Since it’s the end of summer and I’m taking my last sips of alcohol for what will probably be a while, I’m smoking a bit more than usual.
My curiosity sprang up and now I ask.
I smoke Marlboro 27 (the Goddess in her infinite wisdom found my ideal cig in such a name…7-2=5) and don’t like much else now. I don’t smoke Dope, but what do Dopers smoke? Mayhaps we can get a little more incisive…why did you choose your brand?
I’ve never smoked cigarettes, and I stopped smoking altogether a couple of months ago… 
Aww…well, good for you. Haven’t touched the Gonj for a while myself. It’s inferior to beer in my own opinion. But that argument could go on forever.
I smoke Rothman’s, because I acquired the habit of seasoning my weed from an old housemate, years back, and he smoked Rothman’s. They taste strongly of ass.
I cut way down on the weed – to practically nil, but have retained the habit of smoking baccy as an excuse to go for period walks.
The last ten packs or so have each been my “last.”
Maybe I should just start smoking weed again. It’s cheaper and doesn’t stink up my clothes so. I do like the stimulant effect of nicotine, though, especially when I’m working.
I smoke Camel Lights. I haven’t smoked weed for a long time. I wish I could give up cigarettes that easily!
I smoke whatever I can get a hold of. Probably way too much. As for cigarettes, I don’t really smoke them, but if I do, my preference is Gauloises. I smoked them for the first time when I was in Paris a few years back and liked them. Now, my friend smokes them, so I might bum one occasionally off him. If I’m buying my own, I will most likely choose rolling tobacco - probably the white Drum. No good reason for it - a friend I used to hang out with smoked that so when I needed to buy some that’s what I chose and will most likely choose it next time I buy some if it’s an option, but I have no strong preferences one way or the other.
God, me too. I smoke Marlboro Lights 100s (in the box, if you please). The same since I so foolishly started when I was 16. ::cough hack spit:: I wish I had known how addictive tobacco is.
I’m apparently one of the few people on earth who has never smoked anything. Not even once.
I quit smoking two years ago, but I started in 1983 when I was about a month shy of my 15th birthday. My first brand was Vantage, because I liked the look of the pack and the filters were interesting. After about 18 months, I switched to Camel Filters, because I liked the taste better. When Camel Wides were introduced in around 1992, I switched to those and stuck there for 11 years.
Camel Wides were a pain in the ass, but they tasted so much better than any other cig, I stubbornly refused to smoke anything else. The reason they were a pain in the ass is that the packs are wider than a standard pack, so they don’t fit in those plastic cigarette racks that most Retailers have. With at least 11 different varieties of Camels on the market, many Retailers chose not to carry them at all. Eventually I found most of the stores near home and work that did carry them, and patronized them frequently.
Of course, occasionally I would be in unfamiliar territory, needing smokes, and then the fun would begin. I would walk into a store.
“Pack of Camel Wides, please.” They would rummage around and come up with a pack of Camel Lights. “No, Wides. Wides.” They would rummage around some more. No dice. So I would leave and go down the road to the next store I could find. Sometimes, it would take me four tries before I finally hit paydirt.
When I finally quit, I had been smoking about 15 a day.
I originally started smoking because I was hanging out with this older kid (he was, like, 15!) and he was really cool, and he smoked, so I started. I knew full well the dangers, having pestered my mother, father and grandparents for years and years to stop. I even did a school science project on the effects of cigarette smoke on mice in 6th grade. But 1983 was my nihilistic period, and I decided I didn’t give a crap if I lived a long time or not.
Basic UL 100s (also box, if you please). They’re basically the same as Marboros, made by same company. Basics though are a bit stronger than Marlboros. For example, I am perfectly happy with the Basic ULs, but a Marlboro UL just makes me want to have another.
As for the other…I always keep a steady supply…very good stuff too. As I’ve gotten older I go for quality over quantity and that makes for an expensive vice. I should mention too, that I’m a 15-year recovering alkie, so I can’t drink. What a shame too since there have been such YUMMY sounding drinks created over the last fifteen years. Gosh I hope this statement isn’t illegal.
Mods–please delete if inappropriate! No hard feelings!
Crap. It was 1982, a month shy of my 14th birthday, and 1982 was my nihilistic period. I think all that nicotine may have damaged my brain.
Benson & Hedges Gold. Full flavor. They never go on sale, but they’re tasty.
I haven’t touched the other stuff in about 15 years. I decided I could sit on the couch for four hours, be paranoid, and eat a pound of cheese all on my own.
As for Ciggies: I would smoke Silk Cut (when I could get them), otherwise I’d smoke Camel Special Lights. Mrs. Magill and I quit when she became pregnant with Fang.
Occasionally, my Father and I will indulge in a cigar. I like Macanudo (sp?) - five inches, and a little on the narrow side, if you please. My Father likes the Churchill size.
Also, I’ll sometimes stuff my pipe with a nice cherry/cavendish blend.
Drum rolling tobacco, the normal blue kind. It’s the only cigarette I consistently enjoy - if the company could just go bust it would make me want to give it all up a bit (excuses, excuses…) but while it’s still about and relatively cheap, I love it. Especially on the days I can breathe…
As for the other, despite paranoia and bouts of excessive inhibition, it improves my pool game dramatically.
Acapulco Gold Filters.
No, really, I smoke Roll Rich rolling tobacco. It’s the closest thing to Canadian tobacco I can find down here, and it’s ungodly cheap. The equivalent can that I pay $12.99 for in Florida costs $100 in Canada! I don’t know how anybody up there can afford to smoke anymore.
Me too on all counts, except the inhibition and pool game parts.
Mmm, Drum. Pure tobacco without all the wood chips and chemicals, and it’s so much cheaper than straight cigs. And although I am always happy to share, people rarely bum rollies.
About an ounce every two weeks of whatever is available. It varies from week to week, you rarely get the same bag twice.
I quit smoking tobacco[sup]*[/sup] 3 years ago, but it was Marlboro Lights, then Ultra Lights (The healthy Alternative!?!?!?)
let me just say that I am stunned, STUNNED, to find out that somebody with the name ‘bongmaster’ admits to smoking ounces of tobacco a week. I suppose those ‘For Tobacco Use Only’ stickers prohibit him from trying anything else.
*I still enjoy the inhalation of smoke a few times a year.
I feel the exact opposite–I rarely bother to drink, in fact. But yes, the argument could go on forever.
I smoke Marlboro Ultra Lights–not so much because I think they’re “healthier” or because I can’t handle the “harder” stuff, but because smoking UL’s rather than Lights or Mediums allows me to smoke more. At least, that’s what I fool myself into thinking.
I had decided I’d quit when I turned 30. Then I realized that my great 30th birthday present, a trip to Europe, will actually take place when I’m 30 and a half, so I think I’ll extend it to 31. I never thought, when I started, that I’d still be smoking at this age. Of course, when I started, I also thought I’d be married at 22 and a mother at 25. I have rarely been so wrong about anything. 
I don’t smoke cigarettes…except when I am very, very drunk and all my friends are standing outside in the smoking area, I’m lonely sitting inside the pub and it’s just too cold to stand outside without one. In which case I’ll bum a Marlboro Light off someone.
Marlboro Lights are what we use when we’re “rolling our own” at home too, although that’s been cut down from every day to a rare treat.