the best cigarette

post getting-high, hands down

W bevvie, for me. The more alcoholic the bev, the more enjoyable each drag becomes in relation to the roughness of alcohol.

The post-getting high cig is awesome but also sort of overshadowed by the high and the compulsion, in my experience.

post-getting high cig for me is usually more of an "okay now I gotta make sure I don't smell like weed" obligation than something I really enjoy. it can be nice, though.

when i used to smoke, and i never smoked much, it was really enjoyable smoking while on eccies.

favorite cigarette = at home winding down from a night of drinking before going to sleep

er I should clarify that that's a night of, like, going out and drinking, partying, having fun. not sitting in my room with a bottle of whiskey.

after a big meal > drogas > coffee > drinking > the rest

good poll!

the last cigarette ever was kinda lame, by the time I was halfway down it I was like "I don't need this"

^real talk, so disappointing

It'd almost have to be. That's like how something's always in the last place you look.

When I was 18 I was driving in my beautiful '87 Camry when a drunk dude in a red Mustang ran a red light and totaled my car (though we were both uninjured). After the crash, I got out of the car and went over to ask if he was okay.

"Yeah, yeah, I'm fine... d'ya have a light?"

Goooood cigarette.

the "cigarette to celebrate having gone a week without a cigarette" is a pretty crappy one, too; you don't really enjoy it as much as you hoped you would, and then afterwards you feel all gross and disappointed.

shouldn't have clicked on this, damn.

there is no such thing as a last cigarette.

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holy shit kenan

I literally came here to post that exact panel!

like, I refreshed the page and went "how did my post already get here?!?"

Well, it's in the air lately.

this calls for a cigarette

the "cigarette to celebrate having gone a week without a cigarette" is a pretty crappy one, too; you don't really enjoy it as much as you hoped you would, and then afterwards you feel all gross and disappointed.

True. I am going to L.A. next week and have been contemplating smoking while I'm out there, after having not smoked at all since New Year's Eve. I feel like if I can keep it segregated from my everyday life, i.e. something I only do over there, I won't be tempted to start again in earnest. (To the extent that I'm addicted, it's psychological, not physiological. Very association-based.) But I also feel like I'm probably building it up too much and maybe I should just keep the streak alive.

on the crapper cigarette

jaymc i tried that and...it didn't work. i was like okay, one more after i get off the plane (coming home), one more before i go inside and REALLY resume my life, one before girlfreind comes home, etc. maybe youd be better, but it seems like unnecessary fire-playing. you should just not smoke i think if it's going well.

I gave up 5 years ago, but

The first cigarette of the day

was always the best. That little rush that it gives, every single time, just cannot be replicated with any other drug. God, my mouth is literally watering, just thinking about it.

Jaymc: LA doesn't seem like the city. When in Rome, avoid Phoenician behavior. If you can not smoke in Chicago, you can not smoke anywhere.

I don't smoke at the office, so mine is "the third cigarette of the day, which is at approximately 5:02 pm on the way to the bus stop" which I always love - all the rush of the first of the day, none of the "ugh I smoked too much yesterday and feel gross" feeling which I get as a chain smoker :P

Yesterday night when I was sneaking out for a post-coital cig I remembered how wonderful it was to lay in bed and have that cigarette. Boo to cleaner living!

yeah giving up patio smoke with coffee first thing in the morning would suck. it gives you a chance to kind of compose yourself for the day ahead on top of the rest.

xposts

The after-movie cigarette was always pretty good too.

Without some stimulants to go along with the first cig, it more often than not makes me want to go back to bed. So I'd count that as a "with coffee" cig.

yeah i did too in my breakdown of favorites

Yesterday night when I was sneaking out for a post-coital cig I remembered how wonderful it was to lay in bed and have that cigarette.

Now it's something that only happens in old movies. Like, that's how you know they did it, they're smoking in bed. Sharing a cig means they're in love, each having their own means the relationship is doomed.

oh yeah a post-action cig in bed is pretty much impossible for me now because a) not getting any, b) no smoking inside. the movies probably contribute to the mystique, but goddamn if a cigarette in bed after sex in a cheap motel isn't one of the best things ever.

No hard and fast rule, every situation can facilitate a lovely or a disgusting fag. With drink is the most reliable (and seeing as there's no 'with class A drugs').

especially if it's a sleazy "getting-to-know-you" smoke after hooking up w/ a trucker! lol xpost

They're all pretty great but I think it has to be the first cigarette (with coffee) of the day for me.

I think I'm going to try to quit at the end of this weekend though. I wish I could be a sometimes smoker but it's really all or nothing for me and I'm afraid it's been too long and I should quit while I'm ahead and it hasn't completely killed my health and/or looks.

I think the post-coital cig is way overrated, personally. For one thing, sometimes I'm a bit winded. More importantly, I'm quite sated already and need a moment. Maybe in 20 minutes or so.

Oh yeah though the post-coital in bed smoke was the best. sigh.

What, are you not allowed to smoke IN YOUR OWN BED in the US?

jaymc i tried that and...it didn't work. i was like okay, one more after i get off the plane (coming home), one more before i go inside and REALLY resume my life, one before girlfreind comes home, etc. maybe youd be better, but it seems like unnecessary fire-playing. you should just not smoke i think if it's going well.

Well before I quit altogether, I only smoked when I drank and usually only in social situations where I was likely to have more than a couple drinks. So that's all I was imagining doing out there, too. But you might be right, anyway.

I don't understand the post-coital smoke. It just feels like something to do with your hands at that point, plus I don't want to get up and brush my teeth again after. Practical considerations destroy the mystique, sorry.

post-meal hands down

and seeing as there's no 'with class A drugs'

Actually, "post-getting-high" applies equally to coke. But with coke for me it really IS a compulsion. Like, I need something to do for a few minutes so I don't grit my teeth or get way too drunk too fast.

Maybe I'm not getting good shit. :(

post-coital is great if its a shared smoke, but im going with my heart, post-hiii.

I'd also like to add to the list the "coming out of a job interview / exam / unpleasant appointment" cigarette

would vote for that

yeah it prob sounds pathetic to non-smokers but it's right before the post-big-meal smoke that im like "ahh life is pretty good ya know"
woha xps

Tie between the one before the gig and the one after.

The best cigarette I ever had was on my 19th birthday, November 3, 1992. I had just cast my first presidential vote and was killing time between classes at Memorial Union. I stepped outside and saw it snow for the first time on my birthday, these big potato-chip sized flakes. I stood there under the archway, smoked my Marlboro Medium, and breathed in the moment.

That sounds pretty amazing.

Ah. I was a Marlboro Medium man myself, once.

alright time for me to go out and enjoy my "leaving the office" cigarette...

Marlboro Medium for real

the last cigarette ever was kinda lame, by the time I was halfway down it I was like "I don't need this"

Yes! Which is why I hate getting drunk late at night: the last cig kills me.

A tie b/w the first of the day and the first after getting high.

"okay now I gotta make sure I don't smell like weed"

the post-toke cigarette is always fine but yea, it's pretty fucked up to smoke a cigarette in order to smell BETTER

i am 10 days w/o a cigarette btw, this poll is torturous

as a non-smoker, this thread kind of highlights the things that intrigue me about smoking. like i kind of wish that it a.) was healthy and b.) smelled better (like pipe tobacco or cloves or something), because it really does seem to go along with the other things that make make life so pleasurable in small ways, a la a nice beer, glass of wine, or brandy snifter or something.

i like how it's something you can do with your hands, and how it kind of forces you to take a deep breath, sit back and relax

I'm a cig torture porn fan, though. I'll lengthen the agony by waiting till I get to the office to have the first cigarette (which can take almost 90 minutes).

i like how it's something you can do with your hands, and how it kind of forces you to take a deep breath, sit back and relax

Tried masturbation?

while smoking? sounds dangerous

lol xpost

I'm a cig torture porn fan, though

i gather your meaning but the prasing here is quite o_0

like when listening to music -- i'm someone that has a hard time just sitting there listening to a record by myself, i need to be doing something drinking tea, a beer, or whatever. smoking would be a nice thing in this circumstance

i gather your meaning but the prasing here is quite o_0

haha – yeah, no Grifters style torture here.

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i have a scar from a cigarette burn on my arm that was not accidental.

not a germs burn, more like "white trash love dare" sort of thing

btw this probably goes without saying but of course the worst cigarette = the one you don't really feel like smoking but do anyway because you don't want the casual acquaintance who just bummed one off of you to feel like a total mooch

Not that I am a am a smoker but where is first cigarette after 14 hr plane ride?

That's pretty bad. I did it on Monday with a coworker who wanted to bitch about her boyfriend. "I don't really want this," I told her after two puffs.

(xpost)

There's a related one - the cig you don't want, but have because you're with another smoker who's just lit up, and you feel you kind of should out of politness or solidarity or whatever.

Not that I am a am a smoker but where is first cigarette after 14 hr plane ride?

Oversight. After-plane belongs on the list.

I voted for the "cigarette outside of a bar" because of the many and varied ways this has made my evenings more fun. Drunk ramblings with other patrons, mild harassment of passersby, especially those Angelenos who scoff at the smokers, and just the act of getting up and out of your seat at some point helps to keep you from getting too drunk, I've found. Far worse are the bars that have outside seating where you can smoke. I tend to get quite plowed at these establishments.

on the crapper cigarette

I used to do this ALL the time in college. Was awesome.

The "outside the bar" cig can totally be a great form of communion. It forces you to meet people you wouldn't meet if you were still inside the bar.

I met most of my best friends in college in the breezeway outside the dorm, on a nice wide chair-height slab of concrete that made up the front edge of a flower bed. "The Slab," we called it. As in, "Who's Mark?" "Oh, this guy I met on The Slab."

other less-than-classic cigarettes:

- the just-smoked, about-to-go-back-inside-to-the-party, oh-hey-look-there's-a-group-of-friends-I-didn't-know-were-here-coming-outside-for-a-smoke, might-as-well-join-them cigarette
- the cigarette smoked outside of the airport while waiting for a connecting flight (can be quite satisfying, but is canceled out by the hassle of immediately having to go back through security)
- the "oh shit, here comes that girl I like! I need an excuse to hang around here so that I can try to start a conversation!" cigarette (never as cool as you hope)
- the cigarette you have just lit when you suddenly realize that you really need to take a piss (self-explanatory)

This could be an equal and opposite poll

Another bad one: the cigarette at the bus stop, that you light because the saying goes that lighting a cig makes the bus come. And the bus doesn't come.

argh i keep clicking.

only reason i gave up was basically it stains my teeth like a motherfucker.

Vanity is as good a reason as any!

the time i quit before that it was cold hard ca$h; then i learnt to roll.... argggh

Another bad one: the cigarette at the bus stop, that you light because the saying goes that lighting a cig makes the bus come. And the bus doesn't come.

― kenan, Wednesday, March 11, 2009 5:54 PM (51 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Right. "Light another cigarette that I don't want? These things ain't free."

another recent entry from the annals of awkward cigarettes:

coming out of a Starbucks (shut up, I know). it is raining. an older woman is standing outside smoking under an umbrella, which she offers to share with me. I accept, but quickly find myself forced into an awkward conversation of the "and what do you do, young man?" variety. "well, at the moment I mostly I read a lot", "oh what sorts of books?" I have just started reading Zeno's Conscience, the first chapter of which is all about the protagonist's attempts to quit smoking. I find this a delightful coincidence and start to tell her about it. she looks at me like I'm an alien, says "well, enjoy your book; it sounds like a... really... great book" and walks off with her umbrella, leaving me standing there in the rain with my half-smoked cigarette.

"What sort of books do you read" is a question anyone asks at their own peril.

Another nominee for worst cigarette:

- Boss, co-worker, or anybody else in your life who comes upon you just as you are about to light up, and says "Okay, I'll wait...go ahead."

And then stands there.

Seriously? You want one? No? Fuck off, and I'll talk to you in five minutes. Ugh.

i just paid NINE DOLLARS for a pack of cigs. oof. they went up again today in massachusetts. what the hell is my breaking point? i must be a rockefeller or something. I'M NOT A ROCKEFELLER.

^^ They went up again in California, too. 7-11 is charging $7 a pack, Walgreens is up to $10 for two packs. Seriously considering cutting down -- I'm at a pack and a half a day right now. I think that might just be a state tax increase, though there's supposed to be a federal tax increase of 66 cents a pack that goes into effect April 1.

"Im going to kill someone if I don't have a cigarette" cigarette (that's how I feel when I get off a plane) >> cigarette w/alcohol >> first of the day

worst cigarette: the cigarette you smoke when you are sick with a cold or flu and you know it will prompt at least 15 minutes of hacking cough, or worse, prevent you from sleeping straight for an hour, but fuck, you want a cigarette.

I feel bad bumming smokes off ppl at shows now... I should give them 50 cents

i always felt strange when people try to buy cigarettes off me. like, i am not about to have a cash transaction over a single cigarette.

if you take more than 3 or 4 cigarettes from me, buy me a drink. if you bum smokes all night, buy me a pack next week. that is basically how i break in down to an extent.

It was a little p/a, but I'd steal cigarettes from somebody's pack when they got up and slip a quarter down into the cellophane.

worst cigarette: the cigarette you smoke when you are sick with a cold or flu and you know it will prompt at least 15 minutes of hacking cough, or worse, prevent you from sleeping straight for an hour, but fuck, you want a cigarette.

OMG YES.

^^ this is the precise reason why i just "quit" -- i was sick with the flu for 5 days and just couldn't even deal with the IDEA of smoking a cigarette

I broke a 10 year smoking habit by getting tonsillitis, smoking was like inhaling glass shards

after about 7 years of nonsmoking I was able to start having the occasional cig without going back to full blown smoking, it is a beautiful thing

i always felt strange when people try to buy cigarettes off me. like, i am not about to have a cash transaction over a single cigarette.

If it's someone I know, I don't have a problem, but when it's some random stranger walking by on the street that appears perfectly capable of purchasing their own pack, I offer to give them directions to the nearest store (usually a block away).

I've been so tempted to smoke just one to end my streak just so I wouldn't have a streak to maintain anymore.

I had a really bad flu last year and didn't smoke for two days - the flu lasted 2 weeks - but that's the longest I've gone without smoking in 16 years.

I offer to give them directions to the nearest store (usually a block away)

In Austin there was a tobacco store that had a coffee mug full of fresh smokes you could buy individually, a quarter each. More places should have that.

yo can i get a loosey

I think the physical withdrawal only lasts 1 or 2 days - after that it's all psychological

in the 70s my dad told me stores used to sell "loosies" - single cigarettes. not sure when they stopped doing that but man that would be so awesome, both for bummers and bummees. I don't think they can do it legally though due to tax stamps on packs and all that.

I'd be worried I was buying a sherm.

xp ahoy

boy you guys luv cigarettes

you can still get loosies in NY some places

now I feel like I can bum a cigarette off you with impunity if I see you at a show elmo

Yeah, I think it was illegal at that place in Austin, but they did it anyway. All kinds of shit's illegal in Texas. You can't sell dildos, either. (Well, the law is still on the books, but it's unenforceable at the moment, so... yay progress.)

unenforceable penal code

ed, if you succeed, it means that i have failed. ;_;

boy you guys luv cigarettes

And hate them. It's a metaphor for life, man.

when it's some random stranger walking by on the street that appears perfectly capable of purchasing their own pack, I offer to give them directions to the nearest store (usually a block away).

Boo to that. Giving out cigarettes to random people who asked was one of my favorite things about being a smoker -- they were usually super-grateful, and it was nice to have that moment of communion. Plus, there's the karmic aspect of it that I liked, knowing that I might one day be in their shoes.

hahaha sorry for the vote of no confidence elmo

one of the things that kept me from going back to smoking was a smug bandmate who predicted "you'll be back" when I told him I had quit

every once in a great while my attitude problem works in my favor

Yay karma, boo people bumming a smoke they KNOW cost $8 for a pack. Especially... IN THIS ECONOMY.

It's ok, I have no problem saying no.

I hought this was going to be about brands. Sadly the only brand I know is Marlboro Lights. I quit but... well, I have one smoke every evening around ten-ish with my husband in the "smoking room." We don't smoke in the house as it stinks up the place and it's not good to smoke around kids. Anyhow I'm not and never was a big smoker. Blablablabladenialblablablabla. Anyway I have/had the best smokes in the evening. When I went to photograph this, I think I smoked half a pack in two hours. I just looooooooooove smoking when I'm walking, esp in the evening. Looked cool/daft w a cig hanging from my lips and trying to juggle a Canon 1000D.

I always expect my friends or people I like to be (ex-)smokers. They usually are.

People can/could bum cigs from me. I would have given one... strangely they never asked. My husband does get the occasional guy asking for one. Sometimes he'll give one. Depending on the likeability (?) of the person in question.

You could get Camel loosies at the deli I used to walk past in Jersey City, but a lot of places only offer menthols loose, if they offer anything. Yeah, it's illegal.

Sadly the only brand I know is Marlboro Lights

Oh honey. That is sad. Hugglez.

hey elmo are you going to the six finger satellite show in april? my band's opening and we can hang whether you come bearing cigarettes or not

The cigarette outside the bar on the sidewalk

This can be excellent if you're a bit bored with the company inside, or just not feeling particularly sociable or whatever, as it allows you a chance to be alone with your thoughts for a few minutes before entering recharged.

Kenan, I know! My mom smoked Dunhills. She looked so fucking cool. Red painted nails, red lips and a Dunhill dangling from her perfect lips. She was such a hardcore smoker, she'd stand up in the middle of the night to have a smoke. Of course now she's such a hatah. Typical.

I told my OBGYN I was going to smoke when I quit bf-ing. He started bombarding me with "do you know how dangerous it is... " I really wanted to roll my eyes and say: "Do you think I'm from fucking mars? Do I look like I'm fliping alien or something? BTW did you realize that obesity is also dangerous?"

I just looooooooooove smoking when I'm walking

Really? I never do that, unless it's one of those sad maintenance smokes, like the one outside the airport. It's like walking and relaxing at the same time, does not work.

when I was in the UK I bought dunhills... love the subtle british health warnings SMOKING KILLS in 84 pt type

natural american spirit yellow = favored brand for years

I told my OBGYN I was going to smoke when I quit bf-ing.

I fail to see the connection. ;)

I predict that one day in the UK they will just wrap packs of cigarettes in the blackened lung tissue of dead smokers

xpost haha Liberation dude! I never smoked during pregnancy. Friend of mine in knitting class did however. She'd stand outside with a coffee in one hand and a cigarette in the other. All her kids are perfectly healthy but y'know it still irked me somewhat. That said, I didn't say anything.

EdwardIII we get the PIXORS of BLACK LUNGS.

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when I quit smoking I was never a hater, I don't get that

maybe it's some psychological trick people have to do to keep themselves off the stuff

I'm not really a smoker but sometimes enjoy a smoke. Usually either when I'm out drinking and somebody offers me a smoke and invites me outside with them, or sometimes like after I've done something exhausting like playing a gig or cleaning the house or playing a game of ultimate frisbee or whatever. Maybe it's more the moment I like than the smoke.

when I was in the UK I bought dunhills

I smoked Gauloises for a year or so, because the way they were taxed, they we're much more than a pack of Camels. Now they don't even sell them in the US. I don't miss sitting in the park smoking Gauloises and reading Sartre, dressed in black, but I guess it's something to say you once did. :/

ed3: yes! webmail me details on the show

I have to admit I do judge pregger women who smoke

at least I keep it to myself

Yeah, that's horrible stuff. I feel bad smoking around my cat without the windows open.

for some reason san Francisco is the worst place for strangers bumming cigarettes off of you. i don't know why this is but i go through so many packs there. i usually never turn people down.

i thought this thread was gonna be about the actual "best" cig, and even though i don't do filterless anymore i was gonna say:

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xps
haha i still smoke gauloises blondes, people look at the pack and think they're going to be gitanes-esque filterless mentalism when actually they're... the same strength as a marlboro light? only better-tasting?

currently am not smoking due to wisdom tooth horror, decided i should quit at least until i know if i'm having an op or not (shouldn't smoke after having a tooth out, dentist says). o i miss the goodnight cigarette.

mmmmmm, i loved those. and i loved my luckys too. my lungs didn't though.

I love the Dunhill's, both blue and red. SOMETIMES if anyone comes to visit me from another country, they bring me a carton. And I am very happy.

Unfiltered Luckies do it for me, but that's another thread.

xpost with Scott, who understand Luckies.

i once spent a day with my friend mary when she was pregnant and living some distance away, so i didn't get to see her all that often. it was during an outdoor party and she smoked the ENTIRE time. i was appalled. later i learned that she had been totally abstained during the course of her pregnancy but allowed herself one no-guilt smoking day, because she wanted to enjoy herself at the party as a smoker.

I only get the buzz from the First Cigarette Of The Day

but I do have a soft spot for smoking while drunk on the sidewalk during/after shows

also: mmm Lucky Strikes

They're fucking TOASTED!

I smoked lucky strikes for a while but they were just a gateway to filterless camels for me

don't think I could take a single drag off one now but man did my 18yo lungs love 'em, it was like hitting on an exhaust pipe

I loved Lucky Strikes unfiltered - but I'd always get tobacco in my teeth ... American Spirits blue for me now.

btw anybody who is trying to quit smoking and is still reading this thread is mental

clear out now

Edward, I'm a masochist. Actually I quit smoking half a pack per day. I smoke one per day. I think it's some fucked up way to prove I can control myself. Or maybe I'm just in denial. hahahahahahaha

They actually recommend smokers who are pregnant but have difficulty abstaining to smoke as little as possible but still smoke. *shrug* Y'know, my mom smoked while pregnant. A good lesson not to. heehee. But I was appalled if only because she fucking reprimanded me for eating too much SUGAR while pregnant. WTF! "But I only smoked a little!" (She was also 19. And she also ate lots of raw meat... and of course got toxoplasmosis. Hmmm.)

hahahahahahaha -> cackling mentally

xxpost "Anybody don't want to get shot, clear on out the back."

When my mom still used to live here and I came in the shop after I had a smoke, she'd wave the smell away in this tututut way. Christ. Mom, the kids at school used to give me shit for you smoking. "Do your parents smoke." said while turning their nose away.

I miss smoking Lucky Lights. That's another taste of my freshman year at school.

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hahahaha I'm more worried about her MORANIC BRANE.

it's okay, that's a spliff

it mellows out the tension of the constant jackhammering

I was thinking the same.

Love the van on the right btw

I'd be worried I was buying a sherm.

But who doesn't love a Sherm?

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this is going to turn into a cig pr0n thread isn't it

shermans are a little too mild for me.

My favorites are the menthol, because they're not full-on kool, it's just a nice hint of mint that still tastes like a cigarette.

Kamels

yeah the sherman menthols are probably the only ones I'd bother with, though no one I know smokes them. I'm sure my lack of appreciation for the subtlety of shermans comes from having smoked lucky non-filters for a year, after smoking full-flavor dunhills and those black clove cigarettes - pack a day.

I am of two minds about Kamels.

Great design:

http://www.incompetech.com/gallimaufry/cigarette/kamel_red.jpg

Piss-poor design:

http://www.dottyparker.com/blog/images/kamel.jpg

Yes, I buy cigarettes for the box. What, you don't ever buy wine for the label?

Did you ever buy those cigarettes - forget the brand - that were rainbow colored? I think they had an attractive box, but I forget what it looked like.

pretty sure nat sherman makes those, can't remember the name atm though

Nat Sherman Fantasia?

https://secure.bogarts.com.au/images/P/Nat%20Sherman%20USA%20Fantasia_2.jpg

yeah, that sounds right

I used to get Nat Sherman MCDs occasionally, just cuz they looked so classy and they were only a little more than the American Spirit blues that I normally smoked. but now I mostly stick to the American Spirits, or Camel Wides if I can't find them.

I roll. Drum or better, usually Drum.

menthol, you guys are mental! i tried. some japanese girl left a pack. ACK! like inhaling healthy air!

nath, that's why the Nat Sherman menthols are pretty good. They don't taste like other menthols at all.

btw, not to alienate anyone, but I really hate American Spirits. The Indian on the box is goofy at best, maybe not borderline offensive, certainly a bit clueless. "Wahey, lookit us! We're all natural and stuff. If you smoke another brand, a single tear rolls down this Indian's cheek."

And they taste like dirt.

ah ok.

i love japanese marlboro lights cause they come in soft packs. only shitty thing is that they are all white, which looks kinda weird.

yes the fantasias!

also re: American Spirits

I'm all for well-cured tobacco with no additives, but not tobacco with the taste and character of Arizona sand. Let's have some terroir up in this bitch.

But back to the thread: I finally voted, for alcoholic beverage. No two vices mix as seamlessly. Second choice: post-prandial.

when summer first kicks in: beer, crisps, cigarette. can't be beat.

A distributor dumped a bunch of American Spirits and Dunhills on me at the Bar & Nightclub Convention - all terrible. I had full-flavor and medium AmSpirits, I can't even imagine what smoking a light is like.

alas, i fell for the american spirit publicity juggernaut years ago. i smoke the red packs now. the organics. they are slightly better/stronger than the blues. BUT NINE DOLLARS A PACK!!! ay yi yi, i might have to dig out my nicotine gum and have another go at the straight and narrow.

also, i totally got used to the slow burn of american spirits. they take forever to smoke, so psychologically i tell myself that i am better off since i only smoke about half the cigarette before putting it out.

um, does anyone here buy cigs on-line? a carton of 555's for 24 bucks seems too good to be true, but i might consider this option before i consider my old nicotine gum:

http://www.smokin4free.com/555.html

Oh man I miss boutique brands. But god almighty, the prices.

That's like a 1990 price on 555's! Good tip. I never thought to buy online.

i just wonder how reliable the sites are. or if i will end up giving my credit card number to the russian mafia...

great thread

xpost Just don't use your "good" credit card, use the one with the $500 limit.

There is no option for "The I Am Having Emotions Cigarette" so I voted near-miss-car-wreck as it was closest.

I don't find the cigarette at times of extreme emotion to be particularly nice. Adrenaline+nicotine isn't a very good combination, it leads to jitteryness. I still have one though.

As a balm for the nerves, nothin' beats that ol' fashioned morphine.

Even before I smoked, I'd reach for one in times of stress. Like before I went in to do an interview, I'd buy some. I still remember doing that before I went to interview Steve Wynn. I once made the horrible mistake of smoking too much before a gig. I got shivers and sweat like hell. I could only stand against the wall.

I interviewed Adam Clayton back when he smoked about 60 a day and kept pace with him for an hour, after which I felt like one of those kids whose dad makes him chainsmoke until he throws up as a deterrent. (Do dads do this anymore?) Nowadays, it's rare you get to smoke at all under those circumstances so my vote would be for the first one I have on the street after a difficult interview. After a long flight is also classic, unless the person you're travelling with doesn't smoke and has to stand there looking impatient and/or disgusted.

"the just-smoked, about-to-go-back-inside-to-the-party, oh-hey-look-there's-a-group-of-friends-I-didn't-know-were-here-coming-outside-for-a-smoke, might-as-well-join-them cigarette" is otm - always terrible

camel filters are close to 4 dollars a pack here now!!! a gentleman in the bar yesterday was loudly blaming obama.

patronizing those places that are frequented by promo giveaway cigarette vendors= never buying a cigarette again if you keep your habit casual

oh jesus not 4 dollars

nothing beats a 'drunk as fckuck at a rooftop barbeque party wit your homies' cigarette

i just wonder how reliable the sites are. or if i will end up giving my credit card number to the russian mafia...

― scott seward, Thursday, 12 March 2009 00:17 (21 hours ago) Permalink

definitely proceed with caution. A couple guys I work with got burned by one of those sites.

aren't there "fake" cigarettes? must be the case. (i think of this cause my best friend bought fake meds for her son. nearly died cause of it. she didn't realize they were fake until the doctor at the hospital told her.)

Well they put in a few orders and eveything was cool until one time they got triple charged and nothing was sent. The place closed up shop and bounced or something.

During NPS in 2005 I chain smoked for like a week and it fucked up some of my later performances

NPS? Non parental sex?

National Poetry Slam

I was in Waikiki a month ago, and a Japanese man traded me one of his cigs for an "American Cigarette", (Jokes on him, I smoke cloves) anyway he gave me this thing called a "Cabin" and it burnt away in about sixty seconds. Apparently there is no time to fuck around smoking a cigarette in Japan.

Oh, and def post-hi, although pre and post-gig are nice too

lol @ japanese cigs being super awesome efficient.

Well, gotta go fast as you can smoke almost nowhere. we were smoking in some high end street and some dude picked up our cigbut (sp?). only later did we realize we weren't allowed to smoke on said street. .roffle

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That's about right, yeah.

after-movie cigarette way underrated, according to these results

the post-semester, still got shit on my mind cigarette

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the jazz cigarette?