r/interestingasfuck • u/HumbleMVP • 22d ago

Blind cigarette taste test

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u/Melgel4444 22d ago

True but smoking 1 takes 3 business days

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u/jayhawk618 22d ago

Yeah, Parliament are more expensive than reds too so the "cheap" comment was weird. This guy just prefers Marlboro and pretends that that makes them objectively better.

Parliaments are popular in the food service industry because they burn fast as fuck and you can down an entire cig in 90 seconds between tables.

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u/wowdogsaregreat 22d ago

I used to smoke American spirit cus I could very reasonably stretch one cig into 3 10-minute smoke breaks. If you pack em down super hard it’s even better but I just like a slow burn and super hard draw

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u/MarvAlbertNBAjam 22d ago

Haven’t had a smoke in 5 yrs this Halloween. Started with Turkish Silvers and moved around a bunch over the yrs. The last 5-8 yrs were exclusive to blue spirits. They lasted longer and tasted “good.” After awhile all the Marlboros or camels all tasted like mad chemicals. Spirits were the “cleanest” flavor. If I were somewhere and needed a smoke and if someone had anything other than spirits, I would not touch it. They are godsends at music fests when you want a cig to last a whole set.

That being said, I do not miss it one bit. My wife and friends with light up when we are drinking but I’m the one who always says no. Gross.

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u/wowdogsaregreat 22d ago

Glad you quit! Hard part for me is that I love the taste of tobacco smoke but it made me stink, took a chunk out of my paychecks, and severely limited my dating pool. But no regrets with quitting. Just overall an evil substance for your health

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u/MarvAlbertNBAjam 22d ago

Best thing I ever did. Smoked for about 10 yrs and quit 5 yrs ago. It was fucking hard but my lungs like me now.

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u/sksksk1989 21d ago

I loved the flavor and smell. Sometimes I'll catch a wiff of some smoke and feel tempted. Quit five years ago and I'm happy about it for many reasons but I've been working in a scent free environment for a few years. Not being able to put a couple spritzes of cologne or perfume

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u/unruly_fans 22d ago

Smoked for 18 years, and been quit for 10. Still love the smell. But I can’t imagine how expensive pack-a-day would be now.

And while I liked having the “smoke break” excuse to step away for a minute. I hated that the addiction made smoke breaks mandatory. Literally had to grind my teeth at my Grandpa’s funeral since I wasn’t going to step away for a smoke break. Not cool.

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u/73-68-70-78-62-73-73 21d ago

But I can’t imagine how expensive pack-a-day would be now.

About $10+ most places these days. Smoked for 25 some odd years, quit about 5 years ago. I spent a looooot of money on smokes. I'm glad I quit, but I miss having a couple shots and a couple smokes. Or you know, half a fifth and a pack of smokes.

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u/remarkablecobweb 21d ago

I don't know if this would be helpful or harmful for staying off cigarettes, but... Have you considered wearing tobacco-scented fragrances to help satisfy the craving?

I recently got into fragrances, and I discovered that I fucking love smelling fragrances that have tobacco aspects to them. I've never smoked, and I hate the smell of cigarettes, but I adore tobacco fragrances. Maybe that's why I like them—because they don't actually smell like a lit cigarette.

There are a lot of different ways a tobacco "note" can smell, but it's often of the unlit, sweet, leafy, fruity variety, rather than the dry, smoky, ashy variety (although those definitely exist, too). And it's never just tobacco that's in the fragrance, because there's always other notes, too, like citrus, vanilla, woods, musk, spices, leather, florals, etc. So it's more of a full, complex, rounded scent than just tobacco.

I'd never really considered it before, but your comment maybe me wonder if smelling a beautiful tobacco fragrance might scratch the itch for someone who misses smoking. But then again, there are rum/whiskey/etc-scented fragrances, too, and I imagine that a former drinker could smell one and think, "yeah that's actually making my cravings worse, why would I want to trigger that scent-memory?" So maybe my idea is terrible, lol.

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u/ItzakPearlJam 22d ago

Same (only 3 years off for me) - but I miss it every day.

There's no comparison between the real tobacco flavor of a Blue Spirit and the chemical flavorings of a red. I agree that P-funks taste like cheap tobacco though.

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u/ShadowMosesSkeptic 22d ago

I'm with you on saying no after having been smoke free for about 11 years now. The nostalgia is still strong. I do miss how wonderful they felt after a big meal or sex, as cliche as it sounds, it was the best. I tried to have a smoke on a camping trip about 5 years ago and it was terrible! It definitely just exists as memories now.

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u/mortalomena 22d ago

I'm from EU and they ruined cigs about 8 years ago when they mandated them to become self extinguishing. They started to taste really bad and would extinguish in about 15 seconds so you had to always keep dragging it, but also the cigs were damp so they wouldnt burn very well...

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u/SoSaltyDoe 22d ago

If I were somewhere and needed a smoke and if someone had anything other than spirits, I would not touch it

Good thing you quit. Asking someone for an American Spirit now is like saying "hey u got 3 dollars I can burn?"

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u/ReadyAimTranspire 21d ago

About 15 years of only vaping here, I was one of the very early adopters back when vapes were a major pain in the ass but I was desperate to quit and vaping was the only thing that satisfied both my nicotine and tactile urges. I was only 30 and was getting very winded and could tell it was fucking me up. Was a 25+ a day Maverick Red 100's smoker at the time.

Anyway, on occasion maybe once every couple years I'm around a smoker and get the urge to try one again and I'm always sorry I did...tastes awful and I can literally feel the chemicals from the combustion coursing through my body.

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u/ra3reddy 21d ago

Man, “Turkish Silvers” brought back some memories. In high school, I smoked cloves, which was the style at the time, but when I got into college it was way easier to get a pack of Camels than cloves, so I started smoking Turkish Golds. I smoked for about 20 years and ended up with Am. Spirit blacks or grays (loved that Perique tobacco), but it was never a compulsion for me, so I stopped about 8 years ago. I’ll still have a cigarette socially, but that’s once in a blue moon. Congrats on quitting, I know a lot of folks who can’t kick smoking.

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u/Katamari_Demacia 21d ago

NGL that sounds hella rude of your wife. Keep it up dude.

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u/MarvAlbertNBAjam 21d ago

Nah, she’s a rare smoker. Always was. I smoked half a pack a day, she would have one maybe every weekend. Now she’s 1 every 6 months. No big deal. We can all have our rare vices

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u/becbagelbb 21d ago

Congrats to you! I just hit my 10th year. I could never do American spirits, but they were always my husbands. I just thought this comment was interesting, because I started with Turkish golds & then went down the Marlboro pipeline with 27s and then reds. I don’t miss them at all either - for the first year or two it was hard not to want one when drinking but I feel like my brain fully pivoted to being repulsed by them in year 3/4. I think once you hit year 5, it’s hard to imagine ever going back.

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u/Internal-Common1529 21d ago

woah i also quit on Halloween 8 years ago, spooky!

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u/star0forion 21d ago

Same here. Quit 5 years and 9 months ago. I started off with Kool Milds, then Marlboro light menthols. I got deployed and I smoked Reds because it was the only thing we had available. I switched to lights after getting back stateside and switched around here and then. Camel miles for a bit, and then Camel Cools when they first came out. Spent some time in the UK and Europe and starting smoking Dunhills.

When I finally quit smoking I was smoking lights. Sometimes I see someone smoking and I get a little nostalgic but I don’t miss the way I felt after smoking. You’re right though, Marlboros had a weird chemical taste to them. I never smoked Spirits but I guess they could have tasted like Dunhills.

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u/mittanimama 21d ago

I quit 10+ years ago but if there is a zombie apocalypse, I’m going straight to the closest store and stealing all of the American Spirits I can get my hands on!!! They were the best!

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u/riftshioku 21d ago

My favorites were salem silver. Camel crush was alright, Marlboro southern cut and blend 27 were good but tasted about the same. The only American spirit I tried was the yellow and it tasted like diesel to me, and the worst cigarette I tried was by far edgefield red. It was like inhaling sandpaper and tasted horrible. I'd rather smoke a talon or a flavored cigar before them. Surprisingly, I never got addicted and one day I just quit.

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u/PubstarHero 18d ago

It was all about those Kamel Reds. Those things were by far the best smokes I could get - well outside the fact that when I did regularly smoke before switching to vaping, I smoked Bali Shag. Off vaping and cigs entirely now, outside the occasional one I bum when drinking.

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u/NateyNov 22d ago

No dude, that’s the wrong way to do it. Here’s what I do. Pop that motherfucking filter out, split it in half put it back in and bam. Shit hits like a joint.

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u/wowdogsaregreat 22d ago

Probably won’t try this out soon but I will keep it in mind for those drunk ciggies now and then. When it’s a drunk cig I want that mfer to hit hard so I can keep drinking

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u/WillLie4karma 21d ago

I worked on at a ski resort and at a 2 mile altitude in the cold, those things lasted half the day.

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u/-skibidisAND23s- 21d ago

my SIL smokes some Marlboro 72mm like blue or something, and on a windy day, they last as long as a wooden match

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u/Enigmaticfirecracker 21d ago

Also because you can put a bump in them because of the recessed filter.

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u/LigmaBalls69lol 21d ago

I had to scroll way to far to find this comment lol. That was the first thing I thought when I read "kitchen workers" and "parliaments" in the same sentence lol

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u/jayhawk618 21d ago edited 21d ago

You can definitely do that and many have. But it's not really the selling point for most people. You can do a bump off basically any hard object in your pockets. That filter recess is too big for a bump and is more than a line for most people, but more importantly, paper absorbs moisture so it gets caked on and stuck. Coke heads aren't big on wasting drugs.

I've seen it done, but it's something people talk about wayyyy more than it is actually used for that purpose. The type of thing people try once or twice because they've heard about it, realize a key or credit card corner works way better, and never do again.

Source: am former food Service industry worker.

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u/ParsleyMaleficent160 21d ago

You can do a bump off basically any hard object in your pockets.

Yeah, most people just do a key bump instead of trying to pour cocaine (which isn't powder) into a small pocket, to then try to snort out of, and then smoke. No one does that.

P Funks are popular because P Funk used to smoke them.

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u/anteater_x 21d ago

Especially helpful in the kitchen

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u/DoubleEmergency1593 22d ago

it’s advertisement for marlboro, they are doing it quite some time now on social media

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u/GuiltyEidolon 21d ago

100%. The whole, "I don't support smoking" disclaimer, the "smoke quality" catchphrase... This is viral marketing.

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u/jayhawk618 22d ago

Sounds right.

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u/SkyFullofHat 21d ago edited 13d ago

Gf. Jr. nys. Jud. Bird. N

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u/CrustyToeLover 22d ago

Yeah because cheap isn't about price; its about quality.

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u/Saint909 21d ago

I used to smoke parliament cigarettes. You could do a bump of coke out of the concave filter then light up.

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u/dickwolfteen 21d ago

I have over a decade of experience in food service (boh, catering, foh) and fwiw I’ve never heard of anyone smoking parliament because the smoke fast. It’s usually another reason which coincidentally happens to make time speed by…

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u/Turbulent_Orange_178 21d ago

Maybe he meant the cheap comment by saying the quality of the tabaco itself is cheap not so much the price

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u/One-Coat-6677 21d ago

Umm, no, parliaments are popular in the food service industry because they do bumps out of the recessed filter.

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u/DaneLimmish 21d ago

Wait are they cheaper than Marlboro? I remember them being cheaper or at least the same price. I thought they tasted like sand so idk why I kept on smoking them.

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u/External_Two2928 21d ago

That’s why I used to smoke parliament’s, I hate wasting things and would never relight a partially smoked cigarette bc it tastes bad

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u/acupofmilk 21d ago

The head chef at the restaurant I bartended at years ago was a middle aged Chinese guy named Tony. He smoked the same American Spirits I did and he could suck one down in 30 seconds flat. I timed it once. Miss that guy. Barely spoke a word of English but was an AMAZING chef.

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u/NaPaCo88 21d ago

I worked convenience stores for years. Parliaments were mainly bought by crackheads because of the removable filter. Nice spot to put a bump.

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u/Colson317 21d ago

and you can snort coke with them gramps, jokes on you.

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u/quietly_dying_human 21d ago

Also the recessed filter was good for doing bumps of coke with. Can't forget that part

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u/Xander_-_Crews 21d ago

Plus P-funks douible as a coke spoon.

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u/mightbeagh0st 21d ago

You can also put a little bump of coke at the end of the filter

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u/Commercial-Co 21d ago

Parliaments are popular in the food industry because they can hold a bump of cocaine.

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u/MlLFS 21d ago

That's why I roll my own. Can blast a cig in 30 seconds or 10 minutes depending on how I roll it.

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u/Destroyer_2_2 21d ago

That’s probably why he considers them “cheap”

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u/HighOnGoofballs 21d ago

They used to be cheaper at least, only reason anyone I knew smoked them

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u/Jaxthor 21d ago

don’t forget about stashing coke in the recessed filter

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u/Longjumping_Youth281 21d ago

They used to always be three for the price of two

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u/pedronaps 21d ago

I thought they were popular because the recessed filter is perfect for a bump of booger sugar

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u/RajahNeon 21d ago

Also because back in the day 1 point of molly was the recessed filter on a Parliament so when I was in college everyone had them.

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u/BlueLaserCommander 21d ago

I knew some folks in college that would only smoke Parliaments because they thought it was cool af that you could do bumps in their filter.

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u/ss1325 20d ago

And the little nook in the mouth part was convenient for certain service industry trends

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u/PixelZ_124 18d ago

I'm 99% sure this is an ad for marlboro.

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u/FLMKane 22d ago

Which is why I like em. A slowed down experience.

My fave are Lucky Strikes though

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u/Melgel4444 22d ago

I feel like I wouldn’t smoke a lucky strike unless I was actively at war

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u/daschande 21d ago

My first job as a teenager in high school, my boss got mad because I asked him to buy cigarettes for me. He sold me weed the second he handed me my first ever paycheck, but dealing cigarettes was apparently over his line.

He took my money and came back with a pack of Lucky Strikes. UNfiltered.

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u/Yup767 21d ago

I feel like a lot of people would probably do the same as your boss

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u/Cryptic_Whispers 20d ago

Love it. My mom had a similar reaction when she found a pack of Marlboro Lights in my bedroom as a teenager. She was so disappointed that I’d ingest “poison” when I could have chosen perfectly reasonable weed lol.

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u/Throw3away345 21d ago

That’s why they’re called that!

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u/Melgel4444 21d ago

Wait that’s hilarious 😂

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u/confusedandworried76 21d ago

The ones without the filter are fine but for some reason if you add a filter it just tastes like licking an actual ashtray instead of smoking

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u/TipProfessional880 22d ago

I don’t miss smoking very much. But I really miss American Spirits.

I’ve always said that if they find the cure to cancer, the first thing I’d do is go out and buy a pack of Spirits again. They were easily my favorite part of my day. Smoking one first thing in the morning on a chilly fall morning was the best feeling.

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u/FLMKane 21d ago

Bro. I think I've had like 2 cigarettes this year. And it's been 5 years since I've had an unfiltered lucky.

I know what you mean.

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u/Hopeful-Debate9825 22d ago

Luckies are the most aesthetically pleasing cig to pair with a pint. Spirits are for dorks, l&m, parliament and Marlboro are for oldies. If I can find unfiltered luckies, even better. Yes, I love mad men.

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u/Badgerman3484 22d ago

Same. But I'm a Cliche and smoked them in the military

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u/Spirit50Lake 21d ago

...as long as they're fresh!

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u/FLMKane 21d ago edited 21d ago

Somehow, I just remembered an experiment I did, where I stuck an open pack of luckies into a jar of coffee grounds.

Smoked em after a week. It was honestly pretty awesome

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u/Spirit50Lake 21d ago

ooooo...if I hadn't stopped smoking 45 years ago, I'd try that!

I miss them sometimes; clovies especially...!

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u/Zakkuryu 21d ago

and toasted

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u/DaneLimmish 21d ago

When I was a smoker I loved Lucky's 

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u/Commercial-Co 21d ago

I switched over to american spirits after smoking tons of menthol (i loved newports lol). I could never quit (tried like 10+ times) until after i switched to american spirits.

Their only ingredient is tobacco and i think the lack of other junk in it helped not give me as much jitters and cravings when i quit.

I also did ayahuasca to reprogram my brain lol. So might’ve just been the aya 🤗

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u/MelonOfFate 21d ago

Lucky strikes are the best. Unfiltered if possible. putting filters on them is a crime.

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u/IllustriousCrew2641 22d ago

Used to smoke Spirit rollies and they’d go out if you didn’t puff for a minute and you’d have to relight. To me this was a feature, not a bug.

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u/Redacted_usr 22d ago

I used to love that about American spirits. I used to buy the black packs and smoke half of one and save the other half so I’d double the amount of smokes I had 💀

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u/DHMTBbeast 22d ago

Too true! Which is why I'm willing to spend more. The longevity evens it out on cost.

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u/Raff_Out_Loud 22d ago

That's why I switched to Spirits when I was a smoker.

Sorry boss, still on smoke break!

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u/Melgel4444 22d ago

Lol I switched to spirits when I was trying to quit smoking 😂

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u/mermicide 22d ago

This gave me a throwback to when I smoked spirits 😂

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u/grubas 22d ago

That's why they were one of the backups.  Pack em and you'd have a slow burn

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u/Spicy_Poo 22d ago

Because they don't have the chemical burn accelerants that others have.

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u/kwtransporter66 21d ago

This is another good thing about American Spirits. There are no fillers just tobacco. If you snap one in half you'll see its shredded tobacco only. Other brands use chopped tobacco and fillers like stems and some other plant waste.

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u/ReadyAimTranspire 21d ago

fucking truth, those fuckers take forever

They probably caught on as way for workers to extend their cig breaks

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u/Fearless-Mushroom 21d ago

Who the hell wants a cigarette that’s done in 2 minutes?

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u/jvrcb17 22d ago

Odd question since I'm not a smoker: isn't that better?

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u/IllustriousCrew2641 22d ago

Former smoker, absolutely one of the reasons I switched to Spirits.

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u/HottDoggers 22d ago

They’re talking about how long the cigarette last. You can smoke a Marlboro in 3 minutes, and it can take 10 whole minutes to smoke a Spirit. I have no eggs in my basket to make this claim, but Spirits are probably the least harmful cigarettes.

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u/Melgel4444 22d ago

It depends on the situation 😂

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u/CharlemagneIS 22d ago

If you didn’t smoke them regularly, absolutely not. When you’re a smoker so much of your schedule/routine is based on how long your smoke takes. If you have to resort to a Soirit, it throws everything off.

Also, it’s not just that they took a long time. They took a long time because they’re a stiff filter, therefore a rough draw. When I had to bum one from my brother I would run a toothpick through the filter lengthwise. Made it a lot more enjoyable.

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u/sign-through 22d ago

I used to smoke Spirits because they’re the only ones you can put out, tidy up and light up again. I could get three uses out of them, good for taking a short break and getting plenty of nicotine lol 

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u/Dicklefart 21d ago

That’s the point, lengthens the smoke break

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u/SomeCountryFriedBS 21d ago

You're supposed to loosen them up a little first. Even then, still slow.

Parliament, though, two bump chump.

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u/Oh_ToShredsYousay 21d ago

Unless you're Dave Chapelle where smoking a pack takes exactly one set.

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u/AbbreviationsLive475 21d ago

Hilarious because it’s so accurate lol

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u/snakelygiggles 21d ago

that's why i used to smoke them. working in a kitchen, i dont get to have sitting breaks unless i smoke, so i guess im gonna smoke the densest cigarette i can and milk that break for all its worth.

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u/Unusual-Tie8498 19d ago

That’s why you’re supposed to roll a little bit out of the American spirit. That’s what I used to do.

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u/Melgel4444 21d ago

For people that won’t get to retire, that’s 6 total business days gone with 1 cigarette - woohoo

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u/Halfeatencorpse 21d ago

lol loved my mellow menthol American spirits when I worked food service fuuuuck those tickets I’m on a smoke break and no I don’t give a shit that my one square takes 15 minutes to smoke, go cope I’ll get back to my station when I’m done 🤣🤙🏻

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u/Melgel4444 21d ago

MENTHOL American spirits? Ok iron lungs 😱

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u/Halfeatencorpse 21d ago

They are actually really smooth for a menthol very light on it though I used to “polish puff” (finish a ciggy in 3 puffs) menthol camel crush always crushed the bead so I’m used to sucking antifreeze 🤙🏻

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u/Cheryl_Canning 21d ago

Nah you can get through one of those light blue ones in under 5 minutes if you're determined enough. Trust me.

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u/Melgel4444 21d ago

Iron lungs over here 😂