What was your poison? Anybody sez Newport is OUT.

LSMFT

Tareyton for quite awhile before moving on to Marlboroughs.

Somewhere in my junk…

I’ve got a Benson and Hedges greatest hits cassette tape my Auntie gave me for Christmas one year….

No telling how many boxes she had to safe up for it…

Seems like it was mostly MoTown music on the tape.

W.T.F. ? I was like 10 at the time..

😂😂😂

Kwit cold turky 20 yrs ago Marlboros imagine the taste today 🤤

Kent

Never smoked.

My dad preferred L&M, he quit in 1992, lung and esophagus cancers. And his last years were very painful.

My dad was a Tareyton smoker. When I first started, it was Pall Mall or Camel. Cut'em in half, a couple of drags and I'm high as a kite.

I've smoked a million and quit 20 yrs ago. Lung exhales smell like babys breath. not as bad for you as ya think. now if i smoke a cuban my farts smell like cigars 2 days later. gotta tell you something

Marlboro red, Marlboro lights & Doral quit cold turkey 1999.

I remember my old man smoking Pall Malls. He said he picked up the habit in Korea, no idea what brand. It matters not, they killed him eventually. Not a pleasant way to go.

Started stealing Pall Mall and Camel non filtered off grandad when I was 14, by 16 it was a pack of camel lights a day, by 18 it was 2 packs of Marlboro reds a day, 28 yo, Jan. 1st 2000 I quit cold turkey and never smoked another.

Chesterfields -- ancient ones that came in the B4 pack.
RB

You got willpower how did you do it drinking, hell I had to quit drinking in order to quit the cig's only way I could. After about 6 months I started drinking again and it was easier never smoked another cig.

My dad smoked Winstons. He quit decades ago and is healthy in his 80's.

I smoke a pipe every now and then.

-John

My Dad started smoking in the Army in the mid-50's (USAE, W. Germany). He quit when I was about two years old when his doctor got his medical report mixed up with another patient and told him he was going to die from cigs. He lived until 1999.

My dad started on pall malls in the army in the early 60s. It seemed to be a thing back then.

I’d smoke a pall mall every once in awhile when i was about 10-11 yrs old

I liked the Pall Mall, among others, when I smoked. The red pack without filters.

Also Marlboro red, camel non-filter, Lucky Strike. Hand rolled Velvet, Bugler, and Prince Albert as a teenager (1970s).

As teenagers, we also used to smoke the Bull Durham tobacco in the little fabric pouch, with some papers included. I don't know if that is still around.

My dad quit cold turkey in the mid 80’s. The lung and liver tumors showed up in 2015. The Doc said it was smoking related, and it’s pretty common even 30 years after quitting. We just went past his 6 year anniversary on Valentines Day.

Marlboro, then Marlboro Lights, then was smoking Winston Lights when I quit. There was a gal who was sales a rep for the company that sold cigarettes to most of the stores in the area, and she found out I was a tobacco farmer. Anyway, she kept me in a good supply of coupons for cigarettes by the carton, and the last few years that I smoked, most of cigarettes I bought were about half price. When I quit, I gave away probably a hundred bucks of those coupons.

These were always in the grocery store, for like 10 cents or something.

We used to get them in C Rations. Four cigs as I recall. And no, I wasn't in the Army at the time, we just knew them GIs had a stash, By the time we got them I bet they were 20 years old, dried out, and nasty.

I started with a Marlboro as I recall, given to me by my older bro so he could smoke one and so that I couldn't tell. It was off to the races then.

Smoked whatever I could get my hands on, BullDurham, Tops, Bugler, cigs stolen from my mom or other kid's parent. Ride up to the door of the gas station "office", hop off the bicycle, throw a quarter in the machine and push buttons. No time to look as by this time Elvin was cussing us from the lift bays. Whatever came out got smoked by me and buds.

Forge a note from folks, take to little neighborhood store, get smokes.

Stop at liquor store on way to school, get some Hostess crap, one guy distract owner, someone else takes smokes from display on counter. Someone leave a window open in their car and smokes on the dashboard.............whoosh, they gone.

Smoked butts out of ashtrays when needed.

Horrible addiction and I firmly believe I was addicted before that first one given me by my brother. The old man always had a cigar going, or was chewing the stub, if he was awake. Mom always smoked when she wasn't pregnant "to lose weight" she'd gained having kids. In the closed up house, in the car with the windows rolled up in winter. Didn't matter, they were always smoking.

By the time I quit 36 years ago this coming April, I was smoking 2.5-3 packs a day on average and if it was long day, up around a campfire type of day, it was probably more. Mostly Marlboro red, then lights, then some sort of "low tar" brand I can't recall because I knew I was gonna smoke 2+ packs that day. Not to mention chewing leaf tobacco at times while smoking, doing snuff (not the Copenhagen type) , and enjoying the odd cigar.

Can't imagine smoking now, it was $2 a pack when I quit and it used up a bunch of my take home pay then.

Anyone smoking now that wants to quit, when you do just remember to not smoke the first one. My old man figured that out on his own and probably hadn't had a cigar (he smoked a 5 pack a day at least, White Owls, Phillies) for close to 20 yeas when he passed.

Don't smoke the first one, don't bum just one from your buddy, don't just take a dip from a friend. If you're seriously addicted it's almost guaranteed you'll start back up.

My dad preferred Chesterfields………one word coupons and he was cheap.

In the mid-fifties when I was about 5, all the adults in the family smoked. My maternal grandfather asked me one weekend if I wanted to try a smoke which was probably a Camel. I took one small puff and yuck! Never touched another. 🤢

I remember buying two bags for 15cents at the general store in Four Buttes MT in the late sixties. That stuff was powdery and you had to be on your rolling game.

Helluva testimony. Thank you, Sir.

Before cigarette machines could give change, a pack of cigarettes was 22 cents. So you put a quarter into the machine and you’d get the pack of cigarettes with three new, shiny pennies in the cellophane on the side of the pack.

Being in the healthcare industry for the past 23 years I have seen numerous people die. I've even seen several people die in combat. The ones who suffered the most were smokers dying in a hospital or their homes with family surrounding them. I can't imagine a more miserable way to die. My wife currently works in a cancer center. The oncologist is thankful for smokers. Their habits have helped pay for his extravagant house and luxurious cars. Smoke 'em if you got 'em!

Last i saw a cig machine was Shoney’s…

When I was a kid, a lot of my peers started smoking Tareytons and moved on to Marlboros and Winstons.

My high school sweetheart started smoking Salem 100s when she was 16. She died from metastasized lung cancer at age 42. She left a husband and 3 daughters, ages 12, 16, and 20. She got hooked and didn't have the strength or motivation to quit and it eventually killed her. Another one those reaping what you've sown situations.

You're welcome.

It was just life back then.

Maybe someone reads it and decides to stop before it gets as bad as it did for me. Heck, I even smoked nearly a pack a day in HS when I had chronic bronchitis.

+1.


I dont smoke..

Tried it as a teenager…

Came home smelling like cigs….
Got the “do what you want when you pay the bills” talk…

Nuff for me.

Was Maybe one of the few welders that dont smoke, dont chew, dont drink coffey.. 😂😂

Camels .Quit 50 years ago . When I was in the Navy they cost $1.05 a carton . 5 cents into the Boats party fund .

I'm no angel but glad I never took up smoking.
I watched my dad die at 58 as a 3 pack a day Marlboro red guy.

Both parents smoked Chesterfield Kings, dad quit just as soon as the Surgeon General's report came out did it old turkey. Smoking killed my mother at age 50 and her sister at 81. I never took up the habit as a kid one of my chores was to take out the trash. Last thing in the trash was the contents of the ash trays, dumping the trash all the cigarette ashes blew up in my face. Absolutely disgusting, it made me swear to never take up the habit.

Yep. Very dry. Didn't want to stay on the paper.

An old timer I worked for as a teen used to say a real cowboy could roll one while riding horseback, on a windy day. That would be a feat.

My brother killed himself with Pall Malls, after starting with Luckies and Camels. Don’t think he ever smoked a filter except the Viceroys he stole from our mother. I remember Luckies going for $2.10 a carton at the local Jumbo grocery about 1972. Such a deal….

I listen to old Bob & Ray radio shows regularly. One of their long-term sponsors was Chesterfields. Funny, but on other OTR shows, Chesterfields were touted as being easier on the voice by various actors and actresses.


Another brand that sponsored Bob & Ray was Fatimas, the ads read by Basil Rathbone.

Although I remember as a child considering what brand I would smoke someday, I never started. My father began in the army during the war, smoked for 63 years, then quit when my brother was diagnosed with cancer. He had some emphysema, but never developed the Big C, and lived to within less than an hour of turning 96.

Marlboro

My dad smoked for 60 years and it used to bug the hell out of mom. Mom would make dad stand out on the patio to smoke and dad HAD to close the door which meant that he had to stop complaining until he could be heard again. 😂. 2 years after mom passed dad got sick with the flu and found himself in the hospital for the first time in his life which was literally the 2nd time that dad ever saw a doctor. That hospital stay scared him and after he was discharged he never touched another cigarette. Dad and I had lunch together today and at almost 83 he’s the picture of health….a healthy man who misses mom something fierce. I told him again today how proud of him mom is…

I never could put hot smoke into my lungs and get pleasure out of it so I never smoked.

I’ve never smoked, with that said Pall Malls are a budget cigarette by todays prices. Pickup a woman smoking anything much less cheap Pall Malls and you are definitely getting laid!

Camel non-filters and once in a while Lucky Strikes. Rolled my own for a while, Bull Durham

Reds in a box.

There's a special place for the famous Marlborough Men.

Thats one reason to carry in the front shirt pocket....so the tobacco will be humidified from the body.

Back in the late 60's it was LSMFT or Pall Mall but preferred unfiltered Camels. In the 70's changed to Marlboro due to the perceived notion a filter was healthier. My Daddy did Tarleyton and L&M and emphysema got him in 1988 which was the year I quit. Doctors convinced me that Copenhagen was likely more harmful than cigarettes due to the extreme nicotine content so I quit that in 2011. Since addiction is a lifetime long fight...I finally gave in and now puff on a pipe and have a daily cigar. I don't inhale on purpose.

Looking back I kinda think those L&M etc. cigarettes were nothing but a sham to cover up inferior tobacco and perhaps even some toxic chemicals. Just tear the filter off one and try it!

Smoked a neighbor's dad's Pall Mall & Camel filterless. Didn't mind a bit. But always preferred Marlboro reds and then later, whites.

i started smoking when i was 12yo. it got to be habit when i was 16yo. it was Winston Lights till i got to 27 or 28yo. then it was Marlboro Reds till i was 39yo. it's been 12 years since i fired it up, ok, i had a stroke and i quit smoking and drinking. at the time, it was like $5 a pack. now, i don't know, $8 or $10 a pack? no thank you!!!!

Quit in 1970. Tried em all. Mostly Marlboro or Kent.

Hate to tell you guys but there is a special place for all of us. Some just a little sooner for some than others. Quit smoking 30 years ago but every once in a while an urge comes over for a cigarette. I don’t do it but the thought is real. Edk

Well, this post certainly helps explains your ramblings in the Ukraine thread.

ftw,

At your age, you might as well go ahead and indulge!

You get them doctored up in the 'hood with the angel dust?

Yeah, that makes sense.

My Dad smoked Pall Mall until he was 41, when he died of cancer. Still remember riding to Domino’s, our neighborhood grocery store, and buying Pall Mall’s for him.

Marlboro for me on and off until I was 50. Have not smoked in nearly 12 years.

Malboros, then to Camel filters, quit 40 years ago. Couldnt smoke today, BUT, still love the smell of a fired up Camel.