It was a long and sordid adventure for me. Originally, I smoked Camel alights for many years. When I moved to Germany, however, the selection of familiar American brands was extremely limited (e.g. most places only had one variety of Camels and two types of Marlboros), and they just didn't taste like the American equivalent to me. So during the time I lived there I switched to filtered Lucky Strikes. I loved them, and to me they seemed like the quintessential Americana brand.
It still astounds me that despite that, I've never even once found Lucky Strikes here. Everywhere carries unfiltered and that's it. When politicians babble on about restoring American greatness, I firmly believe the only issue they're addressing is the availability and market share of Luckys.
Towards the end of my professional smoking career, I developed a terrible and long lasting chest cold, and my girlfriend took the initiative to start purchasing menthols (which I hated entirely) because they didn't hurt as much. From then until I finally started vaping I smoked Newport 100s.
What was really interesting to me at the time is, despite ONLY smoking menthols, menthol juices just didn't appeal to me at all! Every single juice I use now tastes so completely unlike any cigs I'd favored in the past. Give me a nice sweet RY4 over a delicious Newport, Lucky, or Camel any day...I really loved those favors, but now zi can't smoke even one because to my tongue it's no longer a tobacco taste, it's an ash and tar flavor.
With all that said, if I see old fashioned Lucky Strikes for sale at a convenience store one day, I'm in trouble...
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