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If you run out, try chewing a rolaid while smoking a Marlboro light. Comes fairly close.

Quote: AZDuffman

This one cracks me up. The same people who say blacks are not capable of getting an ID say they are not capable of choosing the cigarettes they want to smoke! Cigarettes are "racial inequality?"

That blacks prefer menthol more than other groups is not in dispute. Hard to say if menthols were marketed to them more causing this or it caused the marketing. For all my life KOOL was kind of a "blacks cigarette" while whites who smoked menthols chose Salem. Heaven forbid marketers market towards blacks!

The "some reason" is that menthol was such a major flavor. Outside the USA there are all kinds of flavors. Vapes kind of capture this. Just more nanny stateism.

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Quote: fleaswatter

John "Lurch" Kerry is a traitor.

Oh dear.

The red meat lie blew up in the righties’ faces.

Now we are getting reruns from 2004...

Quote: Gandler

I personally much prefer non-flavored tobacco (when it comes to smoking, smokeless products and nicotine products I like flavors). I don't even like filtered cigarettes because it waters down the taste.

Lucky Strikes (until a couple months ago when they rebranded them into a new type where they now have filters and varieties with menthol crush ball things, they don't even sell the original soft pack with no filter anymore) were my favorite, now its pretty much just original Camels that are available without filters. I have been told Pall Mall makes a non-filtered variety, but I have not come across it.

Maybe if I smoked regularly (I probably average 1-3 Cigarettes/cigars a month, though due to COVID its been a long time, many months since I have smoked anything, generally just will have a smoke at casinos and certain bars, have not smoked anything in 2021) I would feel different, but I have never understood the appeal of menthol or filters. Both destroy that throat kick that you should get and the nicotine buzz.

Smoking is already terrible for you, so I don't buy the whole argument that adding unnatural chemicals to make flavors makes it any worse (its hard to do something more damaging than inhaling smoke into your lungs). The thing that is bad about the smoke is the smoke and carbon monoxide, after that damage a few flavor additives hardly matter, if it does at all. But, the health aspect is not a reason I avoid flavors, its just personal preference (if I was that concerned about the miniscule difference of additives I would not smoke at all, since its the act of smoking that is the greatest concern, but I'll risk it a handful of times a year when the occasion calls for it).

Quote: Mission146

Kools are excellent. Maybe not excellent, but very good. Good flavor...not a great menthol aroma before lighting (could be mistaken for a non-menthol), but has a pretty strong flavor when lit. Kools, in my estimation, will generally not dry your mouth out like Newports. I do not like Newports because I think the smoke is extremely dry, but maybe some people don't notice or mind that.

Quote: AZDuffman

We had a guy worked in produce night shift. You weren't supposed to smoke on the job but he sometimes did. Kid asks to bum a smoke and he asks if he wants Kool or Pall Mall. I give a weird look and he says "what?"

So I mention the obvious. He has one menthol and one unfiltered regular, who on earth does that? He said he had different moods. Only guy I ever met who flipped brands back and forth by choice.

Quote: Mission146

Now you've met two! I flip back and forth each cigarette, deliberately. The only exception is I'll often only take one pack or the other if I am going somewhere.