About to Smoke This!

[Simmerdown☕️]

@dctune You know we really didn't see 'American' cigarettes until the late 1970s. I had a Geography teacher who smoked 'Camels' and another who smoked 'Kent' but American brands were bit more expensive than UK brands and only came in packs of twenty. I have happy memories of buying ten 'Woods' or Park Drive, Senior Service or Players Weights from those lovely old vending machines. I have often wondered how people lived so long back in the day.

Most people didn’t live that long back in the day. Now, hospitalists, pharma, & insurance are all in collaboration to keep us living longer so that we can keep paying them fees, copays, and premiums. The upside is that no matter the quality of our lives, we get to smoke our bowls for longer periods. ?️?

 

[chilllucky]

I bought a box of licorice pipes the last time I was in the duty free shops in a Scandinavian airport.


They were in the 21 and over tobacco room next to the plain packaging cigarettes and two MacBaren blends.

 

[TheIronMonkey]

I've just remembered getting chocolate cigarettes wrapped in paper at Halloween. I much preferred those to the hard, white, chalky ones—I also remember the white ones being joined together inside the cigarette package, sort of like a Pan flute. You had to snap them apart.

 

[STP]

I always liked the bubble gum cigarettes. I remember that you could blow the powder sugar and it looked like smoke?

 

[TheIronMonkey]

I forgot about those!

 

[mso489]

Kind of chalky textured but a sweet sugar high. Out of a magic and pranks book that would probably be forbidden in all fifty states today, I learned to make a fake cigarette out of rolled paper with a piece of red foil stuck on the end, then dribbled with glue and rolled in cigarette ash. It look convincing, and was a way to startle adults, which was always a good thing.

 

[The Clay King]

@dctune You know we really didn't see 'American' cigarettes until the late 1970s. I had a Geography teacher who smoked 'Camels' and another who smoked 'Kent' but American brands were bit more expensive than UK brands and only came in packs of twenty. I have happy memories of buying ten 'Woods' or Park Drive, Senior Service or Players Weights from those lovely old vending machines. I have often wondered how people lived so long back in the day.

@condorlover1 I think cigarette vending machines were outlawed because of under age young people using them to buy their smokes.
I remember them in pubs when I was younger but Dad says they use to have them outside shops back in the old days.
I don't remember milk vending machines that were said to be common in the 1960s though.