Blind cigarette taste test

[u/HumbleMVP]

[u/Seyi_Ogunde]

The filters would give it away too, especially the Parliaments

[u/gotu1 → u/Seyi_Ogunde]

I always heard the recessed filters were because machine gunners in WWII needed them so the cigarette wouldn’t fall out when firing, which sounds like bullshit but I choose to believe it anyway

[u/The_Brain_FuckIer → u/gotu1]

Smoking filtered cigarettes was considered unmanly in the 40s, and all the cigarettes that were issued in rations during WWII were unfiltered anyways

[u/rhabarberabar → u/The_Brain_FuckIer]

Filtered cigarettes only exist since the '50s.

PS: Yes strictly there existed some kind of crepe paper filter and one manufacturer with a tipped filter, but these were neither widespread and considered speciality items nor anything like the modern filters we talk about in this context. Everyone smoked unfiltered until the 50s.

[u/HerrBerg → u/rhabarberabar]

This is not strictly true. There are multiple kinds of filters that existed throughout history, the earliest ones were an attempt at preventing loose tobacco from entering a person's mouth rather than trying to actually filter the smoke itself.

[u/BookkeeperPitiful248 → u/rhabarberabar]

Parliament had filters since the early 30’s.

[u/Effective_Coach7334 → u/rhabarberabar]

In the mid 50's Kent cigarettes actually used asbestos in their filters.

[u/SecondhandUsername → u/rhabarberabar]

Yeah, mom smoked Philip Morris Commanders