What Did Your Fathers and Grandfathers Smoke?

[jmatt]

My dad was a Borkum Riff smoker. I asked, but even he didn't remember which variety.

 

[shutterbugg]

My grandfather smoked cigars and my father smoked cigarettes, although he quit when I was 7 and never took it up again. He said he tried a pipe before I was born but didn't like it. I still have his meer, great smoker, must be 70-75 years old by now. I only took up the pipe in college because the girls in class hated the cigar but loved the smell of a pipe. Or so they thought, until I lit up a lat-forward English and taught those brats a lesson. Went back to cigars for many years, then back to the pipe when the Gen-X morons made cigar smoking "a hobby" and drove the price of a decent cigar through the roof.

 

[phxrock]

@ClickClick, I would love to find a pouch of Plow Boy. I haven't had it since the early 70's. It was a good smoking/chewing tobacco.
My Grandfather smoked Half/Half. An Uncle smoked Velvet. My mother and StepFather did the ciggs.
John R

 

[pappap]

My Grand father smoked Prince Albert and my Uncle smoked Edgewoth

 

[pappymac]

My dad was a cigarette smoker. The only grandfather I knew was a pipe smoker. At one time he smoked only George Washington from what I was told.

 

[jcsoldit]

My Dad smoked Sir Walter Raleigh, Flying Dutchman, and Captain Black White. The ladies at his offices loved the smell of CBW. ::

 

[tuold]

My grandfather only smoked Prince Albert. I still have the last opened can of it had just before he died back in 1994. Surprisingly, it's still quite smokable. I'll take a pinch in one of his old pipes in remembrance this weekend.

 

[stephenw]

When my father smoked he smoked Chesterfield cigarettes. His father smoked a pipe and although he quit long before I was born, dad told me he smoked Cutty tobacco. My mom's father used tobacco in many ways. He dipped Old Square snuff, smoked those little Parodi cigars and when he smoked a pipe he smoked Flying Dutchman. When I started smoking a pipe I would frequently get a tin of Flying Dutchman just to have a feeling of closeness to my grandfather. By the time I smoking, Cutty was no longer available.

 

[beerandbaccy]

My Dad smoked these:
(I found these last summer unopened in his loft)

plus Dunhill Early Morning Pipe and Three Nuns and Plumcake

 

[ahmadothman]

Both my granddads smoked cigarettes, same for my paternal grandmother.. and my father as well, but he smoked the occasional pipe and it was exclusively Captain Black Cherry

 

[yohanan]

My Father smoked Prince Albert, with an occasional pouch of SWR to break things up a little. He mainly smoked Kaywoodie pipes.

 

[noquarter]

My paternal grandfather smoked cigs,rolled his own cigars/cigarillos and probably smoked whatever is available on his pipe. A few steps away from their home is a tobacco/corn field.

 

[jndyer]

Not sure exactly what my grandfather smoked; however, I distinctly remember that he has some straight stemmed black rusticated pipe and a large white tub of tobacco. Since he lived in a very small lumber mill town I assume that it was an OTC blend and am inclined to believe that it was Captain Black.
I had an uncle, my grandfather's brother, who smoked old burly blend like PA, Granger, Paladin, ect. What is amazing is that he often would set around the campfire and make his own corn cob pipe. After fashioning the bowl he would take a long piece of metal and heat it in the fire to burn/bore a whole in a random piece of twig he whittled for the stem. This would be in addition to the one briar pipe he had.

 

[drrock]

The main tobacco I remember my grandfather (who gave me my first pipe a long time ago) smoking is Mixture 79!

 

[zekest]

As far as I know, there were no pipe smokers in my family.

 

[huntertrw]

During a brief period when my late father dabbled with the pipe he preferred Douwe Egbert's Amphora Extra Mild Cavendish (blue tin). His father, a confirmed pipe-smoker, alternated between The American Tobacco Company's Half-and-Half and R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company's Prince Albert. My maternal grandfather was also a pipe-smoker, but passed before I was born, and I do not know what were his preferences in pipe-tobacco.

 

[skraps]

Gramps didn't smoke a pipe, but my Uncle did. He had plenty of cans of Half & Half around the workshop, so I assume that was part of his consumption at some point. 1Q or BCA was his regular when I was growing up though.
He had a jar of BCA next to his chair, always with a slice of apple in it. I assume to keep it more moist than it already was. :crazy:

 

[michiganlover]

My grandfather smoked machine made cigars like White Owl, cigarrettes, and a pipe. He made roll your own cigarettes as well. He smoked the same tobacco in his cigarettes as his pipe. Since he was a farmer turned machine shop owner, and lived through the Great Depression, it was likely whatever he could find cheapest at the local store. I had a sample of it, and it's not any of the common OTC pipe tobaccos.

 

[hawky454]

My father-in-law smoke Captain Black cut with Latakia. He told me he had tried tons of blends from all over the world and that particular combo was his favorite. It's not bad actually but definitely not a favorite of mine.

 

[coda]

My father-in-law smoke Captain Black cut with Latakia. He told me he had tried tons of blends from all over the world and that particular combo was his favorite. It's not bad actually but definitely not a favorite of mine.

Sounds like he would like Boswell's Northwoods...