is unless you get thrown off your John Deere grass blaster, doing wheelies out in the back 40.

I quite smoking 57 years ago. I cut back purchasing die cast when DM, TFM and WCPD stopped producing 1:24 models. I occasionally pickup a stray 1:24 and a few of the other scales, but for the most part I get my diecast fix each and every day when I look at my display and see all the latest offering right here on the D4C.