# The Foulest Possible Cigarettes **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 4, 2004, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-foulest-possible-cigarettes/227422 "2004-02-04T02:31:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![yBeayf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/e274bd/32.png) [@yBeayf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yBeayf)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2004, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-foulest-possible-cigarettes/227422/21 "2004-02-04T22:00:15Z")
> [@](#): > > From Holland: Drum rolling tobacco Are you kidding? That stuff is some of the best damn tobacco I ever smoked. It was my regular smoking substance at one point. The worst smokes I ever had were some obscure brand I picked up at Cigarettes Cheaper. I don’t remember their name, but they had an Indian on the front of the box (and they weren’t American Spirits). I think smoking poison ivy would have been less harsh on my respiratory system. ---
**Author:** ![\_xiao\_wenti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/_/b782af/32.png) [@\_xiao\_wenti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/_xiao_wenti)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2004, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-foulest-possible-cigarettes/227422/22 "2004-02-04T22:20:43Z")
Most third world (latin american) smokes are pretty nasty. I was a Pall Mall unfiltered smoker when I was travelling. When I lived in Ecuador, I smoked some variant of viceroys – unfiltered and very tary. The best unfiltereds I found in Bolivia and I do not recall the name. There was another Noxious Belizian unfiltered. They are all probably illegal to import into the US ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2004, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-foulest-possible-cigarettes/227422/23 "2004-02-04T22:38:06Z")
Russian _Laikas_ were foul when I smoked them in 1984. Chinese _Double Happiness_ nearly made me puke. I once had a small green insect jump out of an Indian _bidi_ while I was smoking it. But the absolute worst I ever had were knock-off imitation _Marlboro Lights_ I bought off a dude in the street in Hong Kong. Bleeeeaugh. ---
**Author:** ![fishbicycle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aeb1de/32.png) [@fishbicycle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fishbicycle)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2004, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-foulest-possible-cigarettes/227422/24 "2004-02-04T22:42:51Z")
> [@yBeayf](#): > > Are you kidding? That stuff is some of the best damn tobacco I ever smoked. It was my regular smoking substance at one point. Friendly aside here: if you go back and read my post, it says that I was naming six kinds of tobacco that _I personally would not smoke again_ because I didn’t like them. I didn’t say that you couldn’t, or shouldn’t like Drum. So, no, I was not kidding. From the inside of an Export A package: “a chacun a son gout.” ---
**Author:** ![yBeayf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/e274bd/32.png) [@yBeayf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yBeayf)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2004, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-foulest-possible-cigarettes/227422/25 "2004-02-05T17:05:25Z")
> [@](#): > > Friendly aside here: if you go back and read my post, it says that I was naming six kinds of tobacco that I personally would not smoke again because I didn’t like them. I didn’t say that you couldn’t, or shouldn’t like Drum. So, no, I was not kidding. Ah. Apologies for my misreading. I can see how many people wouldn’t like Drum, as it is rather… potent, to say the least. ---
**Author:** ![maleinblack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e5b9ba/32.png) [@maleinblack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/maleinblack)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2004, 11:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-foulest-possible-cigarettes/227422/26 "2004-02-06T11:32:26Z")
> [@Meta-Gumble](#): > > [hijack]Has anyone else smoked these? Tell me i’m not the only dumb-ass here…[/hijack] I am from India and I must say that there are countless number of beedi smokers here.(I am not one of them though).Although we dont get the same kind as you people.IIRC the beedis sold abroad are the export kind and not for domestic sales.The local ones are smaller,stronger,unflavored and smell vile. I must also add that beedi smokers are usually from the poorer sections because a bundle of 20 beedis costs like 10 cents. ---
**Author:** ![UselessGit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/74df32/32.png) [@UselessGit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UselessGit)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2004, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-foulest-possible-cigarettes/227422/27 "2004-02-06T11:52:13Z")
I worked on the docks for a couple of years and during that time I bought cigarettes and vodka from Russian fishermen. There I discovered **Golden American** - \*“Made in Western Europe”,\*which I believe means somewhere in western Czech (sp?) republic. To this day my lungs twitch with disgust and my mind recoils in horror at the mere remembrance of my encounter with those dark, foul tasting sticks - made with a fair understanding of eastern-European nicotine addiction and a lot of hatred for Mankind. The worst cigarettes I have ever known, and I’ve tried a lot of strange tobacco in my time. ---
**Author:** ![11811](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/1/9d8465/32.png) [@11811](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/11811)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2004, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-foulest-possible-cigarettes/227422/28 "2004-02-06T12:30:42Z")
At one time smoked something from India called “bidis.” They were wrapped in a leaf and tied, and they were something other than tobacco. Or you could go to Spain and smoke Fortuna’s Black Tobacco cigarettes or Bisontes Negros. That black tobacco that the Euros love is like smoking rusty razor blades. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![paulberserker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c4cdca/32.png) [@paulberserker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/paulberserker)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2004, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-foulest-possible-cigarettes/227422/29 "2004-02-06T15:21:10Z")
Chinese Marlboro red. fuck, it was like smoking 8 cigs at once. and these things called Jet someone grabbed me from Jamaica. no tar or nicotine markings on them, really dark baccy inside. Like smoking camel shit rolled in a bus ticket. i tried for 3 tabs, and then threw them away. bleeuggh. Chesterfields are lungbursters too. i hate those and got saddled with 400 to get shut of. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-foulest-possible-cigarettes/227422.md?page=1)