My aunt used to smoke those. I remember once when her boyfriend was out of his usual smokes, she gave him one and he giggled as if smoking a cigarette with bit of a floral pattern on the paper would make him gay or something.
Bull Durham
Old Gold
Maverick
Salem
Doral
Oasis
Newport
Max
Virginia Slims
Eve
Capri
Lark
Dunhill
Viceroy
Tareton
Most of these are still available at the local convenience market. Salem, Newport and Virginia Slims are actually still fairly popular brands. I see the ads for Maverick and Doral at the discount tobacco place all of the time and occasionally buy a pack of Dunhills there. They also carry Capri and Viceroy.
I haven’t seen the rest for a while though.
You’re Canadian, as I recall. Yes, they were indeed Black Cats, which (if memory serves) came in a blue or gold pack, depending on whether they were plain- or filter-tipped. An English brand originally, Black Cats were made in Canada by Rock City Tobacco, which still makes Number 7 cigarettes. Interestingly, even though Black Cat cigarettes haven’t been made in ages, the picture of its black cat survived on packages of Number 7s until rather recently.
Other rare or no-longer-existent popular Canadian brands would include Belvedere, Mark Ten, and Sportsman.
Spud was the first menthol cigarette, invented by accident in 1924 when Spud Hughes, a young asthma sufferer, stored cigs in a can of menthol crystals and found they gave a cooling and pleasant smoke. He named the brand after himself, but it stuck after he sold the patent.
Despite the incongruous potatoey moniker, Spuds were a hit, inspiring Brown & Williamson to put Kools on the market in 1932. Spuds were sold till 1963.
I used to smoke Vantage, More Lights, Merit, and GPCs. Woo-hoo! Been off 'em since May 2009! Anybody remember “Ritz”, designed by YSL back in the mid-80s? I remember they had a special “satin” filter. I think those were the first ones I started smoking. (had to look cool, LOL).
My mother smoked Lucky Strike and my father smoked Salem.
Wow. I’d really like to pick up a pack of True Blue 100s for my mom. She smoked before she got pregnant with me, quit cold turkey at that point, and was smoke-free till my dad died when I was 28. She started smoking again in her grief, and she’s been talking about wanting to quit again ever since. I’d kinda like to get her a pack of the kind that she and dad used to smoke if she will try to make it the last cigs she’ll ever smoke, however long it takes her to get to that point.
NETA sorry for the regurgitation of my previous post. I know I’d posted, but forgot what I’d said.
It’s a lyric from a Stone’s song, I forget which one. Nice follow up. I see others have added lyrics. It’s “You can’t always get what you want.” Like discontinued cigarettes.
Nobody in my family has ever smoked. My parents were (are) really against it. This said, mom would get Women’s Day magazines all the time. I remember how glamourous the women looked: Virginia Slims ( I’d spend so much time looking at the catalog of cool things), Capri (she’s going to Capri and she’s never coming back!) and Eve. I recall Joe Camel* well too but he was not remotely as cool as the women.
All of that advertising “worked” on me in that I remember the products but never used.
Until this thread I never understood the blackeye ads.As a little kid it never occurred to me it was supposed to be a bruised eye. To me it was like the black lines football players used.
*I also recall a beer (pabst?)that had a huge black and white bear as a mascot.
Sure they are. I went to buy milk this morning, and there were several brands of Camels in the rack with everything else.
–SMM
The joke when I was growing up was that “LSMFT” stood for “Loose Straps Mean Flappy Tits”
I see young people smoking Lucky Strikes all the time at Rockabilly shows. It is the only acceptable brand to roll up into a white t-shirt sleeve.
Benson and Hedges used to have about 20 different varieties - don’t know if they still do. I would get cigs for my boss since I was always bumming and ordering them was practically a memory exercise - B&H light menthol 100’s in the hard pack. If you couldn’t make all the way through without taking a breath, you knew you’d been smoking too much.
This probably doesn’t count, but I also used to like Drum tobacco, but I think they’re still around and still popular with the art f*g/douche bag crowd.
I remember when I was a boy my dad smoked Cameo. While he still smokes, I don’t see him with a cigarette much any more (either he doesn’t smoke nearly as often, or it may be because I don’t live at home any more) but I haven’t seen them in stores for quite a while (about the time I left home). I assumed that they went out of business and he’s smoking something else, but Google led me to Cameo’s entry on Cigarettespedia (:eek:. Yes, Virginia (Slims), there’s a Wiki for everything) telling me that they are still produced for the Canadian (and S. African) market.
(I have vivid memories of when I was around 12 years old helping my dad roll his cigarettes. I had great fun with it too! :eek: (and no, I have never had a cigarette in my life).
That would be Hamm’s, the bear refreshing. Er, beer.
Triumphs. They were this odd non-tobacco (I think) cigarette back in the early 70s that I sort of like. Tried them first because I was driving a TR4-A at the time and thought the pack looked cool on the dash. Most people said they would rather smoke cabbage leaves that had been boiled and then dried but my memory says they weren’t that bad.
I smoke Picayunes in High School. The guy who married my cousin used to carry them around when someone wanted to bum a smoke off him. He had no takers.
I rolled Bugler for a while, seems like I still see cans of it in the store.
Sobraine Black Russians apparently are no longer exported to the USA.
Silk Cut Red, my dad was the only person I ever met who smoked them, then they killed him so he had to quit.