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Funny those smokers.

A friend of mine usually is fed up with a cigarette about 3/4 through it. So he ends up throwing the rest away. In France, however, he found cigarettes, that are shorter (size of non-filter cigarette but with a filter) and of his then favoured brand and loved to get those on the holiday.

On the other hand, I wonder whether people could actually tell the different brands apart in a blind test. I doubt it for most brands. Perhaps they'd manage for the strong/light distinction.

Discriminating drugs seems to be tricky. Apparently, most people can't tell most types of beer apart and are easily fooled into 'tasting' red wine when they're served white wine with food colouring. I haven't tried that on myself yet, but perhaps I am just too scared of the results...

There's a difference, Dave. Sometimes, when I do smoke, I prefer the X-Files favourites - that famous cowboy brand. There are some cigarettes from Greece which have a different -more mellow- taste, I've tried and actually preferred those. Finally, there's the really 'exceptional' cigarette. If someone were to offer me a Tor Oriental, I would be hard pressed to resist, even if I'd given up completely.

whats the differnce between cigarettes in a soft pack AND in a hard box if anybody knows pleasse please please mail me on my mail address i.e. sid19@hotmail.com I would really appreciate if someone tells me thanx

A friend posted:

As a longtime former smoker, i'd the calculus is this: your brand is your brand, and you get used to them. other brands taste funny. On the other hand, go without cigarettes for a day and you'll re-roll random butts out of a trailways bus station ashtray.

And yes, box v soft matters; they actually taste different in most cases. and the 100 v regular issue is the same -- a M#r1b0r0 Light 100 is a completely different experience, because you're not only dragging through more tobacco, but the filter is slightly longer.

And there's Tobacco Company Dastardliness at work too: Carltons' claim to fame is that they're the lowest tar and nicotine cigarettes. But the regular soft pack Carletons are actually on par with other low-tar brands, but the hard pack -- which are the lowest of the low -- are completely different" barely smokeable, managing to be both thin and acrid.