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In reply to the discussion: If you're old enough to remember cigarette commercials on TV ("Richly rewarding, yet uncommonly [View all]malthaussen
(17,237 posts)44. I smoked about 10 different brands in the 70's
The only significant differences among American cigarettes was filtered/unfiltered or menthol/regular. Everybody smoked Marlboros for the same reason everybody drank Budweiser, they had the heaviest marketing. Pretty much still that way.
I wound up smoking English cigarettes, then quit them altogether and just stayed with my pipe until tobacco became too expensive to buy.
-- Mal
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If you're old enough to remember cigarette commercials on TV ("Richly rewarding, yet uncommonly [View all]
raccoon
Feb 2014
OP
Did you hear the G. W. Bush boo-boo in there? "To a GRECIAN, it's the Parthenon"! nt
tblue37
Feb 2014
#28
Nasty little boys that we were, we claimed it meant "Let's Screw, My Finger's Tired"
Glorfindel
Feb 2014
#49
"from the way she'd wait for a light to the way the smoke would mysteriously veil her face"
aint_no_life_nowhere
Feb 2014
#40