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.

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

but there as a period or three of Kools

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.

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.

Would blow out the sugar like smoke

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

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”

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.

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!

Then I came home!!!

Oh, you meant tobacco...

Luckily, I survived.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Hope all is well!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Years since, but god were they good.

Quit in November of '87.

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.

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

Never smoked tobacco though.

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

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.

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.

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!!

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

-- Mal

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.

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

But I don't smoke no less.

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.

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.

It's never too late and I feel wonderful

Mixed brands