# Your cigarette brand? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 11, 2010, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-cigarette-brand/560365 "2010-11-11T22:40:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![drastic\_quench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e36b37/32.png) [@drastic\_quench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drastic_quench)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2010, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-cigarette-brand/560365/21 "2010-11-12T03:36:13Z")
> [@DCnDC](#): > > Apologies for not being able to include anyone’s specific brand. I created the list off the top of my head; while I certainly could have rattled off dozens of other brands, I don’t believe many of them would get much recognition from the masses as opposed to the major brands I was able to recall. No shout out for Dunhills!? American Spirit black box are pretty tasty. They’ve got real [perique](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perique). I smoke tobacco pipes almost exclusively, but I’m really into blends that contain perique, so it’s an easy transition if I ever get a hankering for cig - which isn’t often. Being a pipe smoker, I like \*not \*inhaling. The first cigs I bought were Lucky Strikes - out of the WWII nostalgia/ tough guy factor. Not bad at all. Cigarettes just weren’t for me though. I’ve only smoked maybe three pack total in my life. They weren’t addictive enough apparently, but i like to try things just to see what they’re all about. ---
**Author:** ![MadTheSwine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MadTheSwine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadTheSwine)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2010, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-cigarette-brand/560365/22 "2010-11-12T04:18:58Z")
Pall Mall,nice flavor and last much longer than other smokes. ---
**Author:** ![Panurge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/fbc32d/32.png) [@Panurge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Panurge)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2010, 8:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-cigarette-brand/560365/23 "2010-11-12T08:39:43Z")
Hand rolled with fine-cut dark Dutch or Danish tobaccos. Filter cigs have no flavor, IMO. ---
**Author:** ![HazelNutCoffee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ac91a4/32.png) [@HazelNutCoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HazelNutCoffee)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2010, 9:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-cigarette-brand/560365/24 "2010-11-12T09:31:06Z")
Dunhills for me at present, but I started out smoking Malboro lights and for a while, Camel #9s (or whatever those pink ones were called). Dunhills are $2.50 a pack here, but when I was in Chicago they were $10, which is why I switched to Camels. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2010, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-cigarette-brand/560365/25 "2010-11-12T13:13:04Z")
> [@drastic\_quench](#): > > No shout out for Dunhills!? They’re on there. ---
**Author:** ![Student\_Driver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3da27b/32.png) [@Student\_Driver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Student_Driver)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2010, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-cigarette-brand/560365/26 "2010-11-12T13:51:08Z")
I needed the ability to select more than one option. I smoked three types regularly when I was a smoker; Djarum kreteks, Newports (preferring the more mentholated offshoot Newport Ice when it was available ~ 1994), and Lucky Strike unfiltereds. I answered Newports; I smoked a pack of Newports a day, a pack of Luckys every two days or so, and a pack of Djarums every three or four days. So… yeah. Smoke-free for 12 years now. ---
**Author:** ![Bill\_Door](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/50afbb/32.png) [@Bill\_Door](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bill_Door)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2010, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-cigarette-brand/560365/27 "2010-11-12T13:53:18Z")
Chesterfield Kings, back in the day. I haven’t smoked since the mid-seventies. I’ve almost stopped dreaming about it. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2010, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-cigarette-brand/560365/28 "2010-11-12T14:03:38Z")
I don’t smoke tobacco, but Marlboro is my brand. Years ago I was in a bar and women came in offering free packs of cigs to anyone willing to fill out a survey. I was with a friend who smoked Marlboros, and she asked me to scam a pack for her. I filled out the survey and she got her freebies. Now, years later, I still get all kinds of coupons in the mail from them and I just give them away. ---
**Author:** ![Lo-Slung\_Denim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f6c823/32.png) [@Lo-Slung\_Denim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lo-Slung_Denim)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2010, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-cigarette-brand/560365/29 "2010-11-12T14:22:47Z")
Camel Lights. In an emergency, Marlboro Lights. Pathetically, we are supposed to call them Camel Blue, as cigarette companies are no longer allowed to refer to any of their products as ‘light’, but I can’t get my head around it. I do quite like a Dunhill or a Lucky Strike, when the mood takes me. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2010, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-cigarette-brand/560365/30 "2010-11-12T15:09:25Z")
I smoked Silk Cut (when I could get them). Otherwise I was a Winston man. ---
**Author:** ![Paintcharge](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/paintcharge/32/7946_2.png) [@Paintcharge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paintcharge)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2010, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-cigarette-brand/560365/31 "2010-11-12T15:19:07Z")
Ex-smoker here, four months yay me! Used to smoke Camel lights until New York put the ridiculous tax on smokes. Then switched to rolling. I always had a problem with American Spirits breaking at the filter-cig connection when ashing. ---
**Author:** ![Nars\_Glinley](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nars_glinley/32/8177_2.png) [@Nars\_Glinley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nars_Glinley)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2010, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-cigarette-brand/560365/32 "2010-11-12T15:40:21Z")
I haven’t smoked in 25 years, but when I did, my brand was Marlboro Menthols. After getting used to menthols, everything else just tasted like dirt. ---
**Author:** ![delphica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9a140/32.png) [@delphica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/delphica)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2010, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-cigarette-brand/560365/33 "2010-11-12T16:05:57Z")
I haven’t smoked for a few years, BUT when I did, it was almost always Marlboro. Every once in a while, when I was younger, we would splurge on Nat Shermans … Black and Golds for the guys, Fantasias for the ladies. I am also one of those people who don’t smoke who still LOVES the smell of cigarette smoke - especially outside on a fall day. The other afternoon, as I was coming out of my doctor’s office, I passed a young woman and I could tell by the smell that she was smoking a Nat Sherman, and wow, did that bring back good memories. (The sad thing here is that I was at a prenatal appt - you’d think that the smoke would bother me NOW but no, it smells as good as it ever did.) Also, I just went to the Nat Sherman web site to confirm I had the name of the Fantasias right, and they are selling a chair based on a Cuban cigar factory worker’s chair, for $395. It is a _sharp_-looking chair. ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2010, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-cigarette-brand/560365/34 "2010-11-12T16:57:52Z")
I smoked Capri menthol 120s. Two boxes a day for I don’t know how many years. [Capri Menthol 120's - 2007 Pack Design | Flickr](http://www.flickr.com/photos/7286006@N06/sets/72157603193913392/) Makes my lungs hurt now just thinking about it. Although I do still occasionally bow to the call of nicorette. ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2010, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-cigarette-brand/560365/35 "2010-11-12T17:53:03Z")
I roll my own. Brand of choice: Drum ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2010, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-cigarette-brand/560365/36 "2010-11-12T17:55:49Z")
When I smoked, I smoked Benson and Hedges. I honestly can’t tell you why. Where I was in West Texas, there was someting of a smoking dichotomy. Blacks would smoke Kools, Hispanics would generally go for Winston, Whites chose Marlboro. (Trichotomy?) ---
**Author:** ![MyFootsZZZ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/myfootszzz/32/12580_2.png) [@MyFootsZZZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MyFootsZZZ)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2010, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-cigarette-brand/560365/37 "2010-11-12T18:11:36Z")
I JUST quit smoking, again. When I wasn’t buying tax free Native American brands, I would buy Marlboro menthols. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2010, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-cigarette-brand/560365/38 "2010-11-12T18:18:14Z")
I was a Marlboro Light guy. Stopped being that guy back in 1999, 2000. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2010, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-cigarette-brand/560365/39 "2010-11-12T18:22:14Z")
Winston Lights Camel Lights Dunhill (Milds? It was the blue pack) I even liked my girlfriend’s Virginia Slims, although I tried not to carry a pack around in public. Been smoke free for 14 years now, ever since marrying. ---
**Author:** ![Emily\_Litella](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emily_litella/32/3370_2.png) [@Emily\_Litella](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Emily_Litella)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2010, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-cigarette-brand/560365/40 "2010-11-12T18:27:15Z")
I used to smoke Virginia Slims, and occasionally Marlboros and Bensen & Hedges. I quit smoking over 5 years ago because a dear friend of mine [SIZE=“4”] **died from lung cancer** [/SIZE]. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-cigarette-brand/560365.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-cigarette-brand/560365.md?page=3)