What brand of cigarettes did your parents smoke?

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They smoked more than one brand, but the main ones I remember are Raleigh cigarettes, which were packaged with coupons. If you accumulated enough coupons you could redeem them (just like the trading stamps grocery stores used to offer) for stuff, and our house was full of stuff redeemed with Raleigh coupons. We even had a Raleigh coupon ping-pong table. We also had a lot of stuff redeemed from both green and yellow trading stamps.

My mom also smoked Kent.....my dad didn't smoke. My mom later switched to Salem and then quit.

Mom smoked Benson & Hedges menthol.

Winston 100s. All my life till dad died and mom quit .

Pall Mall filterless, which they called “Paul Mall.” Then my mother switched to low tar True brand when it came out in the late 60s. She eventually quit, he didn’t and died of lung cancer at age 72.

My mom started out with unfiltered Lucky Strikes, but then switched to Benson and Hedges 100s.

She used to write a note to the man at the drugstore counter, then send my 5-year-old self off to the store, where I'd hand him the note and some money, and he'd hand me a pack of cigarettes. Talk about different times.

Not surprisingly, my mom died of lung cancer, but she made it to 90.

Benson & Hedges menthol lights 100s. I used to pick up a carton of them for my mom at the gas station with no questions asked.

My mom chain smoked Marlboro reds until she was in her 40s then switched to Marlboro Light…..she died of lung cancer at 67.

My dad never smoked at home or in the car, but he smoked Chesterfields at work in a steel mill. Mom was a stealth smoker, only when she was visiting her sister or one of her brothers. She never lit up in front of us kids, but we saw her through the windows and doors. She kept a pack of Salems in her pocketbook.

Dad hasn’t smoked since retired thirty years ago, nor Mom since her brother died. They are 85 and 82, respectively.

Neither of my parents smoke (in fact, they have always detested it), but both of my grandmothers did. My paternal grandmother was a lifelong Marlboro Red smoker. I think she started when she was around 11 years old. She died at 61 of lung cancer that had metastasized to her brain. My paternal grandfather also smoked, but he quit cold turkey when I was a baby and never went back. He ended up living until 80.

My mom Smoked Benson & Hedges Delux. It's interesting to see women many moms smoked them.

Mom smoked Vantage.

My parents never smoked.

In 5th and6th grade my mates and I would look for bottles lying about and cash them in 2 cents a bottle, Once we had 25 cents it was off to the store to buy a pack of cigs.

We were young but health conscious so we always went with something filtered. Never remember ever being denied the ability to buy,

Mom only smoked occasionally, if someone offered her one. Dad smoked regular Camels until he quit.

My mother smoked Silva Thins 100s. My dad didn't smoke, but he chewed Skoal tobacco.

My mom smoked two packs of Larks per day for over 50 years. She's 88.

My father smoked Philip Morris, then gave up smoking cold turkey after a stroke.

My father smoked Lucky Strikes. My mother never smoked.

I smoked a variety of different brands until I quit six years ago.

My dad smoked Camels.

My mom also smoked Kents. The long 100 ones. She was a closet smoker for years until my brother and I told her we knew and she should stop being so weird about it. My dad didn’t smoke cigarettes, but he occasionally smoked cigars.

I started smoking my senior year of high school. Marlboro Lights, usually. I’d also steal my mom’s Kents sometimes. I hid it until I was in college. I quit a long time ago, but FUCK if I could have a Marlboro Light without the smell and health risks, I so would.

Marlboro

Mom smoked Parliaments. She lived on coffee and cigarettes to maintain her figure. Dad smoked Larks and my stepmother smoked Salems. And my aunt smoked Kents.

MORE. Mom smoked those long-ass, brown More cigs.

What kind of messaging is this?

Raleigh, then Winston, then she died of lung cancer at 55.

Both my parents smoked Pall Malls. My father died from lung and liver cancer (he was a drinker, too) at 64, and my mother had a heart attack at 68, but recovered and quit smoking. I never smoked.

When I was very young, Dad smoked Marlboros. I think I was in junior high when he switched to Benson and Hedges. I remember because that’s when I started stealing his cigarettes. He always bought cartons. I’d only steal when the carton had between five and eight packs left. Too close to a new carton, or too close to an empty carton, I reasoned he might notice the discrepancy. AFAIK, he never did.

Mom was only a social smoker; she took whatever was offered.

My mom smoked Benson & Hedges 100s. Remember those? They were the "classy" cigarettes lol. They had quite a slick advertising campaign in the 80s to appeal to the Yuppie market. She quit 30 years ago and she says she still misses it.

Do they even make cigarette adverts anymore? It seems I only recall seeing them in magazines back then. Or on billboards. I can't recall the last time (in decades) I've seen a cigarette ad.

My mom also smoked B & H 100s. I think they had the most tar of any cigs on the market. Dad smoked menthols-maybe Marlboro, I can't remember the brand. Whatever, they were probably loaded with fiberglass.

My grandmother smoked unfiltered Philip Morris, which was discontinued long ago. It was also the preferred brand of both Bette Davis and Lucille Ball.

[quote]My mom also smoked B & H 100s. I think they had the most tar of any cigs on the market.

My mom smoked the full flavored ones and they were strong as shit, a very heavy smoke. When I was a teenager I would sometimes sneak one out of her pack when she was in the other room. I smoked Marlboro Lights until I quit years ago.

Benson & Hedges

More (brown cigs that looked like skinny cigars)

Virginia Slim Super Slims

When I was a kid in the 80s everybody's dad who smoked, smoked Marlboro Reds or Winstons.

R23 Annette Funicello also smoked LARKS!

My dad always smoked Winstons, but for whatever unk0own reason he switched to Marlboro. He kept smoking until he got emphysema and ended up with congestive heart failure. He was in and out of the hospital 4 times in 6 months, but somehow stabilized. He did need an oxygen concentrator machine at home, and he survived another 10 years, but he was housebound and his quality of life sucked.

Let me add that my Chesterfield smoking father had a perfect manicure.

r37 how old was he when he got congestive heart failure?

Lucky Strikes then Marlboro Reds then Marlboro Lights. Just like most men in the 50s thru 70s. My mother never smoked. He died at 59 after quitting smoking at 50. It's a crapshoot.

Back in the 60s, my mom bought Bugler brand loose tobacco and rolled her own.

Only dad did, always Camels.

Funny that in Mad Men their account was Lucky Strike. Nobody under 50 smoked Luckys in the 1960s.

My dad smoked Camels, unfiltered. He died young in the 1970s, not as a result of smoking.

Dad smoked Marlboros, but he quit at 30, which is the exact age I was when I quit.

Dad turned 89 last week. Still up and about!

My ex-partner's father smoked Lucky Strikes and had since he was a teenager.

In the 1960s, he would have been in his 20s.

Canadian here. Dad smoked Players unfiltered and Mom smoked Players Plain. They switched to Rothmans when Rothmans sponsored some local event.

Dad would die of lung cancer and mom would die of emphysema, both in their early 70s.

My mother and maternal aunt smoked Kents. My aunt told me they did it behind their mother’s back when they were young, because my grandmother wouldn’t have allowed it. My mother died from metastatic lung cancer at the age of 83.

Long after my mother died, my aunt told me that after she had to have a hysterectomy (which would have been in the late 1960s or early 70s based on my recollection), my mother gave my aunt a pack of Kents as a get-well present (yeah, they hated each other)!

My father smoked cigars and a pipe. He probably also smoked Kents, because my aunt claimed my mother quit smoking before I was born, but I remember packs of Kents in the house when I was a little kid.

My dad had smoked Camels. He gave them up before I was born. My mother smoked Parliaments.

Mom smoked Matinée Slims menthols and whenever those were unavailable she puffed on Benson & Hedges menthols. Due to the fact Canada has federally banned menthols for years now she smokes Next cigarettes. She's 73 and still ticking. She has a smoker's cough. She smokes about 1/4 of a pack per day; she cut down drastically while pregnant with me.

Her best friend and housemate who also raised me - they were both very heterosexual - smoked Viscount 100s for four decades until she died at home of small cell lung cancer. Mum took an unpaid LOA to care for her in the last seven months of her life. She probably half a pack per day, always between sips of coffee with cream. Oh and they smoked inside.

I do not smoke. Not even once. It's gross.

Chesterfields and whiskey

Mom smoked Salems but quit at age 50. She lived 31 years longer. She only smoked a few cigarettes a day. I used to steal cigs from her pack in her purse when I was 14. Became instantly hooked and used to ride my bike to the gas station vending machine where I'd get a pack for 45 cents. I smoked any menthol I could find in the machine, but as a gayling, I liked Mores(sp?). I swear they tasted like peppermint.

Father chain smoked Camel filters until he died of COPD at age 90.

Sadly, I still smoke at age 63 and have multiple health issues, apparently none of them related to smoking (yet) but I would be in much better overall health if/when I quit. And richer, too! My hubs and I used to smoke Marlboro Menthol 100's until flavored cigarettes were banned (which we voted for) in California. We quit, then picked up Marlboro light 100's. Like mine, everyone in his family smoked except his brother, the fire captain.

Mom smoked Pall Mall Red (no filter). She modernized to Virginia Slims. I can’t remember what she smoked after that.

[quote]My grandmother smoked unfiltered Philip Morris, which was discontinued long ago. It was also the preferred brand of both Bette Davis and Lucille Ball.

Lucy's show was sponsored by Philip Morris for a while, but she was a loyal Chesterfield smoker.

Mommy smoked meth and daddy smoked weed.

My mom was the More smoker...but Grandma was a Marlboro Reds woman, through and through.

Chesterfield and Philip Morris were made by the same company.

[quote]Chesterfield and Philip Morris were made by the same company.

After 1999, yes - but not while Lucy was around.

Mom- Virginia Slims Menthol Light

Dad- Benson & Hedges Light 100s

Joan Crawford smoked a menthol cigarette brand called Alpine.

Ghastly.

My mom smoked variously Virginia Slim, Salem and late in life when she'd 'quit' smoking except for the occasional one, Capri. My dad smoked no-filter Pall Mall in the red pack his whole life. They both lived to be 86 and a half.

Dad smoked Marlboro reds. He as diagnosed with COPD in his late 70s and died when he was 82.

Wow is my Dad the only one who smoked Kools? My mom smoked, but quit when I was pretty young. My stepmother smoked Virginia Slims Menthol, and my aunt smoked some really skinny ones- Capri's?

When she was younger, my mother smoked Camel Light 100s or Marlboro Light 100s; now she smokes Pall Mall Ultra Light 100s.

In 1954 45% of all US adults were daily addicted cig smokers. Today it’s about 11%. All because of shame, new law's , more restrictions, Brooke Shields, lots of increased taxes and health fears .

"Run down to the store [a mom & pop corner grocery in a small PA town, circa 1966] and get me a pack of Kents."

A 10 year-old could do this routinely for his mother back in the day . . .

Benson & Hedges

Alpine was one of those brands that came with coupons you could save for "gifts". Crawford was "thrifty".

Free small cig packages with 3-4 inside given free to a very young looking 17 yo on his first flight in the 1960s. Free cigs and free booze and lots of leg room..

My mom smokes Eve Emeralds. My dad quit when I was quite young, but I think he smoked Kools and switched to Basics. He claims he quit because the price went up (still less than a dollar ). My mom said it was because of health issues (ulcers). My dad supplemented his income by selling cigarettes out of his senior living apartment later in life. He’d buy in Indiana and resell them in Michigan. He “retired” when gas went up and Indiana increased their cigarette tax to be pretty comparable to Michigan’s. My mom’s been going to Indiana lately because her brand is hard to find around here.

I didn't know Eves were still around. They were like the bastard stepdaughter of Virginia Slims back in the day.

I don't think Benson & Hedges are made anymore, unless they have to be special ordered from a smoke shop. I haven't seen them in quite a few years.

You've got your own cigarette now, baby.

You've come a long, long way!

Not only did I get sent to buy my Dad's Kools, but pick up my step-mother's Ortho Gyno creme. I was about 11/12 at the time., and was totally embarrassed each time.

[quote] Alpine was one of those brands that came with coupons you could save for "gifts". Crawford was "thrifty".

CHRISTINA, CLIP THE GOD DAMN COUPONS!

It was the Bicentennial era, so I was 5 or 6. I remember walking down to the corner store, picking up my Mom's cigarettes and a big Pepsi, sometimes a honey bun for her and a popsicle for me. I had to time it so that I was back before Another World started at 3:00. I wonder if so many Moms smoked because it kept them thin.

[quote] We were young but health conscious so we always went with something filtered. Never remember ever being denied the ability to buy

When I was 7 or so I would walk about a mile to the pharmacy and they would sell me cigarettes for my mom. She'd called ahead the first few times until they knew I wasn't getting them for me, just walking them home to her, but still, they sold them to me. Plus a soda, of course.

I also had to scurry home before Another World came on.......

[quote] I wonder if so many Moms smoked because it kept them thin.

Cigarettes were the original Ozempic.

My father smoked Winston 100s, and also went through a Tiparillo phase (early 1970s) when I was very young. He bought Winston 100s by the carton & kept them in the glove compartment of his car. I stole a pack at 10 years old, at my best-friend-next-door's goading/request (she was 12, just started middle school & generally a bad influence). My father blew through cartons so quickly (two-plus packs per day) that he didn't notice, or at least I never heard about it. He quit cold-turkey when he was 52 (a few years after he quit drinking), and lived to 86. (no cardiac/respiratory issues)

Meanwhile, my mother was essentially the definition a "social smoker" -- at cocktail parties, with a glass of wine after work, after dinner with coffee. She smoked whatever cigarettes my father, or her friends, had. And seemed to be able to "turn it off" (so to speak). She never carried cigarettes in her purse, nor took them to work. Didn't smoke in the car. The only times I can recall her smoking during the daytime was while we were on summer vacation at the beach -- she & her sorority sisters would sit around with those "Cocktails in a Can", smoking, while playing Bridge

After my parents separated, she smoked less (more & more of her friends were quitting as well). She'd buy a pack of Benson & Hedges 100s that she kept in a decorative wooden box in the living room which would last her a while -- having one here or there, with a glass of wine, after a particularly stressful day at work (or divorce lawyers). She had no problem quitting entirely, when she met a staunch non-smoker after the divorce.

Pall Mall red pack in the 1960s, then Benson & Hedges. He smoked until his death from COPD when he was almost 80. We are lucky he lived as long as he did, but his death was brutal and I wouldn’t wish it on anyone.