[xrmusn]

I started on Luckies, later switched to Camels. All unfiltered straights of course.
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My ‘first’ smokes were Fatimas.....Guess us young Catholic School boys figured something named in ‘honor’ of “Our Lady of Fatima” couldn’t be all that ‘bad’.

Then to Luckies (the “BullsEye” was ‘cool’ to sport through your white T shirt sleeve).

Went to Camels and smoked them for 30 some years quitting ‘cold turkey’ in 1990 at 4 packs Camel Regular per day.

Also quit case + a day Budweiser (and all alcohol) at the same time, also ‘cold turkey’.

I was a real pleasure to be around for the first month or so, still a ‘no good SOB’, just a little worse..<: <:

[Ax]

I started off in the mid 50s swiping Chesterfields from my dad’s packs. In high school we experimented with practically every brand. Who remembers “Hit Parades,” “Spuds” or “Old Golds.” When I got to the Philippines in 1961, Chesterfields were the Filipinos’ favorites. We smuggled a lot of them off base to finance our San Miguel’s.

[boop]

I don’t know how people smoke unfiltered cigs. My grandpa smoked Camels and was always spitting out bits of tobacco.
I guess it was considered “unmanly” to smoke filtered cigs until the 1960s.