# I need to confess my current drug use **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 26, 2011, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-to-confess-my-current-drug-use/597703 "2011-09-26T21:37:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Capitaine\_Zombie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e95f7d/32.png) [@Capitaine\_Zombie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capitaine_Zombie)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2011, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-to-confess-my-current-drug-use/597703/1 "2011-09-26T21:37:22Z")
(no peeps, open the thread) Cigarettes. Yes, and Marlboros to add to the crime. The context is this: a few packs I’ve bought recently of Marlboro Reds (the normal regular Marl cig) have “Marlboro Mix” written on it. When you open the pack, three out of the twenty cigs are white filtered. And a small sign says that you can change the taste of those white filters cigs by pushing a small blue button on it. If you check the filter, there is such a thing. So, I try it, I lit one without pushing the thingy, it tastes differently than a normal one (oilier taste for a start). And, then I press (or at least have the feeling I did it right) the thing to check the supposed taste difference. Cant really say I noticed it. So, how does that fucking thing work? Are you supposed to press it before you light, or can you do it while smoking it? I also dont really understand it is a marketing plan to introduce a new flavor and plant regular packs with samples (well, paying samples). And if the taste-changer gizmo is just a temporary thing. And how it works exactly. I’ve looked a bit on the net with “white filter” or “Marlboro Mix” as search entries, but nothing apparently relevant showed up. What can you tell me about all of this (I’m in France so maybe it’s a local thing -like a market test - but I would tend to imagine it is not)? ---
**Author:** ![sitchensis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sitchensis/32/4892_2.png) [@sitchensis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sitchensis)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2011, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-to-confess-my-current-drug-use/597703/2 "2011-09-26T21:41:49Z")
The Camel menthol/non-menthols I tried had a little plastic bead inside the cigarette that was filled with menthol flavor. You physically had to squeeze the bead until it broke to get the flavor, not just press it like a button. I make it sound hard, it really wasn’t. The first one was weird because you didn’t know how much pressure was needed and you didn’t want to break the cigarette, after you had done it once, it was easy. ---
**Author:** ![Capitaine\_Zombie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e95f7d/32.png) [@Capitaine\_Zombie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capitaine_Zombie)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2011, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-to-confess-my-current-drug-use/597703/3 "2011-09-26T21:44:57Z")
> [@sitchensis](#): > > The Camel menthol/non-menthols I tried had a little plastic bead inside the cigarette that was filled with menthol flavor. You physically had to squeeze the bead until it broke to get the flavor, not just press it like a button. All right. So, it’s not a Marl thing and it’s a new gizmo used by all tobacco companies. Is it a regular feature in packs where you live or is it a way to introduce a new flavor to an audience ? ETA: Ok, you’re right you have to hear the thing break, which didnt happen with my test. ---
**Author:** ![sitchensis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sitchensis/32/4892_2.png) [@sitchensis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sitchensis)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2011, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-to-confess-my-current-drug-use/597703/4 "2011-09-26T21:50:31Z")
Sorry I really have no clue, it was just a guess if the Marbs would work the same. I think with the Camels it was just a short term marketing thing. ---
**Author:** ![Crazyhorse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crazyhorse/32/31_2.png) [@Crazyhorse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crazyhorse)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2011, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-to-confess-my-current-drug-use/597703/5 "2011-09-26T21:55:19Z")
I’m not sure this is the same cigarette but I found [this](http://tobaccoproducts.org/index.php/Marlboro_Kreteks/Marlboro_Mix_9)about the ‘Marlboro Mix 9’ cigarette. Who would have known - they’re good for you! > [@](#): > > The Marlboro Mix 9 is the strongest Marlboro currently on the market, packing 1.8 milligrams of nicotine and 30 milligrams of tar. That is comparable to other full-strength kreteks on sale in Indonesia, and contains twice as much tar and nicotine as regular Marlboros on sale elsewhere in the world. _Kreteks were invented in the late 19th century to ward off disease_ ---
**Author:** ![Capitaine\_Zombie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e95f7d/32.png) [@Capitaine\_Zombie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capitaine_Zombie)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2011, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-to-confess-my-current-drug-use/597703/6 "2011-09-26T22:02:22Z")
> [@Crazyhorse](#): > > I’m not sure this is the same cigarette but I found [this](http://tobaccoproducts.org/index.php/Marlboro_Kreteks/Marlboro_Mix_9)about the ‘Marlboro Mix 9’ cigarette. Who would have known - they’re good for you! Holy shit! now that I have tasted it properly. It’s strong! Yeah, I had dismissed the clove cig thing because it didnt remind me of what I had tasted (or thought I had tasted). But it is defintely a clove cig that I am smoking, and it is a real good, real strong flavour. First time I try cloves, and it’s defintely better than menthols. So that must answer my two questions: -filter taste switch: marketing thing to introduce a new flavour -Marlboro Mix nine: clove cigs Thx. I’ll think I’ll ask for a move to MPSIMS. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2011, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-to-confess-my-current-drug-use/597703/7 "2011-09-27T14:25:18Z")
> [@Capitaine\_Zombie](#): > > I’ll think I’ll ask for a move to MPSIMS. Moving at suggestion of OP. Colibri General Questions Moderator ---
**Author:** ![jasonh300](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/46a35a/32.png) [@jasonh300](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jasonh300)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2011, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-to-confess-my-current-drug-use/597703/8 "2011-09-27T15:26:37Z")
Flavor change cigarettes were introduced in the 70s as “Brighton Convertibles”. They had a capsule of menthol in the filter and you squeezed or bit down in the right place and they turned into a menthol. I’ve never seen these Marlboro Mix cigarettes, but the Camel Crush are all over the place.