Re: Cigarettes (completely OT)

From	"Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	aus.tv, aus.computers
Subject	Re: Cigarettes (completely OT)
Date	2015-08-22 06:08 +1000
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"felix_unger" <me@nothere.biz> wrote in message 
news:d3oq9eFki8sU1@mid.individual.net...
> On 20/08/2015 7:02 AM, Trevor Wilson wrote:
>> On 20/08/2015 5:43 AM, Rod Speed wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> "felix_unger" <me@nothere.biz> wrote in message
>>> news:d3ip05F4p4kU1@mid.individual.net...
>>>>
>>>> It occurred to be recently.. How do ppl know what brands of ciggies
>>>> are available these days, and their characteristics (strong, mild,
>>>> filter, etc.,), since packets are not longer on retail displays, and
>>>> there's no cigarette advertising anymore? sure, if someone has been
>>>> smoking the same kind (like forever) they would know what they
>>>> want/like.. but otherwise?
>>>
>>> Presumably they get real radical and check that stuff on the net or
>>> compare with other smokers when they are standing around outside
>>> wherever they work killing themselves with their cancer sticks.
>>>
>>> Just like they do with their weed or ice etc.
>>
>> **Well said.
>>
>> Who gives a flying fuck what brand addicts prefer? Shifting the deck 
>> chairs around the Titanic springs to mind.
>>
>
> I just wonder if there's as many brands and variants as there were in the 
> days when smokes could be advertised freely.

I bet there are, if only because the addicts can be remarkably
stuck in their ways about what they prefer to smoke.

Maybe rather less new ones tho but I'm not sure that there
was much of that when advertising was still allowed.

Presumably most of that new stuff is with eFags etc.

> how could we forget Paul Hogans "Anyhow, have a Winfield", Tony Barber the 
> "Cambridge whistler",

Don’t remember that at all.

> the Marloro man, or Stuart Wagstaff with his gold packet of Benson and 
> Hedges

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Cigarettes (completely OT) felix_unger <me@nothere.biz> - 2015-08-19 17:19 +1000
  Re: Cigarettes (completely OT) "Max" <max@val.morgan> - 2015-08-19 15:49 +0800
    Re: Cigarettes (completely OT) "SG1" <lost@the.races.com> - 2015-08-19 21:41 +1000
      Re: Cigarettes (completely OT) felix_unger <me@nothere.biz> - 2015-08-19 22:11 +1000
        Re: Cigarettes (completely OT) Trevor <trevor@home.net> - 2015-08-19 23:03 +1000
        Re: Cigarettes (completely OT) Clocky <notgonna@happen.com> - 2015-08-19 23:57 +0800
  Re: Cigarettes (completely OT) 116e32s@gmail.com - 2015-08-19 05:04 -0700
  Re: Cigarettes (completely OT) "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2015-08-20 05:43 +1000
    Re: Cigarettes (completely OT) Trevor Wilson <trevor@SPAMBLOCKrageaudio.com.au> - 2015-08-20 07:02 +1000
      Re: Cigarettes (completely OT) "dechucka" <dechucka1@hotmail.com> - 2015-08-20 07:12 +1000
        Re: Cigarettes (completely OT) Trevor Wilson <trevor@SPAMBLOCKrageaudio.com.au> - 2015-08-20 07:58 +1000
          Re: Cigarettes (completely OT) "dechucka" <dechucka1@hotmail.com> - 2015-08-20 08:31 +1000
          Re: Cigarettes (completely OT) "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2015-08-20 10:12 +1000
            Re: Cigarettes (completely OT) Trevor Wilson <trevor@SPAMBLOCKrageaudio.com.au> - 2015-08-20 12:45 +1000
      Re: Cigarettes (completely OT) felix_unger <me@nothere.biz> - 2015-08-22 00:19 +1000
        Re: Cigarettes (completely OT) "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2015-08-22 06:08 +1000
          Re: Cigarettes (completely OT) Buzz <buzz_bee@gmail.com> - 2015-08-24 19:44 +1000
            Re: Cigarettes (completely OT) "Max" <max@val.morgan> - 2015-08-24 18:30 +0800
            Re: Cigarettes (completely OT) "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2015-08-24 20:46 +1000
    Re: Cigarettes (completely OT) "Max" <max@val.morgan> - 2015-08-20 11:53 +0800
      Re: Cigarettes (completely OT) "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2015-08-20 14:37 +1000
        Re: Cigarettes (completely OT) felix_unger <me@nothere.biz> - 2015-08-22 09:40 +1000
          Re: Cigarettes (completely OT) "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2015-08-22 13:38 +1000
            Re: Cigarettes (completely OT) felix_unger <me@nothere.biz> - 2015-08-27 08:23 +1000
              Re: Cigarettes (completely OT) BruceS <bruces42@hotmail.com> - 2015-08-27 10:55 -0600
                Re: Cigarettes (completely OT) felix_unger <me@nothere.biz> - 2015-08-28 09:55 +1000
                Re: Cigarettes (completely OT) BruceS <bruces42@hotmail.com> - 2015-09-09 08:24 -0600
              Re: Cigarettes (completely OT) "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2015-08-28 06:22 +1000
                Re: Cigarettes (completely OT) felix_unger <me@nothere.biz> - 2015-08-28 09:57 +1000
                Re: Cigarettes (completely OT) "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2015-08-28 13:35 +1000
                Re: Cigarettes (completely OT) felix_unger <me@nothere.biz> - 2015-08-28 17:39 +1000
                Re: Cigarettes (completely OT) "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2015-08-28 19:33 +1000
                Re: Cigarettes (completely OT) felix_unger <me@nothere.biz> - 2015-08-29 07:08 +1000
                Re: Cigarettes (completely OT) "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2015-08-29 09:27 +1000
                Re: Cigarettes (completely OT) felix_unger <me@nothere.biz> - 2015-08-29 09:44 +1000
                Re: Cigarettes (completely OT) "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2015-08-29 14:14 +1000
                Re: Cigarettes (completely OT) felix_unger <me@nothere.biz> - 2015-08-29 19:00 +1000
                Re: Cigarettes (completely OT) "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2015-08-29 19:24 +1000
                Re: Cigarettes (completely OT) "SG1" <lost@the.races.com> - 2015-08-29 20:53 +1000
                Re: Cigarettes (completely OT) "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2015-08-30 06:26 +1000
                Re: Cigarettes (completely OT) "SG1" <lost@the.races.com> - 2015-08-30 06:51 +1000
                Re: Cigarettes (completely OT) "dechucka" <dechucka1@hotmail.com> - 2015-08-30 07:59 +1000
                Re: Cigarettes (completely OT) "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2015-08-30 08:36 +1000
                Re: Cigarettes (completely OT) "dechucka" <dechucka1@hotmail.com> - 2015-08-30 08:45 +1000
                Re: Cigarettes (completely OT) "dechucka" <dechucka1@hotmail.com> - 2015-08-29 12:29 +1000
                Re: Cigarettes (completely OT) "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2015-08-29 14:58 +1000
                Re: Cigarettes (completely OT) "dechucka" <dechucka1@hotmail.com> - 2015-08-29 15:22 +1000
                Re: Cigarettes (completely OT) "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2015-08-29 17:10 +1000
                Re: Cigarettes (completely OT) "dechucka" <dechucka1@hotmail.com> - 2015-08-30 07:53 +1000
                Re: Cigarettes (completely OT) "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2015-08-30 08:31 +1000
                Re: Cigarettes (completely OT) "dechucka" <dechucka1@hotmail.com> - 2015-08-30 08:52 +1000
                Re: Cigarettes (completely OT) felix_unger <me@nothere.biz> - 2015-08-29 19:04 +1000
                Re: Cigarettes (completely OT) "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2015-08-29 19:26 +1000
                Re: Cigarettes (completely OT) "dechucka" <dechucka1@hotmail.com> - 2015-08-30 07:57 +1000
                Re: Cigarettes (completely OT) "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2015-08-30 08:35 +1000
                Re: Cigarettes (completely OT) "dechucka" <dechucka1@hotmail.com> - 2015-08-30 08:54 +1000
                Re: Cigarettes (completely OT) "dechucka" <dechucka1@hotmail.com> - 2015-08-30 07:55 +1000
                Re: Cigarettes (completely OT) "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2015-08-30 08:33 +1000
                Re: Cigarettes (completely OT) "dechucka" <dechucka1@hotmail.com> - 2015-08-30 08:56 +1000
          Re: Cigarettes (completely OT) Trevor <trevor@home.net> - 2015-08-22 16:00 +1000
          Re: Cigarettes (completely OT) Trevor Wilson <trevor@SPAMBLOCKrageaudio.com.au> - 2015-08-22 16:20 +1000

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