Rick Blaine wrote:


They sold cigarettes in vending machines for 23¢. Put a quarter in and the
pack of smokes had two pennies on the side for your change. Free pack of
matches was dispensed also.

Not sure why the difference, but non-gumball candy machines in the US rarely
accepted or offered pennies...


Come to think of it, I don't think you could put pennies into those machines -
they just stocked them with pennies for change. Still don't know why it was cost
effective to build those machines for cigs and not for candy or soda though...