boy ! ain't dat da truff
I was a 40+ year'er too
I was NO tootle smoker
I was a hard core diesel motor style smoker
loved my “NONs” camel straights, Lucky’s, Chesterfield etc
and then all the big main brands filtered ones
remember “I’d rather fight than switch” back in the day… Tareytons
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turns out it's not NIC that I/we were hook'd on
haha, thinking of some of the "out of the box" marketing available back when...
true had that plastic 'tri' filter ????
Tareyton had the charcoal filter
Vantage had the hard circle filter, with a hole down the center
then the "Lights" surfaced and was a big splash for awhile
can't think of any more just now...
Decent cheap cigs here in KY $34/carton. Marlboro about $45/carton.
I was a 3 PADer myself. Started smoking True's because thats what i swiped from the ol man lol. Then Winstons, Marlboro's and Camels.
Tried Luckys and a few others and ended up on cowboy killers for many years. As a kid you could go into a store and tell them your mom or dad wanted a pack of whatever and they would sell it to you as long as it was for one of your parents.
But as dense as my parents were, they weren't totally stupid, and became aware of the thefts. So I had to agree to start doing a buttload more chores and they bought me cigarettes... when I was 15, until I had my first job, the summer I turned 17. In my Sr year, they wouldn't let me work while still in high school, so they gave me yet more chores to do, and went back to buying my cigarettes. So I became acquainted from a young age that smoking cost money... but if I had known then how much they would eventually cost, I'd have quit BEFORE they were a dollar a pack. They were only .50, .55 a pk when I started in '75.
In '75, nobody ever asked -- I was only 14, so I was always afraid they would, but they never did. Of course, I was very tall, and always looked older than I really was -- probably why I also had no trouble buying beer at 17 (the drinking age was 18, and I looked about 25).
I also stole smokes from my parents, Vantage menthol -- those ones with the hollow filters. They had the great advantage of being a) menthol, which most didn't like, and b) those hollow filters were a real turn-off to most... so I rarely got bothered with bum a smoke, gimme a hit requests...
Andria
I use one of these on my Origen Genesis since the threads on it are aluminum.
I started smoking at 17 and although my parents knew, I also wasn't allowed to smoke at home until I was 18. My mother was a light smoker but dad, apart from a puff on his brother's cigar on Christmas day, never smoked and didn't much like the fact that my sister and I took it up. He also for some reason hated the fact that we used matches and bought us both a really nice lighter each, bless himI wasnt allowed to smoke in my parents house until I was 18 and was put thru a wall a few times when busted for smoking, yet on my 18th birthday my dad gave me a carton of Camel Filters. Parents had a campground with a store so I got cigs for free while I lived at home. I think retail back then was $10 a carton. When I went to college I had to buy my own then. I think thats one of the reasons I switched to Marlboro reds. They were cheaper than Camels and most of my friends smoked Marlboro. Before I was 18 I ran trap lines in the winters and cut lawns and had a paper route so I always had money for smokes.
Looking back its hard to believe I had that much energy as a kid. I would get up at 4am and run my trap line, go to school then my mom would pick me up and we would go to town where my dad had a TV store and I would take off and run my paper route. Then when my dad close the store for the night I would go home and skin out the muskrats I caught in my traps so I could prep the pelts and sell them on the weekends. Wish I had that energy now
