Cigarettes
- Mr Beardsley
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My first smoke was around the age of 15 or 16 and was a Winston red stolen from my mom. A friend at the time would steal chesterfields from his mom and we'd smoke those. Once I discovered that I could buy my own from the liquor store down the street i was hooked on Camel filters with the occasional pack of non-filter tossed in for variety. Worked through about every brand I could get over the next 22 years and stayed with menthols the longest. Kool, camel crush, pall mall, didn't matter. Whatever I could afford. I quit smoking but never gave up nicotine. I enjoy her friendship too much to give her up
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I quit smoking 5 years ago, but i have to break the ice, and admit that i do inhale some pipe tobacco not all. I had to give Dark Birdseye a rest, because after smoking that for weeks on end, at the end of the binge i was inhaling every puff. It tasted just like Drum, which i loved and was to expensive. I still inhale Haunted Bookshop, now and again, especially the first few puffs. Any Virginia or Burley, i take a few inhales here and there, but never with Lat Blends.
I was a Marlboro Red smoker for 20 years, but my favorite treat smokes, were Kent Kings.
If i was stuffing tubes today, i would roll Dark Birdseye every time
I was a Marlboro Red smoker for 20 years, but my favorite treat smokes, were Kent Kings.
If i was stuffing tubes today, i would roll Dark Birdseye every time
No it's absolutely awful as a cigarette. Weird because on paper it should work, but it's very harsh and has a strong impact on respiratory health, moreso than any cigarette I ever smoked. I bought a pound of it for cigarettes based on past experience with all D&R tobacco, and I had to mix it with other D&R blends in small quantities to use it up. It was that or the trash, it really was unsmokable as a cigarette.Wooda wrote: ↑Sun Apr 28, 2019 6:47 amI have to ask, does picayune make a good cig?sisyphus wrote: ↑Sun Apr 28, 2019 6:23 am no commercial cigarette is worth smoking. The plastic papers are a dealbreaker, and the only cigarette that still tastes like it used to is Luckys.
Never fear, get a Top-o-matic and buy Daughters & Ryan tobacco. Many excellent cigarette tobaccos that do not contain the weird additives that commercial cigarettes do. Better than any commercial cigarette ever was, and $20/lb. I also find that smoking D&R cigarettes does not impact my respiratory health even close to how rough I feel when I smoke commercial cigarettes. I don't wake up and hack in the morning like I used to smoking D&R. Until I give them up again that's all I'll smoke.
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Yeah they are good, but they have the plastic paper and their filters are super dense and they all have a very, very stiff draw.Kevin Keith wrote: ↑Sun Apr 28, 2019 7:44 amAmerican Spirit makes cigarettes with perique...roll your own pouches too. So I'll say it makes good cigarettes.Wooda wrote: ↑Sun Apr 28, 2019 6:47 amI have to ask, does picayune make a good cig?sisyphus wrote: ↑Sun Apr 28, 2019 6:23 am no commercial cigarette is worth smoking. The plastic papers are a dealbreaker, and the only cigarette that still tastes like it used to is Luckys.
Never fear, get a Top-o-matic and buy Daughters & Ryan tobacco. Many excellent cigarette tobaccos that do not contain the weird additives that commercial cigarettes do. Better than any commercial cigarette ever was, and $20/lb. I also find that smoking D&R cigarettes does not impact my respiratory health even close to how rough I feel when I smoke commercial cigarettes. I don't wake up and hack in the morning like I used to smoking D&R. Until I give them up again that's all I'll smoke.
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FWIW the very best cigarette I ever had was GH Kendal Dark, but it's very stout and you can't smoke them all day. More of an after dinner cigarette, but man is it tasty.
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My mother used to smoke Kool's too in soft pack, she was a pack a day with her fancy case. For a few years prior up until she passed my father would buy cartons online by the case. To make a long story short, the Taxman hit him with a bill for 5k. Turns out the guy who was selling them got audited and they came knocking.Kevin Keith wrote: ↑Sun Apr 28, 2019 5:51 am I liked smoking cigarettes. Of course I inhaled. I don't inhale any smoke anymore, so no more cigarettes for me. I guess I could smoke them like a cigar or pipe but that just doesn't feel right to me. Ya gots to get that sweet, sweet smoke deep down to get a satisfying cigarette smoke. At least I do. I liked Lucky Strike and Pall Mall for unfiltered. Camels were ok, but not as good. I liked a couple of menthols later on, they might have been my favorites. Kool Filter Kings were the best. And they had a nice clean, white pack I liked. Nowadays it's some green looking pack that I hate. I bet the cigarettes are different too. I do not like the change...any change really, but you got to adapt, right? And...you can't find a soft pack to save your life.
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- Kevin Keith
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Yikes!Bruyere_Royale wrote: ↑Sun Apr 28, 2019 7:57 pmMy mother used to smoke Kool's too in soft pack, she was a pack a day with her fancy case. For a few years prior up until she passed my father would buy cartons online by the case. To make a long story short, the Taxman hit him with a bill for 5k. Turns out the guy who was selling them got audited and they came knocking.Kevin Keith wrote: ↑Sun Apr 28, 2019 5:51 am I liked smoking cigarettes. Of course I inhaled. I don't inhale any smoke anymore, so no more cigarettes for me. I guess I could smoke them like a cigar or pipe but that just doesn't feel right to me. Ya gots to get that sweet, sweet smoke deep down to get a satisfying cigarette smoke. At least I do. I liked Lucky Strike and Pall Mall for unfiltered. Camels were ok, but not as good. I liked a couple of menthols later on, they might have been my favorites. Kool Filter Kings were the best. And they had a nice clean, white pack I liked. Nowadays it's some green looking pack that I hate. I bet the cigarettes are different too. I do not like the change...any change really, but you got to adapt, right? And...you can't find a soft pack to save your life.
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Smoked Marlboro red for a few decades.
Now if I have a cig it’s one I make.
I still make em for the wife.
The best I have found is D&R two timer mixed 50/50 with Penhooker in a zen full flavor tube.
My my my what a tasty smoke.
Added bonus is they come out to 1.13 a pack
Now if I have a cig it’s one I make.
I still make em for the wife.
The best I have found is D&R two timer mixed 50/50 with Penhooker in a zen full flavor tube.
My my my what a tasty smoke.
Added bonus is they come out to 1.13 a pack
- Preacher1611
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I haven't smoked in more years than I can remember... Though in 2016, January to be exact, I smoked a pack of Camel regulars; but that's a tale for another time perhaps. Anyway, I started smoking when I was 18, over 20 years ago now! Pall Mall unfiltered were the first cigarettes I ever bought, $2 a pack. Smoked Camels for awhile, Turkish Royal was my preferred, but Pall Mall regulars, filtered or not, was my favorite cig. I did like Nat Shermans as well and probably still would. My all time favorite cigarette is something that I can no longer recall the name of... these things were almost $10 a pack back in the late '90's! The only thing I can remember other than the price was that they were German and amazing.
- Houtenziel
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Probably Botschafter. Those were some good smokes.Preacher1611 wrote: ↑Mon Apr 29, 2019 10:49 am I haven't smoked in more years than I can remember... Though in 2016, January to be exact, I smoked a pack of Camel regulars; but that's a tale for another time perhaps. Anyway, I started smoking when I was 18, over 20 years ago now! Pall Mall unfiltered were the first cigarettes I ever bought, $2 a pack. Smoked Camels for awhile, Turkish Royal was my preferred, but Pall Mall regulars, filtered or not, was my favorite cig. I did like Nat Shermans as well and probably still would. My all time favorite cigarette is something that I can no longer recall the name of... these things were almost $10 a pack back in the late '90's! The only thing I can remember other than the price was that they were German and amazing.
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