All sorts of rolling tobaccos generally, from Tops to different fancy Dutch shags. Also marlboro reds, camel blues, and occasionally something random like marlboro 27s or reservation cigarettes.
Back in the day… Lucky Strike Studs…
Du Maurier kingsize is what I used to smoke
awhile back id smoke stirling and mayfair, just because they were cheap and i wasnt dedicated to rolling. then i moved onto rolling, buying it online (the kendal rolling stuff), and if id buy in store id get drum blue/gold or marlboro reds. now i dont really smoke, but if i do, itll be drum or m-red instore, or auld kendal online.
For anyone who smokes GH Auld Kendal ryo save yourself some money and buy GH Kendal Gold, Kendal Dark and Kendal Mixed pipe tobacco, they are the exact same tobacco as their Auld counterparts but because its a “pipe tobacco” its taxed less then the Auld line so its much cheaper.
Nostalgia flash back. first was weeds, then pick up cigarettes,domestic & filtered cigars and pipe to camouflage eureka,tops ,buglar ,zig-zag, kite, old gold ,camel,lucky strike.pall mall, kool, parliaments, chesterfields, raleigh, viceroy, tareyton, barclay, now, more, belair, salem, winstons, kent, true, merit, lark, l&m,saratoga, newport, marlboro,players, benson & hedges, jacks, winchesters, parodi ,dutch masters, phillies ,swisher sweets,hav a Tampa, black and mild, erik ,half/half, prince albert, captain black, bali shag , drum, sansom, american spirit. PS norwegian, nat shermans, dunhill international. Seems like a life time ago. Now I just enjoy my pipes and all the great tobaccos I can get my hands on, I will still twist up a smoke when in the mood. And a good cigar. also the occasional dokha.
First Export light and machine rollies (5 years), then Drum for 5 years, then mostly Camel plain with occasional Sweet Caporal Plain/Mark Ten/Sportsman/Player’s plain for about 5 years, then Canadian classic filters for about 8 years, then Export plain for about 2 years. On trips to the States I sought out English Ovals, but if I couldn’t find them I’d find Chesterfields, and if neither of them then Lucky Strike plain, Pall Mall plain, or Camel plain. I never found Commanders, but I only looked for them in the last year of smoking and I just quit a couple of months ago. There’s an interesting skew in the demographics towards unfiltered cigarettes, compared with the norm. Clearly we are a sample who wants as much flavour as possible from our tobacco.
I was a dedicated Newport smoker until I quit 30 years ago. I guess that qualifies as “as much flavour as possible”… menthol with a hint of mint.
I smoked Marlboro Reds and Kamel Reds for years. I was smoking L&Ms when i quit. Still smoke a cigar once in awhile. Smoke a little Dohka occasionally, and i recently got a carton of Djarum Black kreteks from Indonesia. Snuff is my daily nicotine but like to keep different smoking tobaccos on hand if the mood strikes me.
Used to smoke Camels, Camel Wides, Marlboro Reds occasionally, cloves, beedees, and any random cigarette when the need called for it. Don’t miss the lung pollution!
I still handroll American Spirit but taking snuff has helped me cut back on that quite a bit. I used to smoke Camels all the time but rolling my own is a lot cheaper so I took to that instead. I’m about to make an order to leafonly.com and shred my own tobacco for smoking to save 75% on my tobacco usage v. buying the American Spirit RYO.
DuMaurier regular for the longest time then I went from those to DM Light, Extra Light, then Ultra Light. Then when it got too expensive I started going to the native reserve about 15 minutes away to buy bags of rollies which were $12-$15 for a carton’s worth of smokes. Not exactly high quality stuff. Not long after that I gave up lighting my tobacco and started on the snus/dip/snuff.
Started with Silk Cut filters (purple) then Marlboro lights, gaulioses blondes and if I could ever get them from abroad parliament lights and l&m lights. I also remember being able to get majors when I was at school, they used to pack a punch! Park drive too when you were low on cash.
Disque Bleu or Gauloise Filters when I could get them, Tor Turkish or Oriental when I could afford them and Marlboro Red for the rest of the time. Before those nasty people in Brussels effectively banned them I used to love unfiltered Turkish cigarettes. Sweet Afton were nice, too, but very difficult to get. Mind you, not had a cigarette at all in about 11 years…
A really long time i smoked “anadolu”, it’s a turkish-american blend which is made by jti. Later on it has changed into some fabricated turd. And i switched around Camel, Chesterfield red and Marlboro lights. edit: These were only the fabricated ones, i usually smoked ryo. Old holborn yellow, without filtertips, with ocb.
I’ve never been a regular smoker, but when I smoked it was red Luckies, red Marlboro or handrolled.
When I smoked cigs and had money I smoked Camel Filters and an occasional American Spirit Perique pack. Once the budget got tight I rolled or injected my own using whatever tobacco I could afford.
Camel Lights (Blue)
Rolling&Pipe tobaccos, Manitou green organic, American Spirit red, Pielroja, Old Holborn blue. And I was fill the pipe with Capstan flake blue, Rattrays Brown Clunee/Red Rapparee, Samuel Gawith Best brown/Full Virginia flake/Sams flake/Skiff mixture, Sillems Black, Solani Aged Burley flake/Silver flake 660. W.O.Larsen 1864/Signature. McClelland all the Grand Orientals.
Red Chesterfield. If not available, then L&M red. I remember my friend, who was couple of years older than me, to occasionally speak about his old smoking habit. He had then quit, but everytime someone spoke about cigs, he said: “if you are going to smoke, smoke red Chesterfield.”