Old cigarettes

[battyrat]

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When I started it was with Embassy No6 back in the early 80's.Think I must of tried anything going until I quit about 10 years ago. I did like the menthol More cigarettes, but they were more for special occasions. Many cigs I went for were filter less types like Navy cut in my early days of smoking.

Thinking about the filters in Cigarettes in the very early 80's,many of them were two part filters. The piece closest to the tobacco was rolled up corrugated paper. Any body else remember that?

Come to think of it coloured fags were popular with the girls at the nightclubs back in the 80's.

[zabadak]

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I smoked More menthol ones from time to time...

[Cartimand]

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Used to smoke Camel and Marlborough - but switched to Gauloises after getting a French girlfriend.

Gave up around 25 years ago (thank goodness).

[Arran]

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In 1971 cigarette packets had "WARNING by H.M. Government SMOKING CAN DAMAGE YOUR HEALTH" printed on them. When was this replaced by an EU Ministers health warning? When Britain leaves the EU will this result in a return of the H.M. Government health warning?

[Mulletino]

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I remember the local shop always had a jar full of ciggies they use to sell as singles, even to school kids.

My Mum always smoked Silk Cut and my Dad smoked Benson and Hedges. They both no longer smoke and are in their 70s.
I remember as a kid it was always a treat when Dad let us roll him a ciggy with his rolling machine (the kind with two rollers and plastic sheet), stock Father's Day gifts from us kids was always a packet of small cigars (Henri Winterman's).

My parents had those ashtrays on a stick that were popular in the 70s and all the adults smoked, our lounge artex ceiling had to be repainted every few years because of this. My grandaprents had cool mechanical ashtrays that us kids also liked playing with.

[Richard1978]

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At my Aunt's wedding there were wine glasses full of cigarettes at the reception. A little surprising for 1981, especially as hardly anyone in my family smokes.

[Twocky61]

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Also tubs of fags too for your party

[Twocky61]

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Kim cigarettes & Sobrani cocktail too

[Richard1978]

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In the 1980s Tomorrow's World had some odd cigarettes which only heated rather than burnt the tobacco, which I never saw or heard of again, though they remind me of an early e-cig.

[Pussywillow]

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Hope it's OK to bump this thread.

I found a site recently that had a lot about cigarette brands, especially their marketing & image.

I was also wondering when health warnings started to be put on packets, I'm guessing sometime in the mid 1970s.

Around this time low tar cigs seemed to become more popular.

I don't recall the health warnings coming in, but yes late 70's sounds about right.

As for the low tar fagsters, well I was smoking no 6 extra milds in a nice sky blue packet. Whatever would those yobs have thought of those eh?

I even remember something called 'NSM', New Smoking Material cigarettes that came out in the early 80's/late 70's. They were supposed to be a replacement for tobacco. They lasted literally two weeks on the market until it was realised they were just as poisonous as the real thing.

Bet no-one remembers them !

[Richard1978]

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Hope it's OK to bump this thread.

I found a site recently that had a lot about cigarette brands, especially their marketing & image.

I was also wondering when health warnings started to be put on packets, I'm guessing sometime in the mid 1970s.

Around this time low tar cigs seemed to become more popular.

[DSCOMAN]

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Went out with a girl once, she smoked More fags (long slim and brown they were) and drank Creme de menthe - Very classy ;-)

[Pussywillow]

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"more".....long thin brown cigarettes,,,,,very posh.

yep, remember them, a ldies cigarette if I recall rightly. Think you can still get 'em.

Anyone who loves fancy fags check out these http://natshermancigarettes.com/home.cfm

[fynger]

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"more".....long thin brown cigarettes,,,,,very posh.

[Littlelen]

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The 'Turks Head' (or the "stuffed dog" if you live locally to Tynemouth) has an old Woodbine's machine on the wall that used to charge 2/6' . I've often thought about taking some old coins down and seeing if the mechanism still works but they've probably already thought about that tbh. It's got about 18 packs of old cigs in it. My mam has 2 tatty miniature boxes of woodbines about an inch in size with plastic white cigs in. She never smoked herself so I don't know if they were a horrendous 1950s dolls accessory or if they were some kind of advertising gimmick from her childhood? My nanna smoked capstains full strength then Berkeley greens when the gangrene set in. OMG! True story!