Cigarettes

[RangersBillyBoy]

I know it's a dirty word but I'm curious.

I've always thought there was a regional bias towards certain brands.

For example London/South East Marlboro Lights.
Yorkshire/Derbyshire Regal/Embassy/Lambert&Butler.
Cornwall roll ups.

I used to be a Marlboro Light/Menthol (when I felt all Bohemian) kind of guy.

I think age has an impact too. 

Anyone else?

[Deleted]

I was on JPS for yrs when I was on a ferry a lot so got duty free, then moved onto G.V roll ups for 20 odd yrs
On the south coast but I cant say i'v really seen a regional bias, maybe a age thing/fad though

[RangersBillyBoy]

Mar 18, 2016 6:45:46 GMT @broadblaster said:

I was on JPS for yrs when I was on a ferry a lot so got duty free, then moved onto G.V roll ups for 20 odd yrs
On the south coast but I cant say i'v really seen a regional bias, maybe a age thing/fad though

@broadblaster you realise the idea of being a stowaway is that you get off the ferry somewhere and not stay on it for years.

[charliehorse]

Way back when, every smoker I knew had there own brand they would buy religiously over the others, whether it was B&H, Regal, Club they stuck with it, no geographical boundaries, just brand loyalty I suppose you would call it now.
Then, when the prices went up too much, you either switched to roll ups (like me) or started buying cheaper tabs.
Loads of people ended up on Mayfair just because they were the budget tailor made option.

[DiscoDes]

First cigarette I ever smoked was a Menthol Consulate.

Living in Essex as a young teenage Lad I smoked what I could afford, 10 B&H if I had money, or 10 No6 if I was poor, if I was broke 10 No10,
if I was being a tart Sobraine Cocktail but I did like a menthol More now and again.

As a young man living in Cornwall John Player Blue, sometimes Marlboro, sometimes JPS or Embassy No1

Later when I moved to Somerset and was earning, B&H were my mainstay, then I gave up for 8 or 9 years
Started again due to stress and they had rocketed in price so was on Menthol Berkeley or L&B etc, can't really remember now.

I think economics also has a lot to do with what people smoke based on what they can afford.

Just seen, 20 Consulate are now £9.50

[RangersBillyBoy]

Mar 18, 2016 7:04:54 GMT charliehorse said:

Way back when, every smoker I knew had there own brand they would buy religiously over the others, whether it was B&H, Regal, Club they stuck with it, no geographical boundaries, just brand loyalty I suppose you would call it now.
Then, when the prices went up too much, you either switched to roll ups (like me) or started buying cheaper tabs.
Loads of people ended up on Mayfair just because they were the budget tailor made option.

I was never ever tempted by roll ups. I'd have rather smoked my dead Granny's ashes.

[charliehorse]

Mar 18, 2016 7:12:33 GMT RangersBillyBoy said:

Mar 18, 2016 7:04:54 GMT charliehorse said:

Way back when, every smoker I knew had there own brand they would buy religiously over the others, whether it was B&H, Regal, Club they stuck with it, no geographical boundaries, just brand loyalty I suppose you would call it now.
Then, when the prices went up too much, you either switched to roll ups (like me) or started buying cheaper tabs.
Loads of people ended up on Mayfair just because they were the budget tailor made option.

I was never ever tempted by roll ups. I'd have rather smoked my dead Granny's ashes.

A strange notion for sure ..... but would you not have had to smoke them in a roll up

[RangersBillyBoy]

Mar 18, 2016 7:21:20 GMT charliehorse said:

Mar 18, 2016 7:12:33 GMT RangersBillyBoy said:

I was never ever tempted by roll ups. I'd have rather smoked my dead Granny's ashes.

A strange notion for sure ..... but would you not have had to smoke them in a roll up

No, I would have purchased an ornate pipe. As an Ulster woman she would have appreciated that.

[Richard46]

Mar 18, 2016 7:12:33 GMT RangersBillyBoy said:

Mar 18, 2016 7:04:54 GMT charliehorse said:

Way back when, every smoker I knew had there own brand they would buy religiously over the others, whether it was B&H, Regal, Club they stuck with it, no geographical boundaries, just brand loyalty I suppose you would call it now.
Then, when the prices went up too much, you either switched to roll ups (like me) or started buying cheaper tabs.
Loads of people ended up on Mayfair just because they were the budget tailor made option.

I was never ever tempted by roll ups. I'd have rather smoked my dead Granny's ashes.

The opposite me. Straights always left me with a nasty taste and usually still wanting a decent smoke.

Mind I started smoking via cutting the wacky stuff with baccy so making was always part of the fun. I also dabbled with Capstan Full Strength and Passing Clouds at one time and I had probably killed most of my taste buds by around 1971.

[TJ]

Started on Consulate at age 11, moved to a packet of 5 No 6 from the train station vending then dabbled with B&H and Silk Cut blue as that's what me mum smoked so easily nicked from her packet. Long stretches on Embassy No 1, Lambert & Butler, Rothmans, Royals, JPS then over to rollies started on Drum then the last 10yrs or so on Amber Leaf.

Bearing in mind I have never moved more than 1.5miles from where I was born I don't think area has much to do with it, more what you can afford at the time so when I was rich I smoked the Rothmans then when I were poor it were the Amber Leaf

[RangersBillyBoy]

Mar 18, 2016 7:56:43 GMT TJ said:

Started on Consulate at age 11, moved to a packet of 5 No 6 from the train station vending then dabbled with B&H and Silk Cut blue as that's what me mum smoked so easily nicked from her packet. Long stretches on Embassy No 1, Lambert & Butler, Rothmans, Royals, JPS then over to rollies started on Drum then the last 10yrs or so on Amber Leaf.

Bearing in mind I have never moved more than 1.5miles from where I was born I don't think area has much to do with it, more what you can afford at the time so when I was rich I smoked the Rothmans then when I were poor it were the Amber Leaf

I too started on Consulate TJ and at that time they had wee green stars around the filter.

[DiscoDes]

It was funny seeing school kids smoking More cigarettes that were like long brown twigs and Sobraine Cocktail with the different colour filters.
Not every day mind you, one mate worked as a paperboy and *ahem* helped himself to the odd packet of cigarettes now and then so we'd try something exotic now and then.

[RangersBillyBoy]

Mar 18, 2016 8:05:55 GMT DiscoDes said:

It was funny seeing school kids smoking More cigarettes that were like long brown twigs and Sobraine Cocktail with the different colour filters.
Not every day mind you, one mate worked as a paperboy and *ahem* helped himself to the odd packet of cigarettes now and then so we'd try something exotic now and then.

When I used to go to certain clubs in London several ladies smoked Sobraine Cocktails or Black Russian.

Great days.

[Deleted]

roll ups all the way for me - never liked tailor mades...

and the odd mild vanilla pipe tobacco or cherry menthol from the tobacconist -

Funny - never got on with tobacco vape flavours.....prefer fruit/dessert

Interesting thread though

[mart166]

I used to smoke JP blues then switched to Embassy no1's when blues phased out, was always getting accused of smoking northern ciggies !! yet I go up north about once every 2 years. It was all down to taste for me.


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