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.

Like the movies innit? 😉

Another lover of Consulate here. I miss them so much.

Where I live, imported menthol cigarettes are very easy to get hold of, but they are nowhere near as good as the old menthols.

God, yes! Or Camels if I was feeling sophisticated. When I lived in France, everyone smoked Marlboro or Lucky Strike. I still have my Zippo, probably always will, it was a birthday present.

I remember the Marlboro girls coming into our halls in uni and giving away free packets of rebmarlboro. I usually smoked lights, but I always loved a freebie!

When I was a teenager we used to wrap the first fag from the packet in the pull bit of foil, and heat the cigarette with a lighter. We called it 'making a biscuit' and it made it much more potent when we smoked it afterwards.

I haven't smoked for 17 years. Very occasionally I still fancy one, but I know I probably wouldn't like it.

Yes! I was at secondary school in the late 80s / early 90s and the staff room had a smoking end. Hard to imagine now!

When I started work (mid 90s) every office had a smoking room and it was a great opportunity ti get all the gossip as you had senior and junior staff all together chatting.

When I was 15 and started smoking, 10 Embassy No 1s cost £1.96 :D

Marlborough Lights at sixth form; Richmond (cheap) or Marlborough Lights in first year.

Switched to rollies in second year and never looked back until I quit (officially when I was 25 but remained a social smoker into my early 30s) - couldn't stomach the taste of straights after I got used to roll ups!

God I miss smoking.

When I had my first DC in 1992, the maternity wing at the hospital had a smoking room for patients!

Still do smoke reds.
only after a trip on Ryanair. €40 for 200

Ah so many memories! I used to smoke Marlboro Lights and then later Menthol - my ex smoked Dunhills or Marlboro Red, I preferred the Dunhills, the Reds were so strong!! Haven’t been a ‘proper’ smoker for 10+ years but might have a couple socially every now and again.

They’re bigger aren’t they? Or they smoke like they are.

I was always a Marlboro Lights girl, but Reds used to blow my head off.

Also they’re in an Amy Winehouse lyric so they must be hardcore!

I'm in my 30's and only gave up smoking cigarettes about a year ago now.

Malbro Red was my cigarette before I switched to gold(lights) and now nothing.

They just always tasted better, and had a smoother tabacoo flavour for me.

It was £14 a pack. 😳

I'm now nearing the end of vaping, and hope to be free of my crutch by August time.

It was usually Piccadilly cigarettes in The Sweeney. I don't know if they're still around. A woodwork teacher at my secondary school used to smoke Craven A - I remember the smoke being very dense and white.

First job I had in a factory, there was this woman who smoked Raffles. I’d run out of bennies one morning so asked if I could borrow one. Omg it was like smoking fibreglass loft insulation 🤢

When I started work (mid 90s) every office had a smoking room and it was a great opportunity ti get all the gossip as you had senior and junior staff all together chatting.

When I started work in 2001, everyone, even the non smokers used to congregate in the smokers area. A couple of years later, everyone congregated in the non smokers area and the smokers nipped to the smokers area for a quick cig. Until 2007 when everyone had to smoke outside. There was a pretty quick culture change and hardening of attitudes towards smokers in the early 2000s.

I smoked mainly Silk Cut (whenever I could steal them off my mum) or you would go halves on a 10 pack of Lambert and Butler with your mate. When I was earning my own money it was B&H Silver. I still smoked them until 4 years ago.
I remember dating an Irish guy in the 90s who would smoke Majors. They were short and the the pack had a tuck in envelope opening. I recently rewatched Cracker and its the brand Robbie Coltrane smokes.

I went through a stage of smoking Sobranie cocktail cigarettes in my early 20s. Loved them - the colours and the gold tips and they always got me a lot of attention on nights out! Also liked the 'slim' cigs you'd pick up abroad.

Glad I don't smoke now but every so often I have nostalgia for how fun it could be...

When I worked in a corner shop I memorized the contents of all the cigarette brands....reds were strong but not the strongest... They were like .8 whereas some were 1.0.

From memory the strongest were Rothemens?? And woodbines I think.

I thought Marlborough Reds were always notorious for being the most hard-core cigarettes? A bloke I know who chain smoked them had 2 strokes at the age of 48.

I have never smoked, but pretty much all the people I knew who smoked in the 90s/00s smoked Marlborough Lights.

Marlboro not Marlborough (that's a posh school isn't it?!)

Marlboro red and lucky strike back in the day.

after I graduated if I was feeling flush I would buy YSL! Anyone remember those?

gave up 8 years ago. So thankful I did.

Aaaah I'd chew my arm off for a skinny Vogue right now

DH and I smoked in our youth, and Marlboro Red were our 'treat' cigs. They were just so fabulous and 'hit the spot'. Which probs makes them 10x more lethal than any other cigs.

Is the lighting-up method for a cigarette important? Apparently, for fine cigars, only long matches made of cedar will do. And it is also necessary to allow all the sulphur to burn away before lightning, or the cigar flavour will be tainted. No Zippo or Ronson lighters allowed!

If Marlboro Red was the cigarette for hardcases, what about the unfiltered brands like Senior Service, Player's and Capstan (there's probably others out there)? Does anybody have any first-hand experience of these? My old man stopped smoking upon the realisation he'd got through ten Senior Service in less than an hour at a football match!