Scour Old Cereal Bowls wrote:
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> Peter Boulding <pjb@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 14:17:27 GMT, Scour Old Cereal Bowls
> > <scouroldcerealbowls@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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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:
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> http://www.newyorker.com/re****ting/2008/05/05/080505fa_fact_sedaris
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> 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.
Most of the time I'd smoked menthols, can't remember the brand,
but after a meal I'd like a straight, like Pall Malls, or
sometimes one of those little cigar-like ones (can't remember
that brand either). You couldn't get them out here on the left
coast, I had to im****t them from Omaha.
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