... And we never ate it again.

[mousepod]

Originally Posted by Strangler Lewis

At my most ambitious, I alternated between Camel non-filters, Lucky Strike and Chesterfield. Pall Mall was definitely the nastiest. On the other hand I also tried rolling my own with Drum. Too sweet.

Reminds me of a funny story. When I was a young and impressionable lad, I started smoking Lucky Strikes because I had an internship at a newspaper and Mel Gibson smoked them in The Year of Living Dangerously. A month later, when I found myself at a treatment center in the middle of the Arizona desert, my choice of brand came in handy. Every week, they would make a run to the local Circle K to pick up sundry goods. Since it was a center which focused on health and recovery, there were always a group of people who would buy "just one pack" of smokes with the idea that they were ready to quit. I'd get a carton of Luckies (L.S./M.F.T.!). Within two days, half of the smokers would be bumming cigarettes from the "smart" ones that bought cartons. The Marlboro Lights smokers were hit hardest by the bums. I almost never had to give up a cigarette...

[lizziebith]

Okay I need help from you clever folk. I tried googling them but found nothing: I used to smoke minty cigarettes that were NOT menthol, but kinda like Wintergreen LifeSavers. But I can't remember what they were called! For some reason Orbit gum keeps coming to mind, so it must have been a similar name. Anyway, when people would come to bum them off me, and I said what they were, I always enjoyed the hand-retraction action, and the look of revulsion on their faces!

[mousepod]

Originally Posted by lizziebith

Okay I need help from you clever folk. I tried googling them but found nothing: I used to smoke minty cigarettes that were NOT menthol, but kinda like Wintergreen LifeSavers. But I can't remember what they were called! For some reason Orbit gum keeps coming to mind, so it must have been a similar name. Anyway, when people would come to bum them off me, and I said what they were, I always enjoyed the hand-retraction action, and the look of revulsion on their faces!

Was it
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The Nat Sherman store was near my apartment in NY. I knew girls who smoked Fantasias. Fancy!

[lizziebith]

Aw no, they were....less fancy. (Couldn't afford Shermans!)

[lizziebith]

But for some reason that jogged my memory! They were Brights!

I smoked Bright Lights! LOL...