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Just replied in the electronic ciggie post and got me thinking about my days of smelling like an old ashtray, and the cigarettes I smoked in the late 60's 70's 80's etc. Must admit I tried many many brands in the name of coolness.:lol:

Cadet (five in a packet with 5 matches 5d in old money) handy for hiding at school.:rules:
Weights ( weird packet like folded paper)
Senior Service
Craven 'A'
Black Russian
Passing Cloud
Gauloises
Embassy
Regal (rough as old boots)
Ardath
Players Navey Cut ( for the upper classes :lol:)
Players No.6
Nelson
Dunhill
Winchester
Capstan full strength (would rip the phlem of your chest)
Dutch Shag (local tobacconist brew) took your breath away...literally

Cigars/cherroots
Villiger
SanToy ( Clint Eastwood style)
Doncella
Tom Thumb
Manakin
King Edward (small)

And many more I can't recall, glad I gave up though. I would imagine todays ciggies would be a tad milder than some on this list.:D

The waft of pipe tobacco still hits the sweet spot for me even after all these years....you know that Condor moment.:love:

Ahh the days when you couldn't see across the bar/lounge for smoke.


Name your favs.
 
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I remember throwing up when I tried "Consulate" :puke:
 
In the pub last night we reminisced about what we smoked as youngsters,top on everyone's list was Marlborough,closely followed by Old holburn roll-ups.

I remember pinching one of my grandfather's Park drive and throwing up for hours afterwards,never tried another.
 
My mother smoked "Guards"

My Grandad "Kensitas"

Both packs had some kind of gift coupon in them. Was quite common in the days of Green Shield Stamps.

I remember my Grandad must have destroyed a lung to grt enough coupons for a single speed metal body Black and Devker electric drill! We crossed the river to go to a collection "shop" in Old Street in London.

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Yeah Park drive I forgot those, quite small I recall three good drags and finished.:lol:

And those so called safety matches that igniting bits dropped off onto your lap when they lit up....scary.
 
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Mine was sobraine multi coloured ones lol. How cool was I at school:D
 
No 6
Sovereign (bit smaller than normal fags and thinner)
Number 1
B&H (Benny Hedgehogs)
and then on to Lambert & Butler before I gave up 12 years ago:-)

And rollies when I was skint!
And a few "herbal" ones from time to time:naughty:
 
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Nikon Man said:
Gauloises
Embassy
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phwoar...Disque Bleu...strong, but a nice acquired taste...a;so had a rather odd filter. Not a "foam" type like most had, but it was a really long folded up piece of filter material, proper odd.

Also used to smoke Embassy when I was younger...the smoother uncle of horrible Regals :)

Before I gave up some 7 years ago, I smoked roll-ups, but the last "premanufactured" sticks I smoked before that were Lucky Strikes...mmmmmmmmm
 
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My old man smoked Churchmans, and my mother smoked occaisonally (social smoker?) but I can't remember what cigarettes she preferred.

I've smoked since I was a teenager and I suppose I've gone through quite a few brands. I remember Balkan Sobranie and Sullivan Powell fondly, but they're long gone, and I usually smoked Camel filter and Chesterfields in South Africa. B & H now, and only three or four a day, but I can't quite persuade myself to give up completely. My wife has never smoked, but she doesn't nag.
 
MartynK said:
My old man smoked Churchmans, and my mother smoked occaisonally (social smoker?) but I can't remember what cigarettes she preferred.

I've smoked since I was a teenager and I suppose I've gone through quite a few brands. I remember Balkan Sobranie and Sullivan Powell fondly, but they're long gone, and I usually smoked Camel filter and Chesterfields in South Africa. B & H now, and only three or four a day, but I can't quite persuade myself to give up completely. My wife has never smoked, but she doesn't nag.
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You can still buy sobraine. Still as popular now as they ever were. £10 a box mind you.
 
I started off pinching a packet of my dads Dunhill International quickly moving on to mainly B&H, then Sovereign, with a mix of Lambert & Butler, Japanese Pig Shît (John Player Special), Embassy No 1s, superkings and golden Virginia rollups.

I always liked the smell of a roll up
 
pepi1967 said:
You can still buy sobraine. Still as popular now as they ever were. £10 a box mind you.
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I think you can still buy Black Russian and the coloured cocktail cigarettes, but not Balkan Sobranie? These were a Turkish blend.
 
Gauloises Disque Blue were cool when I was growing up in the mid-70s as were Gitanes.

Untipped, oval Passing Clouds in their pink packet were STRONG! ... and nearly as expensive as Black Russian Sobranie IIRC.

Only a year or so ago, I looked down and saw a discarded fag packet in the gutter that instantly took me back forty years. It was the red white and gold "John Player Gold Leaf" that was Lotus' sponsorship livery before the black and gold JPS. I was such a saddo that I picked it up and discovered from the Arabic script that it's still a popular brand in the Gulf, in Pakistan and Bangladesh.


Nikon Man said:
The waft of pipe tobacco still hits the sweet spot for me even after all these years....you know that Condor moment.:love:
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I've never been a cigarette smoker. I used to smoke perhaps twenty or thirty ... a year! But for some reason, the women I've loved and lived with have been heavy smokers :thinking: :nuts: :love: In the last few years though, I have taken to smoking a pipe. I can do it now that I'm old and grey and bald!

If you have to smoke, it's the nicest way of doing it with the best flavours and rituals and routines and a mythology behind it and you've viewed as an anachronistic social oddity not [just] a nasty outcast ;)

Is anyone else here in the brotherhood of the briar? I might start a thread about it.
 
Yves Geza said:
Gauloises Disque Blue were cool when I was growing up in the mid-70s as were Gitanes.

Untipped, oval Passing Clouds in their pink packet were STRONG! ... and nearly as expensive as Black Russian Sobranie IIRC.

Only a year or so ago, I looked down and saw a discarded fag packet in the gutter that instantly took me back forty years. It was the red white and gold "John Player Gold Leaf" that was Lotus' sponsorship livery before the black and gold JPS. I was such a saddo that I picked it up and discovered from the Arabic script that it's still a popular brand in the Gulf, in Pakistan and Bangladesh.


I've never been a cigarette smoker. I used to smoke perhaps twenty or thirty ... a year! But for some reason, the women I've loved and lived with have been heavy smokers :thinking: :nuts: :love: In the last few years though, I have taken to smoking a pipe. I can do it now that I'm old and grey and bald!

If you have to smoke, it's the nicest way of doing it with the best flavours and rituals and routines and a mythology behind it and you've viewed as an anachronistic social oddity not [just] a nasty outcast ;)

Is anyone else here in the brotherhood of the briar? I might start a thread about it.
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When I smoke I smoke cigars and agree its more of a pleasure and ritual than just smoking for the need of it.
 
Embassy Regal, Players No.6 and those long thin filtered cigarillo type things I forget the name of, roll ups towards the end too. I stopped over thirty years ago now but I still find my nose following a strand of smoke, particularly pipe smoke which just goes to prove that an addiction cannot be cured, only handled.
 
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… I still find my nose following a strand of smoke, particularly pipe smoke which just goes to prove that an addiction cannot be cured, only handled.
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I disagree. Now I've given up I find the smell of cigarette smoke (even rollups, which I loved the smell of) disgusting.
 
steelneil said:
I disagree. Now I've given up I find the smell of cigarette smoke (even rollups, which I loved the smell of) disgusting.
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Can I ask how long you have been a non smoker.
 
My grandad was a pipe smoker of some note owning several racks of pipes and smoking tools of all sorts. Cannot really remember him without a pipe hanging from his mouth, I watched in amazement at the continual clouds of smoke filling the room. Vividly recall one large pipe that was big enough to fit half a pouch of tobacco in.:lol:

He lived into his 90's and a heavy drinker!

Rarely see anyone with a pipe these days. 'E' ciggies somehow don't look right. But preferable to bloody chewing gum all over the place.:lol:
 
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haaaa...the good old days, when smoking was good for you :),in the mornings we would light up a Sovereign, waiting for a school bus...I smoked for 26 years
but packed it all in, when the price started hiking up....smoke free for about 10 years now, i still get the urge now and again, but would never go back...to bloody expensive...
my gran smoked from the age of thirteen ,died when she was in her late 80s..
laughed at the doctors when they said it was no good for her health...she died of a non smoking illness , and smoked the very best, capstan full-strength
woodbines and senior service,and roll-ups last going off...
in fact i think she would have smoked rolled up cardboard if she ran out :lol:
god bless her.....
 
I smoked my first cigarette when I was nine and gave up 16 years later.

My nan smoked forever and was advised by the doctor to give up when she went into her 80's. She does shortly after that.
 
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