Cigarette-brands (if you happen to still smoke): what you having?
 

Is smoking the kind of thing you have to do with refined style (Silk Cut) or will Benson and Hedges do you?

Benson and hedges gold.

An elite ciggie

I forgot to include Silk Cut in the poll but yeah. I did used to smoke a bit of that back when I actually smoked tobacco regularly.

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these were the fags of choice as a kid

B. & H. is very high-tar but it’s okay. So long as you’re capable of smoking in moderation, which is what you want if you want to relatively preserve your health and lung capacity anyway. The problem is most people get hooked (with nicotine being more addictive than heroin).

when i was a smoker, i started on embassy gold that were 20p for 20 :laugh:

I moved on to lambert and butler, Marlboro and Winston, with the occasional gitanes, and finished with silk cut

I've cut right down, but i have around 5 Amber Leaf roll ups a day. I really can't stand manufactured fags. Just 1 gives me a headache.

I put lettuce in my baccy pouch to keep it moist. A 50g pouch lasts me 3 weeks or so.

Mayfair and Sovereign were what we had as kids, and to skin up.

I used to smoke Silk Cut and Carrolls (Irish brand) back in the day

Not smoked for years, and it makes me feel ill to think of inhaling smoke into my lungs :fist:

ex smokers are the worst, i can now smell a cigarette at 100 metres :laugh:

used to love Gitanes but they were strong

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for a bit of style

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Embassy number 1 was a very good smoke tbh

Remember the twin box of 10?

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Bupropion and nortriptyline are two antidepressants that help to moderate the urge to smoke but they’re unlikely to be prescribed just for that (and bupropion’s hard to get in the U.K./under the NHS).

I smoked Embassy Number 1

I used to smoke Camels and was always excited to go abroad because you could get the original yellow ones, for some reason UK shops only seem to do Camel Blue/Light

I often smoked Lucky Strikes at uni as well. Would sometimes get their click and roll ones before they became illegal. Also liked Marlboro Touch as they were cheaper and I often didn't want a full cigarette anyway

Haven't smoked now for over a year though. Never was a prolific smoker, would just have a pack every week or two

it was a good mid-mild fag - in Scotland most folk smoked no 6, Regal and JPS

10 Kensitus Club was 28p at the Spar when i started smoking. 2p for matches

Embassy really was the best actual fag for sure.

Yeah i used to buy occasionally when good tobacconists existed.

My mum always had a pack of Sobranie at Chrristmas.

they were quality


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Yeah she liked the cocktail ones same but multicolour papers.

oh you reminded me I used to smoke Rothmans as well

Gitanes were like camel dung :laugh:

Used to smoke St Moritz…now the occasional Silk cut purple…

It’s good when you can stick to moderate/occasional smoking. And Silk Cut’s always a good choice. It’ll see you through, whether you’re at the pub or trying to get through a 13-hour shift.

I was a Marlboro Reds kid from 15 - 24 (social only, I've only had one cigarette whilst sober in my life and it was horrible). So the most I've ever smoked is about 2 packs/week in particularly-social early Uni days. At 16 we used to get one pack of 20 between 4 or 5 of us on a Friday night, out the cigarette machine at the pub. Remember cigarette machines?? Also remember when pubs didn't give a **** that you were 16 :joker:.

My dad for all of his smoking life smoked B&H so I stole quite a few of those in my teens - but they were dog rough, that was a last resort.

No, I tell a lie.

Last resort was my mate's mum's "Club" that came in a blue pack. Actually disgusting IIRC ... they felt "thick and slimey", like smoking cooking oil?

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Yuck.

Not so sure about Club myself. Sounds truly disgusting.

Yes...only crave them if I'm really stressed (which is rare) or have a drink in my hand.
Its ridiculously expensive now too....

Same here. When I’m working long hours and I haven’t brought in CBD coffee (my limit otherwise, Costa/Caffe Nero bought or bog-standard coffee, is 2-3 cups a day, stop me feeling anxious/caffeine-overload jittery) I’ll often buy a pack of 20 and just smoke it throughout my shifts so that at least I’ve got a bit of a nicotine rush keeping me pumping along the way. I may or may not excuse myself in the pub to have one or two (and it doesn’t happen very often). Beyond that I hardly ever smoke just for the sake of smoking anymore. Even when I did 15 was my max., and usually more like 5-10 a day. I don’t think I’ve ever been truly addicted to nicotine or tobacco. It’s pretty-much always just been a habit I could take or leave.

And I only vape CBD (I like to do things in a relatively healthy way) so tobacco-vapes are off the table for me. If I want tobacco, I’d be more inclined to smoke actual cigarettes. And a pack of 20 can last me up to 2 weeks now. I don’t smoke enough anymore to be fussy about brands but when I did it tended to be Silk Cut or Lambert. Or the cheap Polish corner-shop kind, which could be anything (sometimes Richmond).

Nowadays I’m a little cautious and hesitant about smoking in public because you never know which gossiping eyes are watching you. I don’t smoke often now so if I’m spotted by someone who recognises me they might assume the wrong thing but at the end of the day everyone’s doing life for themselves first and foremost. It’s not so much about what other people think.

I think Richmond was my first cigarette, I used to go out of the house, and into a field and light up, thought I was quite the rebel

Still smoking a little, Cherie?

I remember being about 13 and writing a note in block capitals that was from my "Grandad" saying he was staying with us as he had broken his leg and could the shopkeeper please sell his granddaughter 20 fags as he was unable to get to the shops. :laugh: It bloody worked too - that note lasted me till I was almost 16 and received my NI Card in the post that most shops took as ID for being 16!!

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I think it was three months after the smoking ban that the age for buying cigarettes got raised from 16 to 18 so things were never going to be as strict back in the day about things like that to be fair. I still think it should’ve stayed 16 but that’s a different discussion altogether isn’t it.