Old Holborn versus Golden Virginia Red Green or Blue Rizlas

Richard Ruck · Post by **Richard Ruck** » Tue Nov 15, 2005 6:29 pm

huntertitus wrote:Another vote for Old Holborn and green rizlas, but sometimes I used Guards, and if I wanted to show off there was Sobranie Cocktails or if you really wanted to show how macho you were Capstan Full Strength.

Did anyone ever make fags up from previously smoked dog-ends?

Yes! I remember, out of desperation, nicking 'Pinky' Palmer's dog-ends from the fire buckets.

God, they were awful! However, not as bad as No.6s or, even worse, No.10s.

Really bad, they were.

Sobranie Cocktails (and Blacks) still exist, I think, but are now called something else.

Anyone ever smoke 'MORE' cigarettes? Very long, thin brown things in a red pack.

huntertitus · Post by **huntertitus** » Tue Nov 15, 2005 6:50 pm

If you were feeling poor you could take your 16p and buy 20 - was it Carlsboro - in a purple packet

Or cheaper still was a packet of 5 Park Drive

Euterpe13 · Post by **Euterpe13** » Wed Nov 16, 2005 12:17 pm

Richard Ruck wrote:Sobranie Cocktails (and Blacks) still exist, I think, but are now called something else.

Anyone ever smoke 'MORE' cigarettes? Very long, thin brown things in a red pack.

I remember Sobranie - used to buy the turkish blend - v. good for stinking other people out
"More" still exist - horrible things, like trying to smoke a pencil, and burn down faster than your average fuse ( is that perhaps what they really are?)
B.

englishangel · Post by **englishangel** » Wed Nov 16, 2005 12:22 pm

Gitanes anyone?

Richard Ruck · Post by **Richard Ruck** » Wed Nov 16, 2005 12:32 pm

englishangel wrote:Gitanes anyone?

Oh yes!

My cigarette of choice (unfiltered) until I quit 3 years ago.

Lovely flavour!

englishangel · Post by **englishangel** » Wed Nov 16, 2005 12:56 pm

I went to France on an exchange the Easter before O levels and smoked a couple. I got on extremely well with the girl I exchanged with and the following summer (aged 17) I went for a visit.

I spent 3 weeks in a pleasant fug of Gitanes and cheap red wine.

Had a couple of quick snogs with her brother too if memory serves.

efsis · Post by **efsis** » Wed Nov 16, 2005 1:58 pm

Gitanes ! Far too dangerous. Like a beacon to any prowling grecian / master within 1 km. Not even a packet of polos could get rid of the smell of the things.

Does anyone remember a brand similar to Moore called " Mahawa " or something like that, same length but a bit like a cigar wrapped in liqourice paper ?

Richard Ruck · Post by **Richard Ruck** » Wed Nov 16, 2005 2:15 pm

efsis wrote:Gitanes ! Far too dangerous. Like a beacon to any prowling grecian / master within 1 km. Not even a packet of polos could get rid of the smell of the things.

Does anyone remember a brand similar to Moore called " Mahawa " or something like that, same length but a bit like a cigar wrapped in liqourice paper ?

As smoked by Kojak, I believe.

I think we would have liked to have smoked them, but they were too expensive.

J.R. · Post by **J.R.** » Wed Nov 16, 2005 3:54 pm

Jeeves wrote:
Richard Ruck wrote:Anyone ever use snuff?

There was a time when it was quite popular at C.H. Horsham (the shop in Middle Street had a fine selection).

It was only a passing fad, though.....
Snuff was a "passing fad" in ThB on my UF. Quite a discreet way of consuming tobacco, but not recommended as the tobacco particles are miniscule. I remember an occasion where a friend panicked while taking snuff and inhaled far too much - the results were not pleasant and put me off taking snuff again. The Horsham tobacconist also had a good variety of flavoured tobaccos, "cherry brandy" was pleasant but cut too thick.

My combo was drum and green rizla.

Hendrik wrote: did anyone else ever have a 'concept' machine?

Still available round our local Ram-Jam corner shop.

Good, though the really defeat the object, as you have to use far more tobacco !

Hendrik · Post by **Hendrik** » Tue Nov 22, 2005 8:41 am

have been smoke free since thursday morning! which is damn hard when most of your friends smoke. not bad, eh?

if anyone wants me to send cheap tobacco over from austria, PM me.

Great Plum · Post by **Great Plum** » Tue Nov 22, 2005 10:17 am

Hendrik wrote:have been smoke free since thursday morning! which is damn hard when most of your friends smoke. not bad, eh?

if anyone wants me to send cheap tobacco over from austria, PM me.

Not a sentence I thought I'd see Hendrik write...

How come you quit?

ben ashton · Post by **ben ashton** » Tue Nov 22, 2005 12:21 pm

have you quit smoking? or just tobacco?

Hendrik · Post by **Hendrik** » Wed Nov 23, 2005 7:11 am

ben ashton wrote:have you quit smoking? or just tobacco?

how well you know me...

i quit because my girlfriend doesn't smoke and i don't want to taste like an ashtray.

dogger · Post by **dogger** » Wed Nov 23, 2005 9:02 am

What about the boyfriend though......?

Great Plum · Post by **Great Plum** » Wed Nov 23, 2005 9:29 am

Hendrik wrote:
ben ashton wrote:have you quit smoking? or just tobacco?
how well you know me...

i quit because my girlfriend doesn't smoke and i don't want to taste like an ashtray.

Nothing more disgusting than snogging an ashtray...