don't they also have like four times the tar or something. like they are way worse for your throat I thought.

don't do drugs, don't do alkahall, don't do what what

Blacks are amazing but they're so incredibly bad for you.

I am amazed they are illegal in Maryland though!

i generally buy malboro reds because the lights taste like nothing. however, i think i am gonna stop smoking.

Al Capones cigarillos

Non-filtered though, filtered ones suck

They taste like cognac, they got rum ones too but I think cognacs better. Sometimes I just lick the wrap on em' its so damn good.

Oh man, the cognac ones are pretty delicious.

Cigarettes suck.

Now pipe tobacco, that's where it's at.  I smoke Captain Black Regular which has a mellow taste and a scintillating aroma.  When I smoke my hookah, I use Al Waha shisha which I import from a company in Jordan.  It's expensive, but it's one of the best shisha in the world and the most pleasurable smoke you can get in the planet IMO.

When I'm in the mood for smoking something on the go then I usually pop in a swisher sweet (which are cheap and nasty) or al capone cognac.

Thats right brother you listen to us seaman we know where its at when it comes to poisoning our bodies.

Also I got my bro a hookah for graduation and some apple flavored Shisha and that stuff is so damn good, it actually clears your congestion up its such clean smoke.

I want to buy a traditional tobacco pipe on of these days so I might try Captain Black. Is that the name of the tobacco you use? Because I bought some C.Blacks in japan out of a cigarette vending machine and they were cigarillos

Captain Black is a distributor of tobacco (the shredded pipe tobacco is called Captain Black White or Captain Black Regular).  For added taste, mix a tiny drop of honey with the tobacco.  It takes a while to burn but you'll get a thick and sweet tasting smoke.

For a good hookah smoke, put ice in the water and it's actually really soothing... but it's still pretty bad for you.  For the non hookah smokers, an average bowl equals about 3 cigarettes but you can smoke it for about an hour and since there's no fucking additives or chemicals it's nowhere near as addicting as commercials cigs.  Recently I started making hookah bowls out of fruit and the taste is fantastic.

I used to smoke camel unfiltered but it started turning my fingers and teeth black so I quit.  Before he died, my grandfather was a tobacco distributor and he told me what they put in cigarettes and it's pretty appalling.  I roll my eyes whenever people tell me I'll get cancer from smoking but cigarettes are like 99% man made and full of shit that no man should ever put in their bodies.

I might go buy a pipe in the next few days and try that captain black with honey because these cigarillos have given me like a constant cough since I started taking them up regularly again. So, I want to try winging myself off of them for a little while.

Try the pipe without honey first because getting pipe tobacco to burn properly is like an ART.  I still don't understand how those guys in the movies can just shove a match in the bowl and smoke away.  I had to relight my first pipe 20 times in 5 minutes before I learned how to pack the darn thing.

I just did a google search on those Djarum Cloves and I had no idea they were so bad for you.  It's only 60% tobacco but the cloves are some sort of anesthetic that numbs your mouth and leads to internal bleeding.  I used to smoke those while in port in the middle east and I'm glad I didn't get addicted!  A friend who smokes cloves recommended shit called Sampoerna Xtra.  Apparently the guys who produce Blacks took over the company and stopped producing them so maybe there's some sort of tobacco market I have to find to buy these things.

EDIT: Turns out there's a brand called Zanzibar Xtra which is the same as Sampoerna's.

newport 100s

also djarums are disgusting i swear to god you can taste the cancer and this is coming from someone who smokes newport 100s

i hate smoking. after a while the joy of doing it goes away entirely and you just do it because withdrawal is the worst fucking thing. i pride myself on being a pretty clear-minded, rational guy, but withdrawal turns me into a blubbering mess of shit. i just continue smoking because i really don't have the guts to face a month long period of depression and irrational anxiety. i don't really think i'm far enough from the edge to do that. most people aren't.

i'm more or less satisfied with the choices i've made in my life, but picking up smoking is the one thing that i honestly REGRET

so yeah my favorite brand is NONE. basically whatever makes me cough up less shit.

thats sad hundley

When I smoked, I didn't have a preference at all. Whatever was buy 1 get 1, as long as it wasn't lights. Or Camel Menthols. I usually like these though: Turkish Royals, Malboro Mediums and Menthols and Milds.

Yo Hundley, you could try getting Nicotene lozenges. I tried the patch before, but it irritated the hell out of my skin. The gum I've been told to stay away from. But these Commit lozenges aren't at all half bad. You should try to see if you have a program that hands them out for free in your area. That's what I did.

thats sad hundley

yeah

it's a pretty inevitable thing for people who get addicted to smoking. and unfortunately the one thing that nobody really stresses is how extraordinarily addictive nicotine is. a couple weeks of smoking and it can very easily become this snowball effect, particularly if you think you have some sort of control over your reaction to this stuff. the moment you start to really dig the sensation on any level, you're pretty much fucked unless you make some deliberate effort to stay away from them.

so yeah if any of you people think of yourselves as being NOT-ADDICTED but still smoke and DO NOT want to end up a blubbering mess that relies on smoking to get through every hour of your life, you may want to double-check the garbage you're putting into your system!

you just have my sympathies if you've already hopelessly addicted.

Yo Hundley, you could try getting Nicotene lozenges. I tried the patch before, but it irritated the hell out of my skin. The gum I've been told to stay away from. But these Commit lozenges aren't at all half bad. You should try to see if you have a program that hands them out for free in your area. That's what I did.

hey i just looked these up and they sound pretty neat. hadn't even heard of nicotine lozenges before. i may give these a try. did they work well for you? what brand did you use?

at this point i may bite the bullet and buy some of these myself if i can't find them anywhere for free.

it hits me pretty bad when i try to give up.

at work, i tried to give up smoking on one of my shifts and everybody said i'd just turned into a complete asshole. i couldn't concentrate properly, couldn't think straight and i snapped at people for stupid reasons.

the next time i was on shift i was smoking again and it was like the complete opposite. everyone was applauding me for hard work and for being a nice guy, thinking ahead and solving problems easily.

it's why i'm reluctant to give up again until i have a lot of time off to get my head straight and wean myself off them.

as for the brand, anything does me except the really gross cheap shit that literally tastes like chemicals.