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Cigarettes - how many Different brands can you remember ?

How many Different brands of cigarettes can you remember ?

Montclair
Salem
Alpine
Kools
Camel
Carlton
Marlboro
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ArishMell · 70-79, M
I don't smoke so almost the only one I remember, and that only because Dad bought them decades ago, is Players - made in his home town of Nottingham. too.

The packets bore the snappy slogan Players Please

There was also a Senior Service - I think a separate make not a Players brand. The packets carried a small portrait of an old-time Royal Navy sailor smoking a pipe, I think. (The RN's nickname is the "Senior Service".)


About the only other brands I can name are the American-made Marlborough and the two French ones, Gitanes and Gauloise. Plus Virginia rolling, and Clan pipe, tobaccoes.

That's about all though!

Another reason I know so few is I see hardly any! For quite some years now all tobacco products have had to be sold from behind-the-counter cabinets, with no open displays, and little or no advertising; sports organisations no longer carry tobacco-company sponsorship and advertising - and as far fewer people smoke tobacco nowadays you don't see so many packets about either.


Dad very occasionally brought another "brand" home from sometimes working aboard Royal Naval vessels or in RN bases as a civilian contractor. There he seemed able to buy cigarettes in plain packets bearing no commercial brand name, just a statement of being for sale to RN personnel only.
eyeno · M
@ArishMell fantastic information which kept me reading, thanks for sharing this 👍🏼
ArishMell · 70-79, M
@eyeno Thankyou!
that looks like more like a pre-roll one would buy at a pot shop....on another note ciggies killed my mom, and in a horrible way....doesn't matter what brand it was
Iwillwait · M
@beermeplease see...? You do have a good memory. 😆
Sorry to hear that. @beermeplease
Peter Stuyvesant
Pall Mall
Camel
Chesterfield
Dunhill
Benson &Hedges
LuckyStrike
Malboro
Lexington
JPS
Gunston
Kent
Winston
Cartier
Colt
Embassy


Off the top of my head.
eyeno · M
@CrystalSkull thanks for commenting, there's several brands I don't recognize.👍🏼
supersnipe · 61-69, M
Gauloises
Gitanes
Pall Mall
Consulate
Lucky Strike
Marlboro
Woodbine
Capstan
John Player Special
eyeno · M
@supersnipe nice list some I've never heard of 👍🏼
supersnipe · 61-69, M
@eyeno Some of them might be UK only. Lucky Strike and Marlboro were everywhere. Some others that I can remember advertising for in the 60s....Strand and Perfectos
eyeno · M
@supersnipe thats what I thought must be UK. Thanks for your replies and comments 👍🏼
WandererTony · 56-60, M
I smoked some 5 brands from the thrifty college days to the relatively rich work life days.

But can remember at least 15 brands. Mostly local to my country.
WandererTony · 56-60, M
@eyeno no I completely quit few years back.
eyeno · M
@WandererTony good job quitting 👍🏼
WandererTony · 56-60, M
@eyeno 30 years. Quit twice for 2 years each and then finally. Hopefully not too late🙂.
DrWatson · 70-79, M
When I was little, cigarette ads were on television.

Since nobody in my immediate family smoked, my memories are mainly from those commercials.

Kent
Marlboro
Lucky Strike
Salem
Winston
Raleigh

And later on:
Benson and Hedges
Virginia Slims
eyeno · M
@DrWatson ya, I remember those days when cigarettes and alcohol were common ads on the t.v., till they banned them in the U.S..👍🏼
hunkalove · 61-69, M
@DrWatson LSMFT
DrWatson · 70-79, M
@hunkalove Wow. I think I have maybe two neurons left in my brain that remembered that slogan!
Iwillwait · M
Merit
Newport
Chesterfield
Djarm
Winston
Pyramid
American Spirit
Virginia Slim
Kent
Parlament
eyeno · M
@Iwillwait good memory 👍🏼. Chesterfield, I use to steal my dads.
Iwillwait · M
@eyeno Me too. Well I stole just about every brand. I was a Brandito. 🤫
to add to your list,
Chesterfield
Lucky Strike
Virginia Slims
American Spirit
Winston
Kent
Merit
I remember Winston. @PhoenixPhail
@Spoiledbrat Yep. Winston tastes good like a 👏 👏 cigarette should.
GunFinger · F
Marlboro
Winston
Pall Mall
Capri
Winfield
Longbeach
Peter Jackson
Camal Marlboro Pall Mall
eyeno · M
@Spoiledbrat Pall Mall is the one I forgot 👍🏼,

hunkalove · 61-69, M
eyeno · M
@hunkalove Fatimas packaging reminds me of Chesterfield Kings.
hunkalove · 61-69, M
@eyeno Fatimas became Chesterfields in the 1940s. There are some early episodes of Dragnet with Jack Webb selling them.
eyeno · M
@hunkalove hehe..thanks for the interesting info Mr. Hunk 👍🏼
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eyeno · M
@OlderSometimesWiser hehe..., I use to buy them too lol. 👍🏼
The only ones I carried around were "Virginia Slims" and "Gauloises".
eyeno · M
@bijouxbroussard Gauloises, first time hearing about them 👍🏼
eyeno · M
@bijouxbroussard thanks Bijoux for sharing 👍🏼

 
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