Cigarette brand stereotypes?
Worked in a “gift shop” (read: head shop) for a few months after my high-school graduation. It was in the club/booze district, but during the day, so the clientele was (is) by no means an average of anywhere’s population. – The around-drinking-age boys (of any race) who listened to hip-hop, rap, or R&B all smoked Newports. Their girlfriends always wanted Marlboro Menthols or Parliaments. – The hippies with Guatemalan clothes, dreadlocks, dogs and/or kids liked American Spirits. They also rolled their own. – The demi-hippie slackers who bathed regularly and shopped at thrifts liked Camels. – Candy-raver types smoked Bidis. So did high-school kids who’d just turned eighteen and wanted something legal that “looked like a joint.” (They thought it was rolled in pot leaves. I never told ’em otherwise.) Strawberry was the most popular flavor. – Goths always wanted Djarum Blacks. Guess it clashed with their clothes. – I never met a straight man who smoked 100’s.. except for the 40+ year old am
