Do you remember What cigarettes were around when you were in your twenty's?

Question

Just to dispell the thought that I only reminise about food items.
Players Navy Cut, Weights, Woodbines, Craven A, Passing Cloud, Admiral, Strand, Turf, Senior Service, Nelson, Domino,
Sobrani Cocktail, Sobrani Black Russian, Camel, Marlboro, Peter Styvasent, Black Cat, ? Menthol, Turkish Ovals, Blue Circle, Gouloises (French ones made out of cabbage leaves).
To name the ones I remember.

Answer 1

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Sweet Caparol (canadian) Craven Plain, Turf , Minors, Park Drive, Nosegay, Raliegh, Lucky Strike, Chesterfield, Philip Morris, Old Gold, Kensitas. Gem, Gold Flake, Royaltys, Players Bachelor Most of the American ones I cadged off the GIs during the War Years. Finally Nosegay if you were hard up!

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Getting on for 80

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I salute you gov'nor you have a better memory than I considering you are nearly 20 years my senior.
You deserve the 10 points.

Answer 2

Lucky Strike, Pall Mall, Camel, Philip Morris, Kents and DuMaurier

Answer 3

John Player special (JPS)
you have named all the others and then some ive never heard of.

Answer 4

I remember players. And I remember fetching Embassy Number 6 Tipped for my dad when I was 6. That was well over 30 years ago.

Oh and Capstan Full strength

Answer 5

Player No.6, remember. The filters of todays cigarettes are longer!!! And I still can't forget that first Consulate taste.

Answer 6

my nans - they were free,

Answer 7

Park Drive, Gold Flake, Capstan both Medium and Full strength, Rothmans, Guards.
You're never alone with a Strand.
I can't remember if it was Churchill or Churchman no1.

Answer 8

No.6

Answer 9

Rothmans defo

Answer 10

Capstan Full Strength!
The first Ciggy the old man gave me!
Blew my bloody head off!

Answer 11

started on weights...really loved Sullivan Powell's turkish blend.......capstan full strength were nice...........gave up 20 years ago...........pipe for me now

Answer 12

Texan, Peter Stuyvesant, Gouloises,
Winstons.

My memory fails on the rest.

Answer 13

Park Drive........They killed my dad two days before is 50th Birthday !

Answer 14

Remember all of those, but you forgot the rich mans Woodbine--Park Drive, and good old Capstan Full Strength, they could make the top floor of the bus like a pea souper, you weren`t passive smoking, you were main lining.

Answer 15

In the U.S., some were Kools, Camel, Chesterfields, Salem, Marlboro's, Parliaments, Pall Mall, Tiperillos, and Winstons.

Answer 16

Hey you forgot .. Park Drive, they were as popular as Woodies, I think I've tried all the others that you've mentioned and you've brought back some happy memories for me what magical places fag shops were when I used to buy 5 Sullivan& Powell Turkish er...' for my mum!' ...Thanks

Answer 17

Players no 6
Players no10
Players special
Embassy
and Gold Leaf the first one I ever smoked
I don't smoke now

Answer 18

Slim Kings, No.6 (YUK!!!) and even worse, No.10 (Double YUK!!), Rothmans, JPS, Sobrani (mmmmm Pretty! all different colours), St Moritz (Very elegant methol - long, white and a decorative gold band round the tip), Styvesant, Embassy, and several that you've mentioned....and HOW cheap were they???!

Answer 19

There weren't any good ones. That's still true today.

We're all stupid about something, but most of us don't show it on our faces five minutes out of every thirty.

Answer 20

embassy, marlborough, dunhill, kensitas, menthol(consulate?)

Answer 21

I'm sure the first fags I bought where 13's and cost about 10p but is was 10 pennys and not pence lol

Answer 22

and Woodbines also
Woodbines Export
Airmen

I was always alone with a Strand

Answer 23

Marlboro
Winston
Salem
Kool
Pall Mall
Lucky Strikes
Camel
Taryton
Phillip Morris
New Ports
Benson and Hedges
Vice Roy
Virginia Slims

Answer 24

Chesterfields, Kents, Old Gold,(most of the present ones
were around then too) Philip Morris

Answer 25

Anyone say "True Blue" yet?

Answer 26

Your never alone with a Strand!

Gitane

Cadets

Answer 27

Thanks for the trip down memory lane! These are the ones I can think of but I know there were lots more!


Silk Cut (filter)
Consulate Menthol (filter)
Cadets (filter)
Piccadilly De Luxe (filter)
Cambridge (filter)
Embassy Gold (filter)
Embassy Regal (filter)
Sovereign (filter)
Sterling (filter)
Player's No 6 Virginia (filter)
Park Drive (filter)
Kensitas (filter)
Embassy (filter)
Gold Leaf Virginia (filter)
Player No 6 (plain)
Player's Weights (plain)
Albany (filter)
Woodbine (plain)
Player's No 10 Virginia (filter)
Guards Tipped (filter)
Benson & Hedges King Size (filter)
Senior Service (plain)
Player's Navy Cut (plain)
Park Drive (plain)
Rothman's King Size (filter)
Du Maurier (filter)
Capstone Full Strength (plain)
Craven A (filter & plain)
Everest (filter)
Camel (filter & Plain)
Marlboro (filter & plain)
Chocolate (confection)
Sweet (confection)
Camel (filter)
555
Accord
Benson & Hedges (filter)