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[He Man]

I dont claim to be a smoker, but i do smoke occasionally. Not a big fan of the taste of 90% of the cigarettes out there. I recently tried some fresh rolled tobacco from those foil packages, or atleast i think it was a foiled package, and holy boy! Fresh tobacco = MUCH better than cigarettes. I dip about a can every 2 months, and probably smoked less than 20 packs since i first tried ciggs 4 years ago.

[cyrus buelton]

I rolled my own cigarettes while in Ireland, too make the beast with two backsing expensive to buy packs (about 8-9 euro).

Rolling took some practice, but worked out pretty well.

However, it didn't help my skills when I got to Amsterdam

[ducatiz]

I dont claim to be a smoker, but i do smoke occasionally. Not a big fan of the taste of 90% of the cigarettes out there. I recently tried some fresh rolled tobacco from those foil packages, or atleast i think it was a foiled package, and holy boy! Fresh tobacco = MUCH better than cigarettes. I dip about a can every 2 months, and probably smoked less than 20 packs since i first tried ciggs 4 years ago.

my first smoke was a hand-rolled Drum.  I don't know why I liked it so much, i gagged like a pregnant dog, but the flavour was so much better than anything else.

Drum and the knockoff Samson are good stuff.

I had a rolling machine in college, but not much tobacco was in it.

[cyrus buelton]

damn, I am trying to think of the tobacco we rolled in Ireland.

It might have been drum.

[Monsterlover]

I do...

but not those pinkies out Brit things.

Give me my humps....no filters, of course.   

When you run out of those, do you just roll up some pink insulation and have at it?

C'mon, I know you do it.

You're iron like that.

[ducatiz]

I do...

but not those pinkies out Brit things.

Give me my humps....no filters, of course.   

yeah yeah, i don't smoke with my pinky or any other appendage out, but they do taste good and for only a pack a month i can justify it.

no filters?  cough out any charcoal lately?  yeesh.. no good no good

[zarn02]

i smoke a little as a hobby.

never managed to make it a habit.

i prefer non-filters. used to smoke camel or pall mall, more the latter since you get screwed on the former.

then i sort of went on a clove cigarette kick.

not much smoking for me lately, though. though it may happen, as in korea smoking is still very much "in vogue."

[darylbowden]

Really, who actually gets a soft pack? And if you do, why the make the beast with two backs?

Seriously, i always wondered.  And, at least 5x a month, you'd go to the gas station and they'd only have soft packs.

Btw, also a benefit of smoking dunhill - no soft packs.

I brought back dunhills, but in a regular cigarette pack and the box was white, with a red label.

Those are the "light" dunhills.

[Vindingo]

Dont smoke now, but I when I started working construction at 15 my boss gave me the line "if you are standing around, you're dicking around.  If you are smoking, you're on a cig brake." 

I smoked until my last year of college, so in total about 6 years on and off.  If I wasnt smoking I was chewing Skoal.  The first kind I smoked was Camel lights and last brand was Winston


RE: soft packs

The hard box was always getting crushed in my pants pocket during work anyway so I went for the soft packs.  I liked smoking bent and smashed butts, they looked cooler.   I also used to hold them in the breast pocket of my shirts so soft packs were better for that as well. 

[Big Troubled Bear]

I have been smoking for far to long,

Started with Camel Filters and have been smoking Lucky Strike Filters for the last 8 years, once a week I buy a pack of Marlboro Menthols.

Still got all my teeth

[factorPlayer]

I picked up smoking in high school, then quit at 19 until I was 23.  Somehow managed to stay (tobacco) smoke-free during the primo party years.  'Til I spent a summer in Europe anyway.

Don't smoke regularly though, and am pretty much the world's worst cig bum.  When I buy my own they are American Spirits. 


$10 a pack?  that's make the beast with two backsed up....

[Jarvicious]

I gotta say there's nothing better than a fine cigarette and a good beer.  I drive 1200 or so miles a week for work so I try not to buy a pack any more unless I have one of "those days".  For about two months I rolled my own off of some German tobacco the local tobacconist had (it was a full ounce, this is how much I smoke) just so I would smoke less.  It's a great deterrent actually when you realize you have to make your own.  That ran out and I went back to my Turkish Silvers.....never again.  Can't do the gas station stuff any more.  Anyone ever tried Fantasias?  Made in NY, the cigarettes themselves are neon colors, but they're still one of my favs.  Good flavor and they're really tightly packed, you just can't smoke them in public unless you want to get a bunch of odd looks.

factorPlayer, you apparently beat me to the posting punch, I'm glad I'm not the only one up at this hour.  Friggin 3 hour naps......

[ducpainter]

When you run out of those, do you just roll up some pink insulation and have at it?

C'mon, I know you do it.

You're iron like that.

If I wanted fiberglass with my tobacco I'd smoke filtered cigarettes.

[NuTTs]

Cigarettes still cost around 2EUR a pack of 20 in Spain. I stopped smoking early January 2008.

I haven't really looked back but, when I am really stressed I do get the urge every once in a while for a smoke.

[ducati_tim]

I smoked at least a pack a day until 3 years ago. Marlboro reds were my brand of choice, but I have probably tried every brand at one time or another (especially when drinking). I live on a pretty steep hill, and I started getting winded carrying my kids up and down it. Bye-bye, ciggies