Cigarette brand stereotypes?
Matteo: LOL Last i heard, crusties choose Top. The hippy’s i rolled with rolled BaliShag… Metalheads like the marlboro man, for some odd reason (he seems to represent everything the counterculture hates, though i guess he is independent). cheapskates smoke Monarchs. cheese eating surrender monkeys smoke gauloises and “teh docgonzo” smoked Dunhills.
*Sorority girls smoke Marlboro Lights, as do frat boys that “only smoke at parties” since they’re usually bumming off said girls. *Hippie kids roll their own. *Burnout kids smoke Marlboro Reds. *College students that aren’t quite hippie (but dig the jam bands!) smoke American Spirits. *Euro-wannabe snooty types smoke Parliament Lights. *Coffeehouse types like cloves. Also people that “don’t really smoke” like to bum cloves (“mmm tastes like strawberry!”), and frequently hack up a lung when they inhale too deeply. I started out on Marlboro 100s and quickly moved to Reds, smoked those for about three years or so (got too harsh for me, I found menthol were better when we moved to a hot climate), then moved to Kool Milds which were my best friend’s brand (smoked those for a couple years), then ended up with Virginia Slims menthol ultra lights (smoked those six years ’til I quit). The “blacks smoke menthol” stereotype held up in my experience; I took to warning people that I had menthols wh
Gays as a community do not seem, to my recollection, to have clear brand preferences. Portland has no good dance clubs, or at least back when I was interested in going to dance clubs it had none. The ones that sucked the least were all gay clubs, some of which it was handy to actually have gay friends to get into (Boxxes comes to mind). At any rate… I clearly remember several roving cigarette vendors and gay friends who relayed the following stereotype: Benson & Hedges == Buttfucks & Handjobs I feel dirty repeating that, no idea if it’s regional, but I’d be curious if anyone else has heard the same.
hmm – from my cigarette choices I appear to be a white female hippie goth from an affluent background with a liberal arts education. I am actually not any of those things. Well I was a bit of a goth when I smoked cloves – but I was just smoking the same brand as my boyfriend and I do have a liberal arts education (where I picked up my Marlboro Lights habit) I smoke Dunhills now – for no reason clear to myself and I do have to say I have never understood my people’s obsession with menthol – I never could smoke them. Oh and on topic – old ladies smoke Virginia Slims and 100’s and hippies roll their own.
