The Real Smoking Thread

Arthur said:
Alert forumites will have noticed that a quartet of summers has come and gone since this thread was last graced with a post. My goodness, 时光飞逝, as a Wuhan biolab bot would say!

I am checking in here mainly to offer commiserations and encouragement to fellow Smokers who are labouring under the strictures and privations of this pestilential lockdown, and most especially to offer solace to those who suffer the insufferable pontifications of the puritanical who define themselves primarily by what they are against, of which Smoking along with Travelling Freely are a prime target.

Now, as both Initiates and Longtime Lurkers here will know, it is almost a truism that We Smokers possess an exceptionally refined grasp of just how the Deep Indeterminabilities uncovered by Professors Schroedinger and Heisenberg undeniably apply to the alleged deleterious effects of Our Vaporous Occupation. We are assailed night and day by shrill voices, judgments, and condemnations, to which Caesar twenty-one days ago added his universal proscription on the sale of tobaccy.

It is dismaying that those who presume to pontificate on the imprudence of Smoking have yet to evince even a fermion's width of appreciation of the import and implication of what our fellow smokers (Erwin S and Werner H, vide supra) have pretty much established regarding the unbridgeable quantum gap between the epistemological status and ontic state at the heart of physical reality.

Much like the Wuhan virus Case Fatality Rate (as of this writing), We Just Don't Know, for Sure.

Neither do we know at this juncture when Caesar's harsh decree will be undone. I am convinced that not even Caesar in all his self-proclaimed wisdom and ostensible omnipotence knows, which is not just a philosophical conundrum but a political abomination.

So, Courage! Fortitude! Perseverance!

In the end, Liberty wins. Even if only for the few.
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TL;DR - Smoke 'em if you got 'em.
 
Down to my last three Lexington :crying: , i have resorted to smoking two Marlborough to one Lexington .


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Always wondered what the cheap cigarettes tasted like , well i am finding out now .
These D's used to cost R10 now R20 not that bad but not good either , better than the Marlborough switch .
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FNfal said:
Always wondered what the cheap cigarettes tasted like , well i am finding out now .
These D's used to cost R10 now R20 not that bad but not good either , better than the Marlborough switch .
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I tried M's the other day, now on Sharp :laugh:
Still looking for Ritmeester Seniors...
 
Ever since our benighted Health Commissar abolished trade in cigarettes -- ostensibly to protect her wards and serfs from the virus -- I've been somewhat nervous that our self-styled overlords would spring another cigarette ban on our hapless populace.

To hedge against such a ghastly prospect I last week ordered twenty 10-pack cartons of my fave recreational anti-covid and contra-puritan prophylactic, Camel Plains. I've just collected them, and, mirabile dictu, the price is unchanged at R38.90 a pack.

This is admittedly more than I go through in a week or even a month. But having a bit of extra stock does provide a small measure of cover just in case the incumbent tyrants have another authoritarian spasm and ban cigarettes again.

Strength, Honour, Liberty and Good Smoking to all members of our gracious cohort.
 
Somewhat coincidentally, I found myself in Rosebank for a brief moment today. I have a rule to never pass through without popping into to original and still independent Joburg Cigar Tobacconist, Wesleys.

Among the many treats on offer, I noticed the Romeo & Juliets lining the inner corner of their walk-in (barely) humidor. The ones of which I was particularly fond and bought two boxes of each month were now R6000!!!!

Damn - when I was burning those like wood, they were under 500 for box. So I just bought a couple of zippos and left.
 
Dear Friends of The Real Smoking Thread

Forgive the brevity of this missive -- I am under unusual time pressure now and over the next few weeks, and I have but a few moments to write this post in the hope of soliciting your advice, guidance and recommendation.

In truth, a calamity is about to befall me and many of our fellow aficionados: Camel Plains are disappearing from the market, and I now have to cast about for a replacement. Hence this appeal.

I am down to my last two packs, and am unable to find a supplier anywhere, and now face the unthinkable and ghastly prospect of having to substitute Camel plains with some other non-filter cigarette.

My request to you is this: Can you summon the comradely compassion to recommend a substitute cigarette for the Camel Non-Filters that I have so richly enjoyed these past years?
 
Arthur said:
Dear Friends of The Real Smoking Thread

Forgive the brevity of this missive -- I am under unusual time pressure now and over the next few weeks, and I have but a few moments to write this post in the hope of soliciting your advice, guidance and recommendation.

In truth, a calamity is about to befall me and many of our fellow aficionados: Camel Plains are disappearing from the market, and I now have to cast about for a replacement. Hence this appeal.

I am down to my last two packs, and am unable to find a supplier anywhere, and now face the unthinkable and ghastly prospect of having to substitute Camel plains with some other non-filter cigarette.

My request to you is this: Can you summon the comradely compassion to recommend a substitute cigarette for the Camel Non-Filters that I have so richly enjoyed these past years?
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Vaping?
 
bwana said:
Is it really that complicated?

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Thank-you, Bwana. At first sight your suggestion seems eminently reasonable.

But it's not really a feasible option for me, sadly

The reason is that the way tobacco is cut, packed and rolled in a filter cigarette is different from that in a non-filter tube.

An experienced smoker will immediately tell the difference in draw, coal burn, smoulder and smoke temperature, and these all affect the taste and overall smoking experience.

The upshot is that the experience of smoking a proper plain cigarette is very different from that of smoking a filter cigarette with the filter cut off.

Thanks for the suggestion, though. Much appreciated.
 
Arthur said:
At first sight your suggestion seems eminently reasonable.
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Fair enough - I only suggested it because it's what my father used to do back in the day when we both smoked Camel - him unfiltered, me filtered. I found many a pristine filter - torn, rather than cut - in the ashtray when he ran out.

I guess it was suitable payback for all the Camels I helped myself to when I started smoking.

Hope you find what you're looking for.
 
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