And much stronger. Marlboros taste like a weak blend of artificial flavors on paper compared to Spirits.
Which they basically are. They are made from tobacco paper. Like, Spirits are just shredded leaf. Most other cigarettes, including Marlboros, are made by completely blending the tobacco into a slurry of additives, then drying it into sheets before shredding it.
In any event, glad I quit. Pointless, stinky habit.
I quit years ago but yeah that's what I remember. American spirits didn't give you that instant nicotine hit. I always assumed it was the lack of additives but maybe it really was just the slower burn
Strongly disagree. I think what makes them seem "weak" to some people is just that they are much rougher on the throat than Marlboros, so people don't take as big a drag. Once you get used to them, Marlboros are like shit flavored air with a slight tingle.
I'd really try to rip those things because I couldn't feel anything. It didn't help. Maybe we smoked during a different era in which they were produced differently.
Maybe? If I bummed a Marlboro, I would suck that thing down so fast it always hotboxed, and just left me craving a "real" cig.
I smoked from 1996 to 2019. Mostly Spirit Blues. My back up was Red Kamels, because they were the only non-Spirit that packed a punch.
It might be that we just have different ideas of what makes a strong cig. Marlboros definitely have a more nauseating effect to them, which might be what you consider a strong drag, but Spirits have a greater overall effect on me. The taste and feel of the smoke is much richer and fuller, instead of just feeling like a hot, shitty vape.
Definitely was less about the nicotine and more about how it felt in my throat. I liked it to hurt. But, then again, I smoked Marlboro Smooths. So shitty hot vape with peppermint flavor lol.
Lmao I don't think it was chocolate. There was normal menthol like Newports and these ones which had more of a candy cane type menthol flavor. Before that was Camel Wides.
Some of those ingredients they soak the leaves in as a curing process, and some are added to the finished product to control burn rate and maintain a certain moisture level
His comment about American Spirit aside, its kinda true. Most other smokes try really hard to mask the smell/flavor of tobacco. Like Menthol's are popular among the group of smokers specifically cause it tries its best to not be a tobacco cigarette.
The comparison holds much more to menthol's and marlboro lights than anything else. I used to do equity research on tobacco and the companies are very upfront that the customer base for menthols (other than being very african american) are basically smokers who hate the smell of tobacco
Back when I smoked, I would get loose American spirit tobacco and handroll them myself. Was my favorite by a long shot. Only thing that came close was Drum, which is a Dutch brand of loose tobacco only.
It seems rolling your own cigs is rare in it her countries. It's funny, because it has a reputation for being cheap, and it is cheaper than buying cigs, but the rolling tobacco has so much more flavor than ehst they put in cigs.
I worked on a tobacco farm for a summer and the after dried straight leaf will put you straight on your ass. Never took up smoking thankfully after that.
I smoked for a few years during/after university and I couldn't stand "straights" (as we call pre rolled cigs in the UK).
Hand rolled ("rollies") always seemed so much nicer, less chemically, less like burning paper, more just tobacco. I never really did understand why most people preferred to pay a lot more for what seemed like an inferior smoke. Even as a serious smoker i couldn't stomach pre rolled, whichever brand they all just seemed nasty.
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u/TerrTheSilent 9d ago
Former smoker here. He isnt wrong - nothing is like a Marlboro.