Peter Boulding <pjb@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 14:17:27 GMT, Scour Old Cereal Bowls
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>>Besides the issues of filtered/unfiltered and menthol/regular, and
>>oddities like clove cigarettes, is there any major difference between
>>the flavors of brands of cigarettes?
>
> There is indeed.
>
> It would be obvious even to any non-smoker if one of his companions
> was smoking Virginia tobacco (smooth), another Turkish (sweet), and
> another French black (pungent).
>
> But even within a single type of tobacco the quality of a ciggarette
> (in both senses) varies considerably between one brand and another,
> depending on the quality of the leaf, where it was grown, how much
> stalk goes into the mix, how the tobacco was dried (and, sometimes,
> rehydrated) how much potassium nitrate was added to keep it smoldering
> (which alters the temperature at which it burns), etc., etc..
>
> It's even more obvious to those of us who roll our own.
Do cigarette smokers ever significantly vary what they smoke for reasons
besides price and availability? For instance, are there people who like
one brand in the morning because they want a more pungent smoke, then
switch to another in the afternoon because it goes better with coffee,
and a third when they're out in a bar? Do many smokers actively try out
different brands to find the one they really like? Do people who smoke
say, Carletons, frequently try out new brands if say, Kents, advertises a
new, improved fresher flavor?
How often do people change what they smoke beyond a couple of brands,
like the one they first started to smoke when they were sneaking them
from their friend's mom's purse and then the next brand when they had
real money to spend when they were, say, 18.
David Sedaris wrote something in the New Yorker about different brands:
http://www.newyorker.com/re****ting/2008/05/05/080505fa_fact_sedaris
He talks a lot about the different associations he had with different
brands, but the issue of taste barely comes up, which is why I'm
wondering how many of, say, Marlboro's customers smoke them because of
the taste, vs. how many just smoke them because of brand identification
due to the cowboy ads, or because that's what they've always smoked.
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