Marlboro Red cigarettes.

[WildRosie]

Any current or ex-smokers with experience of these tabs ? I'm not a smoker but I've heard that Marlboro Red are quite 'heavy duty' and not for the faint hearted. I expect the same could be said of other premium cigarettes like Benson and Hedges Gold and Regal King Size. Is there any substance to what folk say about them. Just interested.

Thankyou.

Blimey this thread takes me back - soft pack Marlboro were so cool, as were Lucky Strike. All the cool boys smoked them. I was a Marlboro lights girl but the very thought makes me feel sick now. I last smoked about seven or eight years ago and nothing could make me pick up the tabs again. You just don't see people smoking like we did back then any more. There's a lot of things I miss about the 90s and 00s but fags ain't one!

All I want now is pack of red Gauloises... Much nicer than Marlborough lights. My DH brought back some untipped ones from Japan and they were amazebombs but so strong. I dropped the packet by accident and sometimes when I'm dreaming I still go off in search of them.

My parents always had a pack of sobraine for special occasions (family get togethers and Christmas). They always came out at the end of the night when everyone was tipsy.
I remember silk cut being like smoking air but if they were the only ones on offer we used to lick a bit of Rizla and seal it round the holes in the filter.

I smoked Marlboro reds back in the 80's gave up around 88. They were strong, not as strong as Capstan full strength though.

God I miss smoking! Marlborough reds disgusting, so strong. Silk cut also grim, Marlborough lights all the way. I’d buy lucky strikes from the machine in the student union, because they were the only ones that came in packs of 20 rather than 16 from the extortionate cigarette machine. When I was a student you could get 20 Marlborough lights and a packet of blue extra chewing gum for a fiver. I only quit smoking for good two years ago, for years I was a ‘smoke a packet of cigarettes a month’ smoker, it was my ‘I’ve had a stressful day at work’ treat. I don’t miss the smell in my hair but I miss a cold beer and a cigarette in a beer garden on a sunny evening.

Somebody must have liked Marlboro Red.

Yes! We used to nick my Mum's Silk Cut and cover the holes with the sticky bit of paper off a Rizla.

Marlboro red are a thing of beauty, they’re my friday night treat, a much more expensive treat than it was a few years ago.

I never really smoked, but in my misspent youth a boy I liked smoked Marlboro Reds, and I always associate the smell with fun nights out. Then when I met DP, much later, we would occasionally share a Marlboro Light for all of the eight or so weeks before we decided to have a baby and swore off such things. Happy memories.

Ohhhh these were the best when I was a smoker! I understood it was toasted tobacco but I could be wrong?

Marlboro Red?

Lightweights.

Capstan was the one to smoke.

Capstan had the advantage of being unfiltered, like Player's and Senior Service.

I used to favour b&h gold, or the camels in the blue packets.

Also went through a phase of smoking djarum clove cigarettes until I friend told me she could smell me coming from a distance 🤣

The strongest I ever came across were a Moldovan brand called Doina - literally made my chest hurt!

If you were a teenager in the UK in the '80s and didn't fancy the real hard core of the capstan full strength, players etc. smoked by older people usually (so not trendy and also too strong), then the Marlboro Red was your next one down. Then JPS black (hard work, don't think they survived for long), then B&H gold. There was always embassy, regal, L&B, but again these were smoked by older people so not so cool, short packets. Everything sold in 10s as well as 20s. I can remember, Lucky Strike and the party cigarettes and Consulate methol and Camel coming in and out of fashion. Silk Cut Purple, then silver, then ultra low (white) and Marlboro Gold. Soft packs being more fashionable, but oh so easily crushed. Doubt you can get most of these now. Doubt most would want them, but they were a thing in time.

I lived in a country where the only cigarettes that didn't make me sick were Malborough red. I smoked 20 a day. They are strong. I wanted lighter ones but everything else made me nauseous. Weird. They're hard to gone by in the uk. I smoke Malborough gold here which are lighter. I switched to vaping for a but but it was harsher on my lungs, all the moisture, so I alternate now. I've invested in some patches so I'm going to make a half hearted 3rd attempt to give up

Why were the soft packs more fashionable ? They can't have been much good if your precious smokes got squashed.

Marolboro red was what you smoked when you were out clubbing to try and look cool. I remember buying packs for £6 in the pub vending machine when other cigs were £4.

I started on Lambert and Butler, you could buy 10 fags with your friend on the way to school and split them and still have almost enough money for lunch too and then I moved onto Regal King Size which were seen as slightly more upmarket.

I remember the Marlboro girls visiting pubs in groups of three or four in the early 1990s, using their feminine wiles and good looks to persuade smokers of other cigarette brands to switch to Marlboro. The punters would get a free pack of twenty Reds (I don't remember Lights being offered) but their existing pack of whatever would be taken away by the girls, no matter how many cigarettes were left inside! I'm sure I'm right in thinking the girls only targeted men. Unthinkable nowadays.

Yes they were pretty hardcore. About the only thing as strong was Camel, Gouloise were probably even worse, although if anyone has ever tried Khukari (Nepalese fags) my god those things were rank 😫

I smoked Bensons, or Bennie hedgehogs as we used to call them. Must be £20 a pack now!

A friend used to smoke silk cut blue and you had to practically smother the whole thing with rizla to be able to take a drag. Of course the only reason I had rizla on me was for my oboe reeds . . .

Malboro Light girl here! Could never stomach the Reds.

My friend smoked Camels - they were horrendous!

God this brings back memories, even though the mere thought of smoking now makes me feel sick. Like many others I was a young adult in the nineties and smoked Marlboro Lights Silk Cut, Camels and Gauloises Went to the US and felt very cool having a soft packet and failing to throw a ciggie into my mouth. Did anyone hear the crazy conspiracy theory about Marlboro being linked to the Ku Klux Klan as 'evidenced' by the three inverted triangles.on the packet? (told to me by a stoned sixth former so not exactly reliable source material).

I miss Gitanes!
Smoke socially a few times a week Marlboro gold usually.

Te the crushable packet.. I have a little hard cigarette case so can also keep the lighter in it.

Is it just me or does anyone else remember Marlboro Mediums? Briefly a thing in the early 2000s? Tail end of my smoking days.