crookesey Posted September 23, 2011 Share Posted September 23, 2011 I nicked a Park Drive from my auntie, it was then packs of 5 Park Drive, or four Domino if I was skint. I went on to filter tipped when they appeared, I never liked king size, I packed up totally 17 months ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
echo beach Posted September 23, 2011 Share Posted September 23, 2011 I started smoking too in the '50s aged 11 as you did and finished the same day after half of a Woodbine. Couldn't see any purpose in it. Every one of my mates smoked so the temptation was constant but I never gave in and I'm extremely glad I didn't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soft ayperth Posted September 23, 2011 Share Posted September 23, 2011 Started smoking mid 50s when I was thirteen, then quit cold turkey 1978 when I was 35. Haven't touched one since. Started on Park Drive then moved on to Embassy Tip. They used to include blue coupons in their packages and if you saved up enough coupons you could claim a gift such as a wallet. To qualify for a bicycle you'd literally have to smoke yourself to death. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joto Posted September 23, 2011 Share Posted September 23, 2011 Hi Rog you must be the same age as me, I started smoking when I started worked ( late 50s) back then nobody knew the dangers of tobacco. Anyway at lunchtimes me and this lad who I worked with would go and buy 5 Parkdrive. Then we shared, two and half ciggy's each. I daren't mention his name because on the Parson Cross thread he's been mentioned several times and everybody hated him. Never did get addicted and stopped nearly as soon as I started, thank goodness! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chem1st Posted September 23, 2011 Share Posted September 23, 2011 Can't remember the brand of the one I tried at 7, I think it may have been Mayfair. At 13 I bought a sleeve of Mayfair, with the intention of selling them. I'm currently smoking blue ridge on the pipe and I lament that UK DUTY PAID many times a day! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murphy Jnr Posted September 23, 2011 Share Posted September 23, 2011 Players No6, didn't they have green shield stamps in them? After that it was Benson & Hedges, More and finally Rothmans, stopped about 7 years ago Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ms Macbeth Posted September 23, 2011 Share Posted September 23, 2011 Started smoking mid 50s when I was thirteen, then quit cold turkey 1978 when I was 35. Haven't touched one since. Started on Park Drive then moved on to Embassy Tip. They used to include blue coupons in their packages and if you saved up enough coupons you could claim a gift such as a wallet. To qualify for a bicycle you'd literally have to smoke yourself to death. Ah, Embassy coupons. My mum and I saved them up, and I eventually got a hairdryer! I smoked from being about 16 in the early 60s (anyone remember Nelsons?) until I was almost 50. By then I'd been on Benson & Hedges for years. Been stopped 15 years and wouldn't touch a cig now. Apart from the damage they do to our health (I've got a dodgy lung which may or may not be smoking related) the cost is prohibitive. I'm enjoying my retirement, but I'd be a lot poorer (around £40+ a week) if I was still buying cigs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fizzydrink Posted September 23, 2011 Share Posted September 23, 2011 watched dad/mum/ brother's all smoke, i never saw point, breathed enough of theres in as a child never to want to force that stuff into my lungs voluntarily. oh one brother died aged 43 in 1998 autopsy report said, cause smoking related lung cancer if anyone wants a copy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chem1st Posted September 23, 2011 Share Posted September 23, 2011 Ah, Embassy coupons. My mum and I saved them up, and I eventually got a hairdryer! I smoked from being about 16 in the early 60s (anyone remember Nelsons?) until I was almost 50. By then I'd been on Benson & Hedges for years. Been stopped 15 years and wouldn't touch a cig now. Apart from the damage they do to our health (I've got a dodgy lung which may or may not be smoking related) the cost is prohibitive. I'm enjoying my retirement, but I'd be a lot poorer (around £40+ a week) if I was still buying cigs. I recall my granddad smoking superkings black and getting coupons, we'd visit, and he would tell us we could pick anything we wanted out of the catalogue, he used to smoke 60 a day. He eventually quit by reducing the amount he smoked at a rate of 1/day per week. A few weeks after getting down to 0 he was dead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny P Posted September 23, 2011 Share Posted September 23, 2011 Number six I started on, Tried everything else since (I worked for a tobacco firm in Surrey for 25 years) ended up on 30 Bensons a day until 4 years ago, My two eldest Grandsons kept coming home from school and saying that they didn't want me to die cus I smoked, So I went to the docs and explained I wanted to give up, He put me on the patches (on perscription, cheaper that way) And I've never wanted one since, But I still like the smell of ciggies, JP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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