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80. Started on Kools

Tue Feb 11, 2025, 10:46 PM

Feb 11

Switched to Marlboro reds on a trip when Kools weren’t available. Back then in early 80s we could get cartons on sale in the PX for $1.99 but regular price was $2.99. Worked my way down to Marlboro lights when I finally quit in 2001.

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If you smoked; when you smoked, what was your brand? [View all] Floyd R. Turbo Feb 10 OP

Okay let me not answer the question BOSSHOG Feb 10 #1

Barging is welcomed! Floyd R. Turbo Feb 10 #2

Marlboro MustLoveBeagles Feb 10 #3

Congratulations! Floyd R. Turbo Feb 10 #4

mostly Marlboro light 100s Kali Feb 10 #5

😬 Floyd R. Turbo Feb 10 #10

I started smoking Moores cigarillos. A friend had them. applegrove Feb 10 #6

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I grew up in Canada, so Players were popular. pandr32 Feb 10 #7

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Candy cigs XanaDUer2 Feb 10 #8

😁 Floyd R. Turbo Feb 10 #14

Yep. Same here. Different Drummer Feb 11 #69

I quit over 30 years ago .... anciano Feb 10 #9

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For only a few years thinkingagain Feb 10 #13

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Finished with Export A? True Dough Feb 10 #17

I quit April 30, 1976. Cold turkey. My wife's doctor told her she should quit smoking. She had never smoked in her life. Floyd R. Turbo Feb 11 #37

Aw, you did it for the sake of your beloved wife! True Dough Feb 11 #38

Players, British brand elleng Feb 10 #18

😁 Floyd R. Turbo Feb 11 #45

Thai Stick DBoon Feb 10 #19

OMG I remember Thai sticks! Bobstandard Feb 11 #29

There was a book recently Thai Stick by Columbia University Press IbogaProject Feb 11 #32

😎 Floyd R. Turbo Feb 11 #46

OP's JoseBalow Feb 10 #20

You and Bob Seger. n/t, L.S.M.F.T. Harker Feb 11 #43

I worked in a drug store during college. While unpacking and stocking Lucky Strikes, we used to say that L.S.M.F.T LuckyCharms Feb 11 #62

I worked in a news and smoke shop starting when I was sixteen. Harker Feb 11 #64

😁 Floyd R. Turbo Feb 11 #47

Kools S/V Loner Feb 10 #21

My dad's brand! Floyd R. Turbo Feb 11 #48

Kools were the go to smokes of my maternal grandfather. Different Drummer Feb 11 #70

When they got so expensive I started rolling my own too. n/t S/V Loner Feb 11 #72

I never smoked, but my dad ... hoo boy, a human chimney. yonder Feb 10 #22

😥 Floyd R. Turbo Feb 11 #49

Most of the time, Marlboro. Americanme Feb 10 #23

👍🏻 Floyd R. Turbo Feb 11 #50

Started with Virginia Slims Menthol and then Salem Lights. Ended buying sinkingfeeling Feb 10 #24

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Old Gold Earl_from_PA Feb 10 #25

😁 Floyd R. Turbo Feb 11 #55

Marlboro, quit almost 20 years ago. Luciferous Feb 10 #26

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All my smoking was second hand from living in a household of chain smokers woodsprite Feb 10 #27

😬 Floyd R. Turbo Feb 11 #57

I'm 72 years old and smoked from 1970 till about 1986 or so. Talitha Feb 10 #28

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Backwoods Cartoonist Feb 11 #30

😏 Floyd R. Turbo Feb 11 #66

Winston for 33 years. Quit cold turkey May 14, 2003. WheelWalker Feb 11 #31

👍🏻 Floyd R. Turbo Feb 11 #67

Camel filters then Winston lights. I started in college. LudwigPastorius Feb 11 #33

👍🏻 Floyd R. Turbo Feb 11 #68

One Newport in the evening Comrade Citizen Feb 11 #34

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Marlboro. But smoking and I didn't agree. I smoked about a pack or two a week for 5 years. LeftInTX Feb 11 #35

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Marlboro with Winston as my second choice if the former is sold out. NT Midwestern Democrat Feb 11 #36

😃 Floyd R. Turbo Feb 12 #84

Panama Red WestMichRad Feb 11 #39

😎 Floyd R. Turbo Feb 12 #85

Camels and salems. roamer65 Feb 11 #40

😁 Floyd R. Turbo Feb 12 #86

Unfiltered Camels. boonecreek Feb 11 #41

😬👍🏻 Floyd R. Turbo Feb 12 #87

Romeo y Julieta cigars. The real ones. From Cuba. Paladin Feb 11 #42

☺️ Floyd R. Turbo Feb 13 #89

My last pack of cigs were Camel lights. Mosby Feb 11 #44

👍🏻 Floyd R. Turbo Feb 13 #90

Marlboro Lights/Winston Lights. Quit 12 years ago. LuckyCharms Feb 11 #52

California Sinsemilla GoYouPackersGo Feb 11 #53

Winston. Does it still exist? sometimes Kools peacebuzzard Feb 11 #54

Marlboro, free in C-Rations, 19 cents a pack at the PX surfered Feb 11 #59

Marlboro. cloudbase Feb 11 #60

Same as I still smoke Mexican no-names. marble falls Feb 11 #61

I started off on Marlboro Niagara Feb 11 #63

I smoked a pipe until tobacco became ridiculously expensive. malthaussen Feb 11 #65

Whatever the smoker(s) I was with mnhtnbb Feb 11 #71

Camels. Unfiltered. Wicked Blue Feb 11 #73

I didn't but my mom smoked Kent. RandySF Feb 11 #76

I use hickory with pork and oak with beef. Sneederbunk Feb 11 #77

Statred with Luckies, switched to Camels, then Dorals until I quit. rzemanfl Feb 11 #78

Started with Lucky Strikes (Dads_/////the tp "Winstones", then Parliments (recessed tip. OAITW r.2.0 Feb 11 #79

Started on Kools unweird Feb 11 #80

Mostly Winstons Bavorskoami Feb 11 #81

I started with Winston when I was 15, then Marlboro in the box until I quit forever in 2016 at 69 dai13sy Feb 11 #82

Winston. Quit after I got out of the Army years ago. GP6971 Feb 11 #83

Does Second Hand Smoke in the Cafeteria's Girls Bathroom count?! "Cough, Cough, ACK!" 😵‍💫 electric_blue68 Feb 12 #88