Attn smokers
 

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Most everyone I know smokes Marlboro Lights or Camel Lights. When I do smoke, I prefer Marlboro Lights. People who like cheaper cigarettes may smoke Parliaments. I know that's not the answer to most of your questions, but it's a start.

Also consider menthol vs. regular? I hate menthol cigarettes but that's all some people will smoke.

Re: Attn smokers
 

I was a "social smoker" in the early 90s, and I usually smoked Camel lights, but once in a while I'd smoke menthols -- really, really horrible. There was always a big Camel/Marlboro split. Most people I knew smoked Camels and wouldn't touch Marlboros.

FWIW, Mr. valkyrie smokes American Spirits -- they're "100% additive-free natural tobacco." I smoke like 12 cigarettes a year, but actually like these and they don't make the car smell as bad as other cigarettes. If he can't get those for whatever reason, he smokes Camels. I don't know how common these were in the past -- or where. I'd never heard of them in Chicago but they're fairly common around here -- so it also depends on where your story is taking place.

Mid 80's to 90's - girls smoked Salems, VA Slims or Marlboro Lights.

Guys smoked regular Marlboros or Camels.

Trailer trash smoked Newports.

:p

Incidentally - I smoke Parliaments now, and they're really not that much cheaper than Marlboros. Maybe that's a state to state thing.

Cigarettes cost between $6 and $7 per pack now in NYC. I hear they're cheaper everywhere else.

In the 80s the girls with the big Aquanet hair smoked Marlboro Lights. Those girls frightened me. :eek:

I don't remember any guys I knew smoking since they were athletic.

I quit smoking in February 1997. My smoke of choice was Marlboro lights 100s. Occasionally I would smoke Camel Lights.


On the rare occasions I smoked a menthol, it would be Salem Slim lights or Virginia Slims lights 120s

My sister smokes Newport 100s...back when I was smoking I would rather go without a cigarette than smoke a Newport! Blech!

When I smoke, I love Parliaments FOR the filter...I can't smoke regular cigarettes now, they feel weird. I like to bite on the filter and pretend that my teeth are staying white b/c I do that (in reality it's b/c I bleach them, prob. too much and I don't really smoke unless I'm drinking anyway)

And where on earth are Parliaments cheaper than Marlboro's etc? They seem to be more expensive wherever I go?


/hijack

I was in that split in the late 90s. I would not TOUCH a Marlboro. I remember thinking they smelled horrible, but Camel's smelled nice or something. Weird, I know.

The cig I smoked for the longest was Camel Ultralight 100s.

Marllboro=Philip Morris Pronounces it self as The King of Cigs.

Whites usaully go for In My Shop Marlboros or Winston! If not that, the Cheapest Cigs. GPC, Basic, Dorals, ETC!

Blacks Prefer Menthol such as Newport or Kools.

Younger kids who want to emulate will do Menthol! Cant stand them Myself!:(

Being in the in Group means going with the peer presure!

When I smoked, we were all about the Parliaments...maybe because we were pretend Eurotrash and tried a little too hard. Oh, those and Galouises (sp?). The boy smokes some types of Camels.

In the 80s, I think most people smoked Marlboro Reds.

Most people in Europe roll their own cigarettes because manufactured ones are ungodly expensive, especially in the UK.

Haha yes, I smoked those, too. I even smoked Virginia Slims 110s on occasion -- OH TEH HORROR.

Aries, whether your characters would like Marlboros or Camels really depends on several factors, heh.

Also, teenagers in the working class suburbs of Chicago tended to smoke Newports, or so I hear.