Just picturing the box in my mind makes me want a cigarette. Opening the box, pulling out the foil, the smell of the unburnt tobacco. Luckily I live in Canada now where they hide cigarettes from view at all the stores. 20 years quit.
Man, did you have to go so far as the foil and the smelling? I haven't wanted a Red in...I don't know how long, it's usually only when I'm drunk. But here I am, stone cold sober, on the shitter, jonesing for a cigarette. Lol. Seriously tho, that's just meanš¤£
So did my mother. It was a big deal for her when she switched to filtered Parliaments. She died of two separate cancers, both most likely due to tobacco.
Yep, my dad was a PM unfiltered guy, also. When he was out, he would just rip the filters off of mom's Winston 100's.
I smoked Parliament or True Blue 100's until they were gone, then switched to the cheap Pall Mall Blue filtered.
22 yrs smoked, quit within a week of taking up vaping 12 yrs ago. I've almost quit that, now.
I quit in 2017 as well. The last one I smoked was at my sisterās baby shower when she was pregnant with my niece. Not that me smoking has anything to do with any of that but thatās why itās notable.
Same. I quit in 2007. Good for you to quit. My parents smoked all their lives and both died of lung cancer so I really had no choice, but all the second hand smoke I inhaled. Iām still worried.
When I was a kid, (I'm 67 now) if there was a discarded pack laying on the ground, you could step on it, punch one of your buddy's and declare "lucky strike, no strike back ".
I was working at a grocery store when I was 15. They put me as the cashier at the cigarette counter. I took a pack of lucky strikes unfiltered as the first I ever smoked. I found it to be quite rough and never revisited it.
I used to buy Virginia Slims from one of these in high school but if these were my only choices I'd take the Salems. There was something satisfying about the ker chunk noise of pulling the knob and having your pack pop out.
Marlboro. My dad smoked Salem. My mom smoked Winston.
Does anyone remember this song?:
"Winstons taste bad like the one I just I just had, no filter, no flavor, tastes like toilet paper"
I started with Marlboro Reds, but then I tried Doral, Cambridge, Seneca (an upstate NY brand you could only buy on the reservation), and back to Marlboro Red (Special Blend) 100s. I quit my pack a day habit in 2016.
I never really smoked. The Lucky Strikes in the white package with the red bullseye were what my Dad smoked from 9years old to the day they killed him at 54. My cousin and I stoled some and got SICKER THAN A DOG and I never smoked again. š
When I was around 7, my dad caught me playing "movie star" with a ciggie out of the ash tray. He went out to his truck & found an OLD nickel cigar that had been wedged up against the windshield for at least two years. Came back in, lit it up.......& made me smoke it. Had about 3 good hits.....then chundered all over the wood floor. Mom was furious.
Last time I smoked, now 70.
This bar/club I go to still has one of these machines (private club so you can still smoke inside).. it still only takes quarters. I get a good laugh when it's all quiet and someone walks over and proceeds to drop in $12 in quarters lol
I started smoking when I was 12. I'd sneak a few Vantage out of my mother's purse. I went through several brands throughout my life but was smoking whatever was the cheapest light 100s I could get when I quit in 2016.Ā
My first 18 years of existence was second hand from my dad, got my daily fix free! After enlisting, I had to buy my own. Kentās were on clearance, $1.50 at the military commissary for my first carton. I smoked many brands over the decades, unfiltered and filtered Chesterfield, Players, Marlboro, Kools, and then generics and sub-generics as the sin tax kept pushing up the price. After fifty plus years I stopped, over a year ago for economic reasons. Nicotine withdrawal was only slightly annoying as I took Wellbutrin for a week before and after. I say stopped not quit because every few hours since I stopped I feel like smoking, but that habitual party goes away in a moment.
As a kid, I always wondered why sales to minors were prohibited. It said it right in the machine.
The poor minors probably worked harder than anybody, digging up all the minerals and stuff we needed for daily life!
Marlboro Lights, until I got sent to Korea then it was the reds because they didnāt have lights at the PX. (I also kept a pack of Korean āPine Treeā cigarettes for whenever mooches would hit me up!š) Quit 20 years ago.
Of this grouping... Winston. Those and Winston Lights were go tos for me. I also liked Old Gold, Pall Mall and Lucky Strike filters. Camel, Camel lights or Marlboro in a pinch. But never Marlboro lights -- awful. Quit in 1998 for good.
Dad smoked Parliament for 40 years (I was never a fan). Died from COPD 15 years ago but managed to live to 76.
Before I finally quit for good, I smoked Shermans. And no, not the drugged ones, just plain old Shermans. I had convinced myself that they werenāt as bad as regular cigarettes. Letās face it, they were bad too.
Quitting smoking was one of the hardest things Iāve ever done and also the greatest gift that I gave myself.
How do smokers even afford those damn cigs these days???
Started in HS in 1987 on Pall Mall, Luckies, or Camel straights. Bought them from a machine at work (bussing tables) for five quarters. Figured out quick if you sat down theyād yell but if you lit up it was fine. Eventually moved to Camel filters, then Winston lights when they killed the Camel Cash, then Marb ultralights and finally quit for good in 2012. Averaged two packs a day for 25 years. Currently living with COPD and 65% lung capacity so yeah. š¬
When I was in Germany around 2010 these machines were everywhere, on base the only option I cared for from the machine was lucky strike, but anywhere else they had chesterfields. When I came home it was seneca just for the price but eventually I figured Iām just snuffing myself with these things and decided to spring for something better. I kinda bounced back and forth between camels, and checkers for a while and eventually settled on Winstonās.
The smartest thing I didn't do was start smoking. I watched my dad literally kill himself with cigarettes and die at age 63. I've already outlived him.
All my friends smoked Marlboros, but I liked Old Gold, which I donāt see here. They were discontinued in the 1970s, IIRC. I recognize all the shown brands.
Camel Lights when I quit, but I tried quite a few brands over the years. My favorite was to walk up to a friend and whip out the pack and say thereās only one way to play itā¦and it was a pack of Kools.
Oh to be young and dumb again.
Virginia Slim Lights 120 menthol
Not mine but mom's. It's what she gave money for when she made me run in to the store to buy them on the way home from picking me up from elementary school.
Pall Mall 3 packs a day. Then I got a job at the Dearborn Assembly Plant and switched to Kools. The brothers, especially Big Al, taught me the way. Then I started my apprenticeship and quit smoking that was 51 years ago
I like Marlboro and LS, but I was never serious. A here and there. Never tried Winston since they were gone by the time I was old enough. I remember them mostly from 80s ads in Sports Illustrated and at sports stadiums
The local Shoneys still had one of these suckers in the front & you betcha all the kids in the neighborhood would make distractions while the other delinquents would be feeding the machine as fast as they could.
Djarum, because I ran with that crowd. Then Lucky Strikes for a hot minute. Quit in college, in my 40s now. Tried smoking a cigar on Fatherās Day and spit up like a baby. Iām glad to have aged out of some things.
Marlboro Reds box. When I used to smoke.
Just picturing the box in my mind makes me want a cigarette. Opening the box, pulling out the foil, the smell of the unburnt tobacco. Luckily I live in Canada now where they hide cigarettes from view at all the stores. 20 years quit.
Man, did you have to go so far as the foil and the smelling? I haven't wanted a Red in...I don't know how long, it's usually only when I'm drunk. But here I am, stone cold sober, on the shitter, jonesing for a cigarette. Lol. Seriously tho, that's just meanš¤£
My father smoked Pall Mall - unfiltered. We die like real men!
My pops was Pall Mall or Chesterfield
Chesterfields, in a pinch. My Dad had PX privileges and a carton was $1.50 in the 1950s. A stroke got him at the end.
In a foxhole 25 year old pall Malls
C,s or K s ?
My dad and both my grandparents, too. Those things would make your head buzz.
Mine too. 2 packs/day for 55 years. Aneurysm made him quit but his lungs were and are annoyingly fine. *In hoc signo vinces*.
Most remarkable that he was able to quit after smoking for so long. IHSV, indeed!
So did my mother. It was a big deal for her when she switched to filtered Parliaments. She died of two separate cancers, both most likely due to tobacco.
Thatās what I was smoking when I quit. My gramps rolled his own
Yep, my dad was a PM unfiltered guy, also. When he was out, he would just rip the filters off of mom's Winston 100's. I smoked Parliament or True Blue 100's until they were gone, then switched to the cheap Pall Mall Blue filtered. 22 yrs smoked, quit within a week of taking up vaping 12 yrs ago. I've almost quit that, now.
Camel Lights.
Hard Pack
Tap tap tap to pack it down before ripping open the seal.
Got in a big argument with a date over this...I packed and she didn't. "Don't ever pack my smokes again!"
Marlboro Lights 100s in a box. Because if you donāt specify they try to give you that damn soft pack. I quit in 2017.
I quit in 2017 as well. The last one I smoked was at my sisterās baby shower when she was pregnant with my niece. Not that me smoking has anything to do with any of that but thatās why itās notable.
Same. I quit in 2007. Good for you to quit. My parents smoked all their lives and both died of lung cancer so I really had no choice, but all the second hand smoke I inhaled. Iām still worried.
LSMFT, Lucky Strike Means Fine Tobacco
When I was a kid, (I'm 67 now) if there was a discarded pack laying on the ground, you could step on it, punch one of your buddy's and declare "lucky strike, no strike back ".
Ha! We did that in Massachusetts too (also 67). Just noticed your name. Iām in Pittsburgh now too. š
It's Toasted.
I was working at a grocery store when I was 15. They put me as the cashier at the cigarette counter. I took a pack of lucky strikes unfiltered as the first I ever smoked. I found it to be quite rough and never revisited it.
Marlboro, then Pall Mall. 35 years. Quit March 3rd of this year.
Benson and Hedgesā¦..cause you had to hide in the hedges to smoke them at school.
Parliments aka P-funks.
Oh, P-funks...how I miss you so.
Never put the wrong end in mouth, recessed filter, beeyatch!!!
For the short time that I smoked cigarettes, I preferred straight Camels or Luckys. Then I switched to a pipe.
I used to buy Virginia Slims from one of these in high school but if these were my only choices I'd take the Salems. There was something satisfying about the ker chunk noise of pulling the knob and having your pack pop out.
The problem was when the machine wouldnāt take your last quarter.
I quit 24 years ago but back then I was always chasing that Camel Cash and I really liked those Camel Wide Lights.
Cowboy Killers-Marlboro Reds Quit in 1994
American Spirit full flavor. I quit twelve years ago.
Marlboro Reds and then Marlboro Lights.
Marlboro. My dad smoked Salem. My mom smoked Winston. Does anyone remember this song?: "Winstons taste bad like the one I just I just had, no filter, no flavor, tastes like toilet paper"
Dad smoked Kent
Yup . I remember going into the store while he waited in the car. I would get him Kent King Size.
Newport. Because no one would hit you up for one
Started with Marlboroās, then later Marlboro Light 100ās.
Pall Mall (blue)
My mom smoked Camels. RIP
Me being old means I have found it disgusting for a long time.
I started with Marlboro Reds, but then I tried Doral, Cambridge, Seneca (an upstate NY brand you could only buy on the reservation), and back to Marlboro Red (Special Blend) 100s. I quit my pack a day habit in 2016.
Larks, way back
Marlboro light 100ās , hard pack
I loved my Newports
The candy ones. š
Viceroy "I'd rather fight than switch"
I believe that was Tareyton
Those stupid adsā¦
They could knock a strong man unconscious.
3 quarters at any nearby restaurant or bowling alley and they're yours!
Marlboro Light 100ās. Usually soft pack, box seemed harsher to me somehow. Quit 6 years ago, still miss it.
Lucky Strike
Lucky strike means fine tobacco.
I never really smoked. The Lucky Strikes in the white package with the red bullseye were what my Dad smoked from 9years old to the day they killed him at 54. My cousin and I stoled some and got SICKER THAN A DOG and I never smoked again. š
When I was around 7, my dad caught me playing "movie star" with a ciggie out of the ash tray. He went out to his truck & found an OLD nickel cigar that had been wedged up against the windshield for at least two years. Came back in, lit it up.......& made me smoke it. Had about 3 good hits.....then chundered all over the wood floor. Mom was furious. Last time I smoked, now 70.
Oh, by the way.....thanks Dad.
ā¤ļøš It worked. Good dad I say. š
This bar/club I go to still has one of these machines (private club so you can still smoke inside).. it still only takes quarters. I get a good laugh when it's all quiet and someone walks over and proceeds to drop in $12 in quarters lol
Marlboro light. Quit nearly 30 years ago then ended up working for the company who makes half of those in the display (RJRTC).
I started smoking when I was 12. I'd sneak a few Vantage out of my mother's purse. I went through several brands throughout my life but was smoking whatever was the cheapest light 100s I could get when I quit in 2016.Ā
I liked camel wides, Winston before they changed.
Winston. Soft pack. Winston tastes good, like a cigarette should
Oh dark mother once again I suckle at your smoky teat. Marlboro light 100ās oh how I miss them.
Winston and then I switched to Antonio &Cleopatra cigarettes (very hard to get) about a year before I quit cold turkey.
35 cents?? Newport I canāt remember how much they were when I started in the 80ās but they were $14 when I quit.
Winston lights. Still is my brand
My grandmother smoked Winstonās. My stepdad smoked More. I smoked Marlboro lights but quit in 2015. Unfortunately, smoking took out my grandmother.
Camel non-filtered
My first 18 years of existence was second hand from my dad, got my daily fix free! After enlisting, I had to buy my own. Kentās were on clearance, $1.50 at the military commissary for my first carton. I smoked many brands over the decades, unfiltered and filtered Chesterfield, Players, Marlboro, Kools, and then generics and sub-generics as the sin tax kept pushing up the price. After fifty plus years I stopped, over a year ago for economic reasons. Nicotine withdrawal was only slightly annoying as I took Wellbutrin for a week before and after. I say stopped not quit because every few hours since I stopped I feel like smoking, but that habitual party goes away in a moment.
DuMaurier Light Kings
I quit 22 years ago
I'm Canadian.
Kools
As a kid, I always wondered why sales to minors were prohibited. It said it right in the machine. The poor minors probably worked harder than anybody, digging up all the minerals and stuff we needed for daily life!
My dad smoke anything cheap. I smoked Malboro red for a long time.
Benson and hedges. But if I was at this machine - Iād have to go with a pack of luckys
Both my parents were Marlboro Lights. Honestly a miracle I never smoked.
I wasn't the smoker, Mom was, but she always sent me to use this machine to buy her Kools.
Kent with the Microneefinger.
Berkeley's cos they where huge.
Black and whites. "Smokes for blokes!" I still remember the ad. But they were the cheapest smokes and I was 16. Didn't get a lot of pocket money.
I just love em' all. Mmmm, it smells like mom.
marlboro , marlboro menthol and finally newports..quit in 2009 .. bought an njoy ecig from 711 and quit in a week..
Oh God, I remember my mamaw used to smoke Winston gold 100's. Shit was awful
My dad smoked Winchester. My grandma taryton 100s. I never smoked.
When I was 6 or so, I pulled a handle and a box came out. My mom wouldn't let me keep them!
Camels. A fine blend of Turkish and Oriental tobaccos.
Marlboro Lights, until I got sent to Korea then it was the reds because they didnāt have lights at the PX. (I also kept a pack of Korean āPine Treeā cigarettes for whenever mooches would hit me up!š) Quit 20 years ago.
Camel Filters
I canāt believe I used to smoke. Quit in 06. But it was camel lights. Or the new Turkish gold. Well, they were new at the time.
Of this grouping... Winston. Those and Winston Lights were go tos for me. I also liked Old Gold, Pall Mall and Lucky Strike filters. Camel, Camel lights or Marlboro in a pinch. But never Marlboro lights -- awful. Quit in 1998 for good. Dad smoked Parliament for 40 years (I was never a fan). Died from COPD 15 years ago but managed to live to 76.
These were usually near the payphones and I hope future museums keep this in their displays.
Marlboro reds, then lights, then I rolled my own, then I quit. That took 27 years.
Before I finally quit for good, I smoked Shermans. And no, not the drugged ones, just plain old Shermans. I had convinced myself that they werenāt as bad as regular cigarettes. Letās face it, they were bad too. Quitting smoking was one of the hardest things Iāve ever done and also the greatest gift that I gave myself. How do smokers even afford those damn cigs these days???
Depends on the year, but I started smoking Marlboroās in about 1974
Camel Filters/Pall Mall
When I quit, Camel Filters.
My brand then Marlboro reds..brand today Marlboro Special Select. Smoking 42 years.
Unfiltered camel or lucky strike
Marlboro Lights
Started in HS in 1987 on Pall Mall, Luckies, or Camel straights. Bought them from a machine at work (bussing tables) for five quarters. Figured out quick if you sat down theyād yell but if you lit up it was fine. Eventually moved to Camel filters, then Winston lights when they killed the Camel Cash, then Marb ultralights and finally quit for good in 2012. Averaged two packs a day for 25 years. Currently living with COPD and 65% lung capacity so yeah. š¬
Saratoga menthol or Newport.
My dad smoked Salem while I had asthma.
LSMFT !
When I was in Germany around 2010 these machines were everywhere, on base the only option I cared for from the machine was lucky strike, but anywhere else they had chesterfields. When I came home it was seneca just for the price but eventually I figured Iām just snuffing myself with these things and decided to spring for something better. I kinda bounced back and forth between camels, and checkers for a while and eventually settled on Winstonās.
The smartest thing I didn't do was start smoking. I watched my dad literally kill himself with cigarettes and die at age 63. I've already outlived him.
Lucky Strike!
Canāt remember when I quit, must be 25-30 years.
Holy crap I forgot these things existed. As a smoker under 18 these were the best back in the day.
SĆ lem 100s and Newport lights 100s
Camel Wides, it has been close to 20 years since I smoked regularly. I don't miss anything about it.
Camel Filters, Lucky Strikes, American Spirits, occasionally Sherman MCDs.
Camel filters. Marlboro as my secondary.
Marlboro reds, Winston towards the end but I would get Philip Morris when I wanted to poison myself in a more classy fashion.
Red Apples.
All my friends smoked Marlboros, but I liked Old Gold, which I donāt see here. They were discontinued in the 1970s, IIRC. I recognize all the shown brands.
Marlboro reds...back when they weren't over $10 a pack
Kool.
I copped a few Kent's from my older brother.
Kools. Soft pack.
Camel Lights when I quit, but I tried quite a few brands over the years. My favorite was to walk up to a friend and whip out the pack and say thereās only one way to play itā¦and it was a pack of Kools. Oh to be young and dumb again.
Cowboy killers, Marlboro reds in box. Quit when my wife got pregnant so my kids wouldn't grow up around it like i did.
LSMFT!
Winston Select then Camel Wides
LSMFT
Camel lights. When I smoked back in the day
Virginia Slim Lights 120 menthol Not mine but mom's. It's what she gave money for when she made me run in to the store to buy them on the way home from picking me up from elementary school.
Pall Mall 3 packs a day. Then I got a job at the Dearborn Assembly Plant and switched to Kools. The brothers, especially Big Al, taught me the way. Then I started my apprenticeship and quit smoking that was 51 years ago
I like Marlboro and LS, but I was never serious. A here and there. Never tried Winston since they were gone by the time I was old enough. I remember them mostly from 80s ads in Sports Illustrated and at sports stadiums
Camel lights šŖ
My mom and dadās smokes of choiceā¦ Winston
The local Shoneys still had one of these suckers in the front & you betcha all the kids in the neighborhood would make distractions while the other delinquents would be feeding the machine as fast as they could.
Marlboro Light box
My father smoked Viceroy, shit those cigs were strong
Marlboro reds box, and flip one over after packing them!
Cowboy Killers. Still is.
Me and my Winstonās, we had a real good thing
Djarum, because I ran with that crowd. Then Lucky Strikes for a hot minute. Quit in college, in my 40s now. Tried smoking a cigar on Fatherās Day and spit up like a baby. Iām glad to have aged out of some things.
Salem
Tareyton. Because I would rather fight than switch.
Newportsā¦in a box, 20 years quit 4 years ago in October
I donāt smoke anymore, for decades, but I started with Winchesters ended up with Pall Malls.
I was cheap. GPC lights, got em from PX back in 90s for about a dollar a pack or less.
Camels.
What WAS my box? I still love my Marlboros.
Camel unfiltered pack and a half a day for the last 4 of12 years...quit 42 yrs ago.
Camel wides followed by marlboro lights
Kent's filters were made with asbestos.
Whichever lever dropped the free packā¦
Salem!
is that like a kkk cross on the floor?
Itās an [antique bar clamp](https://img1.etsystatic.com/000/0/6290014/il_570xN.306373571.jpg)