If you smoked; when you smoked, what was your brand?

[Floyd R. Turbo]

I started with Marlboro, went to Raleigh, finished with Export A.

[BOSSHOG]

1. Okay let me not answer the question

I’m almost 71. I’ve never, ever smoked. My older brother smoked like a chimney and he’s long gone. My vices are many but smoking isn’t one of them. Thank you for letting me barge in.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

2. Barging is welcomed!

[MustLoveBeagles]

3. Marlboro

Then whatever was on sale. Been smoke free for almost 4 years.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

4. Congratulations!

[Kali]

5. mostly Marlboro light 100s

but there as a period or three of Kools

[Floyd R. Turbo]

10. 😬

[applegrove]

6. I started smoking Moores cigarillos. A friend had them.

Peter Jackson, Benson and Hedges, du Maurier, Matinee. And on two New Years Eve, cocktail cigarettes in different colours. So glad I quit. I hate them now and never crave.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

11. 🤗

[pandr32]

7. I grew up in Canada, so Players were popular.

When I was in the U.S. I smoked several brands. Europe has better tobacco.
41 yrs ago when I found out I was pregnant, I quit. I can't imagine smoking now.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

12. 🤗

[XanaDUer2]

8. Candy cigs

Would blow out the sugar like smoke

[Floyd R. Turbo]

14. 😁

[Different Drummer]

69. Yep. Same here.

[anciano]

9. I quit over 30 years ago ....

but I used to smoke Marlboro cigarettes and Sir Walter Raleigh pipe tobacco.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

15. 🤗

[thinkingagain]

13. For only a few years

When I was much younger never smoked heavily

Marlboro lights mostly
A few others, bummed a few
Even rolled a few when money was tight
It’s been a lot of years don’t really want to smoke again
But hey every once in awhile I think I hear my brain say
“ I could use a cigerette”

[Floyd R. Turbo]

16. 🤗

[True Dough]

17. Finished with Export A?

You quit, Floyd? If so, how along ago? Cold turkey? What made your turn the corner?

I've been a non-smoker all my life, but inhaled far too much second-hand smoke while trapped in the backseat of the car on road trips with my smoking parents. Sure, the windows were down, but that only helped a bit.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

37. I quit April 30, 1976. Cold turkey. My wife's doctor told her she should quit smoking. She had never smoked in her life.

[True Dough]

38. Aw, you did it for the sake of your beloved wife!

Good for you, Floyd. Your devotion to her helped you put that nasty habit behind you long ago. Good for your health and your bank account because cigarettes are expensive!

[elleng]

18. Players, British brand

Then I came home!!!

[Floyd R. Turbo]

45. 😁

[DBoon]

19. Thai Stick

Oh, you meant tobacco...

[Bobstandard]

29. OMG I remember Thai sticks!

Luckily, I survived.

[IbogaProject]

32. There was a book recently Thai Stick by Columbia University Press

https://cup.columbia.edu/book/thai-stick/9780231161350

It isn't a dry academic book but actual stories from a few of the crew who brought in Thai Sticks for awhile in the 70s and 80s.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

46. 😎

[JoseBalow]

20. OP's

[Harker]

43. You and Bob Seger. n/t, L.S.M.F.T.

[LuckyCharms]

62. I worked in a drug store during college. While unpacking and stocking Lucky Strikes, we used to say that L.S.M.F.T

meant...Let's stop, my finger's tired.

[Harker]

64. I worked in a news and smoke shop starting when I was sixteen.

All I remember for sure was the M and the F tied in together somehow...

[Floyd R. Turbo]

47. 😁

[S/V Loner]

21. Kools

[Floyd R. Turbo]

48. My dad's brand!

[Different Drummer]

70. Kools were the go to smokes of my maternal grandfather.

Sometimes, as a change of pace, he would either smoke Belairs or roll his own using a tin of Prince Albert and rolling papers.

[S/V Loner]

72. When they got so expensive I started rolling my own too. n/t

[yonder]

22. I never smoked, but my dad ... hoo boy, a human chimney.

Even after he "quit" — Lucky Strikes and Pall Mall were both his fix and his undoing. RIP dad.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

49. 😥

[Americanme]

23. Most of the time, Marlboro.

Sometimes Camel, or whatever was cheapest. I quit smoking cigarettes almost 12 years ago.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

50. 👍🏻

[sinkingfeeling]

24. Started with Virginia Slims Menthol and then Salem Lights. Ended buying

cartons of some off brand from the Indian tribes in Oklahoma.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

51. 👍🏻

[Earl_from_PA]

25. Old Gold

Then Sobranie. Then Marlboro. Then I had children, so now, the least expensive option, which can vary week to week...

[Floyd R. Turbo]

55. 😁

[Luciferous]

26. Marlboro, quit almost 20 years ago.

Had to have a lung biopsy last week for a suspicious nodule, really wish I had never started at all.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

56. 👍🏻

Hope all is well!

[woodsprite]

27. All my smoking was second hand from living in a household of chain smokers

I could tell who was in our house by what the different brands smelled like, even when I was up in my bedroom with my door shut. My dad (Kents), mom (Marlboro menthol), my brother (Winchester), my grandfather (really stinky cigars or a pipe with cherry or vanilla scented tobacco). Aunts, Uncles - all seemed to smoke different brands.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

57. 😬

[Talitha]

28. I'm 72 years old and smoked from 1970 till about 1986 or so.

Menthol was my preference so it was Kool, Salem, and Virginia Slims.

Smokes were really cheap when I started - $5 a carton, IIRC.
When I quit I think they were about $1 a pack.
Wouldn't doubt if they're $1 per cigarette by now.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

58. 👍🏻

[Cartoonist]

30. Backwoods

I didn't smoke them so much as using them to hide the smell of what I actually was smoking. I don't know if I was fooling anyone.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

66. 😏

[WheelWalker]

31. Winston for 33 years. Quit cold turkey May 14, 2003.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

67. 👍🏻

[LudwigPastorius]

33. Camel filters then Winston lights. I started in college.

Smoked Dunhills for a time somewhere in there too.

The last year, I was down to one smoke at night on my front porch. Then I quit completely. Been clean for 8 years.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

68. 👍🏻

[Comrade Citizen]

34. One Newport in the evening

Can't be worse than my lifetime of breathing in pesticide/herbicide spray plus cement kiln, coal plant, and refinery emissions.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

74. 🤗

[LeftInTX]

35. Marlboro. But smoking and I didn't agree. I smoked about a pack or two a week for 5 years.

For a few more years, I would light up when I was stressed. Finally I just gave up. I always was getting sick. Haven't had a cigarette since 1982

[Floyd R. Turbo]

75. 👍🏻

[Midwestern Democrat]

36. Marlboro with Winston as my second choice if the former is sold out. NT

[Floyd R. Turbo]

84. 😃

[WestMichRad]

39. Panama Red

[Floyd R. Turbo]

85. 😎

[roamer65]

40. Camels and salems.

Years since, but god were they good.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

86. 😁

[boonecreek]

41. Unfiltered Camels.

Quit in November of '87.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

87. 😬👍🏻

[Paladin]

42. Romeo y Julieta cigars. The real ones. From Cuba.

Didn't get them very often, seeing as how they're prohibited here in the U.S., but I sure enjoyed the ones I had in years past. Beautiful smokes.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

89. ☺️

[Mosby]

44. My last pack of cigs were Camel lights.

Really nice, smooth smoke. I miss cigarettes, still dream about smoking, 15 years after quitting.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

90. 👍🏻

[LuckyCharms]

52. Marlboro Lights/Winston Lights. Quit 12 years ago.

[GoYouPackersGo]

53. California Sinsemilla

Never smoked tobacco though.

[peacebuzzard]

54. Winston. Does it still exist? sometimes Kools

Or was it Cools? Probably doesn't exist anymore.

[surfered]

59. Marlboro, free in C-Rations, 19 cents a pack at the PX

Back when i was young and stupid. I quit cigarettes on my 40th birthday. Not sure I would be here today if I hadn’t.

[cloudbase]

60. Marlboro.

Quit in the middle of the Red Sea during Gulf War I.

If I ever get a terminal diagnosis, the first thing I'll do is buy a pack of smokes.

[marble falls]

61. Same as I still smoke Mexican no-names.

[Niagara]

63. I started off on Marlboro

At one time I switched to Basic, which is a generic brand of Marlboro.


My last 8 years of cigarette smoking I purchased Smoking Joe's from a reservation. An entire carton was $25.


I no longer smoke. As of January 31, 2020 I'm 5 years free!!

[malthaussen]

65. I smoked a pipe until tobacco became ridiculously expensive.

For cigarettes, which I rarely used, I preferred Players or Black Russians.

-- Mal

[mnhtnbb]

71. Whatever the smoker(s) I was with

was smoking.
I only ever smoked socially, usually having drinks with grad school classmates--guys--most of whom were Vietnam vets. I don't remember ever buying cigs myself. I think most of the guys smoked Marlboros. It was the mid '70's.

[Wicked Blue]

73. Camels. Unfiltered.

[RandySF]

76. I didn't but my mom smoked Kent.

[Sneederbunk]

77. I use hickory with pork and oak with beef.

[rzemanfl]

78. Statred with Luckies, switched to Camels, then Dorals until I quit.

[OAITW r.2.0]

79. Started with Lucky Strikes (Dads_/////the tp "Winstones", then Parliments (recessed tip.

Settled in with Marlboro lights. I don't smoke no more.

But I don't smoke no less.

[unweird]

80. Started on Kools

Switched to Marlboro reds on a trip when Kools weren’t available. Back then in early 80s we could get cartons on sale in the PX for $1.99 but regular price was $2.99. Worked my way down to Marlboro lights when I finally quit in 2001.

[Bavorskoami]

81. Mostly Winstons

Carton cost $2.10 in US at Army PX in 1968.
Cost was $1.90 at PXs in Germany.
I quit almost 45 years ago when my mother, a smoker, was dying of lung cancer. I remember her having Chesterfields and Pall Malls in the '50s and working down to low nicotine True.

[dai13sy]

82. I started with Winston when I was 15, then Marlboro in the box until I quit forever in 2016 at 69

It's never too late and I feel wonderful

[GP6971]

83. Winston. Quit after I got out of the Army years ago.

[electric_blue68]

88. Does Second Hand Smoke in the Cafeteria's Girls Bathroom count?! "Cough, Cough, ACK!" 😵‍💫

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