Cigarette brand stereotypes?
When I was in the ‘states most smokers at my small liberal arts college smoked Camel Light. ‘cool’ frat guys and jocks tended towards Marly lights, as did some sorority girls. I actually got the gas station that everyone got their cigs from (hey, it was a small school in a small town) to stock American Spirits then people started shifting from Camel Lights to those. Menthol smokers tended to be from less affluent families, but would end up switching to Camels. I think where people came from also influenced what they smoked. GPCs (we used to call the Good People Cigarettes) were for the really poor kids. Stoners tended to smoke Winstons (esp. when they started advertising as organic or something). I started out with Marly Reds (smuggled Reds were more common than other American smokes in Vancouver) when I went to school. Switched to Camels, then Camel Lights, then American Spirits. I’d often get Dunhill internationals or Export A Greens/John Player Specials (which I used to smoke in HS)
American Spirit cigarettes give you organic lung cancer Actually, there is some evidence that it is the radioactivity that comes from burning the pesticides used on tobacco that increases the risk of lung cancer for smokers. Since I can’t get organic cigarettes where I live, my research into this scared me into quitting! Also, I wonder which came first – the fact that black people tend to smoke menthols, or the fact that menthols are strongly marketed towards blacks? As a teenage badass rebel, I smoked camel unfiltered. I would say those are the cigarettes of choice for reform school kids who think they’re tough. People who just want to pretend they’re smoking smoke Capris. Sorority girls, as it has been said, smoke Marlboro lights. And in France, a lot of people roll their own just because it’s cheaper.
