I am a menthol smoker. I don't have 'stories' exactly, but bad friggin luck.
I started smoking Camel Turkish Jade as my first brand loyal cigarette habit. They were kinda hard to get where I lived, so I switched to salem black label. Which has been discontinued. By then, I had moved and turkish jades were pretty easy to find, so back there. And...They're now discontinued. Cue a while if I don't care, menthol and cheapish, or my husbands Kools. Finally just start buying Camel menthol.
Which now have the stupid little crush ball in all of 'em. I refuse to buy clicky cigarettes. Plus I really get weirded out wondering 'what exactly is this stuff, again? It'd not exactly 'menthol' it's close, but...' So yeah. I currently vape to keep me from smoking as much (really thats about all I'm going for, I can't handle the 2.5-3PAD required for me to not be nic fitting, so my goal's 1/2ppd or under, I'm not to picky about where 'under; falls).
I have discovered that near ALL menthol cigarettes I can find are either
Sticky (weird to explain, not actually sticky, but do something weird in my mouth I can only describe as 'sticky')
Taste like spearmint (no. Just no. I have it in the dried herbs cabinet, if I wanted to smoke it, I would. I DON'T)
Involve clicky balls
Are ridiculously 'harsh', the best comparison I can think of is that stale dried out smoke you lost in your car but decided to smoke anyway. And that is while you can still tell that they're not, still squishy and moist.
So...I am back to RYO, buy camel wide menthols, or steal the husbands Kools. I tend to stick with RYOing as I have a little more control to get what I want and a lot less cost.
So, moral of the post: If you still smoke some and are a Camel wides person, don't get to attached, they're my current brand so they'll be going away soon
A Q for Jaker:
Out of curiosity, I know you say a mix of mint and menthol, how much of it would you say is 'mint' as opposed to the cool tingly awesome that is menthol? A lot of my gripe up there applies to the menthol liquids I've tried too. I just don't get why anyone would want what to me seems like an overly sweet dinner mint mixed with tobacco and I'm actually kind of scared to order any more menthol tobaccos because of it, but I've been eyeballing your site for a while and am probably going to give in and place an order before long, so was wondering if it should make my 'try it' list