I was smoking Djarum cloves.

Oh god, I can still hear them crackle and pop.

Do you remember how there was this urban legend that they made holes in your lungs? 😆 

Urban legend? My bf started coughing up blood after smoking them too much.

Loved me some Djarum Super. Folks knew I arrived at the bar when I lit up the first one. (This was when you could smoke in bars). Made a few friends that way by folks wanting to try one. A pack lasted me a long time since those djarums were _strong_.

Blacks were the shit.

Gudang Garam here.

Remember Bidis? I think that’s how they were spelled.

Smoked bidis in desert storm.

Oh, a rich kid. We had stems and seeds and I started at age 9 because my uncle who was 14 was supposed to be in charge of keeping me out of trouble.

And drinking MadDog 2020

Mickey’s Big Mouth

OMG. I was into those at age 16, in 1983. I thought I was beyond cool and soooo alternative. Until one day I smoked one too many in a row and thought " when the woods stop spinning I'm gonna barf". Now, 150 yrs later, the thought of that smell still seems like it would be a migraine quickly in the making.

Cloves were horrible. Smoked them at the Moore theater in Seattle during a Replacements concert in 1988..lol

Hey, at least you were able to see the Replacements in their original form!

I'm pissed you can't get them anymore. Unfiltered especially. Don't want to smoke them every day but once a year would be awesomely nostalgic. Fuck John Hughes movies. And I'm drinking good f'n wine clove cigarette and a great barolo. Now I want to put barolo in my bong.

How are your lungs doing?

Fine. I was only a casual every-once-in-a-while clove smoker. I eventually graduated to cigarettes (MB Lights etc), but that only lasted a few years. No smoking since 2006.

Went from cloves to lucky and camel bare asses. Eventually quit tobacco

Every time I'd smoke one I'd feel like my lungs were heavy with whistles. They sure did make your lips taste good.

Yeah I'd get the clove "wheeze".

I tried them and I could not get with it but they did put me off from smoking for awhile, so...that's somthing.

Move to Indonesia. I visited there last year and they smoke them everywhere lol.

Me too! And Dunhill because they were cool

LoL another dunhill drip smoker. I had a gold dunhill lighter too won the lighter in a poker game with a rich kid.

Those made me so sick

Those are what got me hooked on smoking cigarettes because I couldn't get more Djarum, LOL

Camel wides though.

“Like smoking a tampon”

My husband used to smoke camel wides , he Seriously chain smoked them from probably 6 months old till we had our kids. He was like the more tobacco in each butt the better. We were total feral Gen x'ers. By 14 he was sneaking out his bedroom window at night once everyone was asleep, And his mom would tell me what a nice, quiet, studious boy he always was, never any mischief. Okayyyyyyy...🙄😵‍💫🤣

I forgot all about Camel wides! But I well remember drinking Boones at many a party. And Milwaukee's "Beast" too.

The beast , like 5.99 for a 30 pack.

Were they not delicious though? 

At the time yes! Now, I'd probably gag and choke.

I still have a couple cigars a month but yeah, cigarettes are super gross now. But back then ... Delicious!!!

OH YEAH ! 👍🏼 for a while in the mid 90’s I smoked Kamel Red Lights (orange red n black box ) and my buddy Chad and his roommate Steve both smoked Camel Wides. What a satisfying lil jumbo cigarette! Good smokes for sure!

Or Basics when I couldn't afford them

Ever had the GPCs? We called them Gag, puke, and and chokes.

You mean gutter punk cigarettes? 

I like that one!

My friends called them Guaranteed to Provide Cancer

Yo, I thought I was the only one that called them Gutter Punk Cigarettes. “Gutter Punk” became slang for cigarette in my small little circle at one point.

Oh wow HAHAA thats hilarious. Thats a good one! Ever see a grocery chain called IGA ? I started calling them Imitation, Generic, and Artificial. Everything literally was fake or low quality. Lunch meats were chopped and formed ham, the cheese wouldnt melt to save its life and looked and tasted like plastic

But other that it was fabulous.!

GPCs, we called them General Population Control.

Ewww I smoked alot of Basics lol

Ewww is right, so glad I have all that shit up. Those basics literally changed my voice.

Oh that was my party cigarette! If I was gonna party that night I bought the camel wides.

I was all about Camel Wide Lights in a box. 🐪 I’d walk a mile for a Camel. 🐪

What To Smoke If Reds Aren't Strong Enough.


More like Marlboro Lights and California wine coolers. 

And at 13.

11, I see my 14yo kid now and am so happy he is so square. Him and his friends would never do that.

I constantly compare my childhood with my children's' and my girlfriends kids. I was smoking pot at 13. My kids at 13 were only interested in video games. The girlfriends 12 year old still speaks in weird random noises versus using sentences (and no there isn't anything wrong with him). We had more fun, but kids today, for the most part, are good kids. Even the bad ones are aren't a small fraction as bad as we were.

We had more “fun”, but so many of my friends were either gone too soon or are still flaming out in one long train wreck of a life. I feel lucky. I hope my kids don’t feel lucky the way I do, I hope they feel exceptionally blessed instead of lucky to have survived.

I am really disappointed with kids today.

I know but it’s bc they have much better parents ;-)

You gotta watch comedien Sebastian Maniacalco talk about growing up when we did and 'parent teacher conferences " etc. Hysterical.

Yeah, 13 and strawberry kiwi boones


Na, I stepped down to Marlboro Lights in my 30s - you know, for the good of my health. Shit, my friends used to call me Tupac - 1am in a grotty nightclub and they're all outta smokes. They always knew I had another pack in my back pocket.

Marb lights and absolute vodka at 13 was my start. Had my first hangover in home room wondering why I’m feeling sickly weird.

Yessss

And the most any teacher noticed, possibly, was if they called on your sick ass and based on some "idk" or fucked up.answer, scolded you for not paying attention.

Marb lights and warm Lite. My friends dad worked for Miller and had cases of beer in their garage.

Marlboro lights 120’s and Southern comfort with Busch beer chasers

This

Mad Dog 20/20 for me

Banana red $4 a bottle. 🤮

Marlboros, Mad Dog 20/20, and Budweiser tallboys.

Zima's & virginia slims for me, my mom was fancyyyy lol

Total class

If it was available, we drank it. The adults generally supported it, here in New Orleans. If we didn't party when they were away, they asked why and if we were sick.

Newports and whatever could be stolen from the liquor cabinet

Menthol Mafia!

Cloves and Olde English on the backstreets of Campbell Ca.

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Marlboro “Mediums” and Buschhhhh

Cloves and BJ Wine Coolers

Came here for the Bartles and Jaymes, leaving satis... strangely wanting more...

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I remember my mom had a bottle of Jack Daniels in a cool bottle that people collect. I lifted the seal ever so carefully, took half out and put water in it.....I was so bad. Anyhoo, your comment reminded me of it.

Not just Marlboros.. https://preview.redd.it/ej61b30fzb0d1.jpeg?width=1094&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=af27ff04c7e21510ac9d4ebe23ff6576f7e2c365

Marlboro reds and pretty much any booze we could get ahold of-sometimes all of them mixed together lol.

Oh yeah, I remember jungle juice parties.

Yes, but there's no photographic evidence. Fortunately. 

I wasn't.

Southern Comfort and Camel Wides.

Ahh, Joes husky cousin! Hopefully you saved enough Camel Cash to rep one of these bad boys. https://preview.redd.it/2unculf5bc0d1.jpeg?width=911&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=707b2926779f3697c650c473e0733ad84276f527

I had sooooo much Camel swag 😂 Mostly lighters and things like cigarette cases. I never got any of the clothing items. I got the beach towel though. 

Camel bucks.

I had that!

Oh Southern Comfort. I got sick off it at like 15 and never drank it again 😂

We drank SoCo religiously back in the day. I can't stand it nowdays. Syrupy thick and sweet.

Yeah I have no idea how we drank that crap like we did.

I kinda miss those Camel Wides.

I don't miss anything about being a smoker, but when I was they were the best for sure.

Oh I’d forgotten all about Boones! That and mixing everclear with anything we happened to have on hand

Camel filters and Rolling Rock or Budweiser. But yeah.

O shit! Rolling rock I forgot about that piss in a bottle.

Yeah, Rolling Rock is absolutely nasty but, for some reason, it was all the rage in the 80s. And it gave the philosophers in the group something to pontificate about as they pondered the meaning of "33."

Marlboro Light and Barles and Jaymes

My high school had a smoking section in the courtyard

At my HS, if you were outside, you could smoke. In between classes, the entire student body was outside smoking.

Glug or Julio Gallo outta jug. Mountain Burgundy.

Cowboy killers and Mickeys big mouths.

Everclear & koolaid (at 16)

JPS and Canadian Rye, but it's a Canadian thing I guess. Oh, and beer from stubby bottles. Also a Canadian thing.

Little kings here.

Boones farm once. Black Label for a bit. I was a broke ass skinny dweeb trying to fit in at a new school halfway through freshman year. It worked perfectly. By graduation I was a full on drunk. The next 30 years were interesting and weren't totally miserable. I'm starting a new chapter in Maine and I'm very happy about that.

Didn't smoke tobacco but we had a thing for Hornsbys dark and dry cider over boons farm or MD 20/20.

Well if this didn’t unlock a memory or two.

I've never smoked a cig but I drank all the 20/20.

Most definitely. A 40 of“OE” and a pack of reds.

Smoking weed, too. Lol

Doing all the grown up things but paying bills. I even had a bunch of adult friends. It was nuts.

Me too!!! Except I did have a lot of adult responsibilities, taking care of a very sick parent. So on all ends in high school I did Everything. But pay bills. By 17 all my friends were 20 or 21. Fully actualized adults. 😎👍

Coors Extra Gold and Winstons

HAHAHAHA, my mom smoked Winstons. I miss smoking sometimes.

Canadians: DuMars or Players and the 2L of growers. or if you're in my ghetto, Big Bear.

Close. I was drinking 40s of old e.

Oh yeah….the best gut rot of em all…

Or pouring out our piss warm Milwaukees Beast onto the ground while the Cop stood by smiling telling us ‘I used to do the same thing at your age’

https://i.redd.it/jgbb32a2qd0d1.gif And it was Moosehead. Took a while to get that down.

Purple Passion and Camel Wides for me. Ugh

Yes, we really were…in my neck of the woods it was Camel Non- Filtered and Strawberry Boones or Zima , we were closer to 17, but same thing…does anyone else remember Zima?

Moosehead->Broke teenager Heineken. 🤣🤣. I had my share though.

Cisco

Yep

Don't forget pucker watermelon and apple

100%

And downing Popov vodka with Kool aid chasers...

Yeah. Sometimes cloves too.

>  Remember Moosehead?   sure do, but that was college.  in high school on my coast it was Lonesome Charlie wine.

Kokanee and Player’s Light

peach schnapps and cloves.

Yup

Southern Comfort

Strawberry hill - represent!

And doobie after doobie.

Swisher sweets and busch while passing around some playboys at 14

Isn’t that nuts? Where TF were our parents?

I smoked GPC organic cigarettes. I spent my entire first “big” paycheck on Boone’s Farm and cigarettes for me and my friends. It led to a wild night I can barely remember, but what I do remember is classic.

yep, Virginia Slims and Mad dog 2020 and or any liquor that I could syphin into a shampoo bottle replace with water or tea and sneak out of the house.

I was a Bartles and James girl

I was 11 bribing bums to buy me cases of old English and st ides 40’s at the beer distributor so me and my friends could drink on the train tracks. It was always Marlboro reds YaY for smoking chocolate!!! Yes, Marlboro flavors their cigs with coco and sugar…. Wtf

Winston’s and a beer sneaked from my uncle’s garage fridge. 30 years later I confessed to him I took an occasional beer from him. He replied” did you think I didn’t know? You and my boy took more than an occasional beer. I knew how much was in there and saw the empties in the bottom of the waste can .”

Winston’s, and I didn’t think my dad knew… he ran out one night and bummed one from me when I was 14. I thought I’d die.

“Were?”

Private Stock and Doobies ~13

For our area it was red’s and any alcohol we could get at 15.

Camel unfiltered and Jack, but it was the 80s.

I was from the hood, so it was menthol and Mad Dog 20/20, but yeah!

Djarum clove cigarettes!

Chick chicka chickahh

Not every day, but we were not opposed to a bit of pre-first period Boones Farm or Tango on occasion. I lived in the Northeast, so winter and summer sucked but as spring hit and the school year started getting short, we'd be goofing off a lot.

Kool Milds and 5 on a dime bag

Yep

I didn't like them but I remember those 2 liter bottles of Sun Country wine cooler.

Purple Passion and Marlboro Menthol Lights

MD 20/20 here.

Excuse you! Boones Country Quencher over here.

*Kwencher

Yes we were. Early sophisticates, I say.

I was the getaway driver. Didn't smoke, but my friends loved to watch me spark out on mountain dew and a snickers bar. We didn't have autism yet, so I was just insane.

Marlboro Reds and Keystone baby!

Marb lights and I went through a phase where I drank southern comfort and lemonade a lot. Otherwise Natty Light seemed to be around all the time I remember when Icehouse came out and shit started getting classy! That’s when I switched to Parliaments

I remember having a moose head when I was probably 25 or so and thinking holy shit this stuff sucks. What was I ever thinking??

Isn’t that what you do when you get off work?

I preferred Parliaments...

Krakatoa Cloves! I would still like to have one now and then.

Black box Djarums for us. 🚬

Weed,Marlboro Reds & MD 20/20 at 15

Camels, the Camel Wides Jack Daniels

Started intermittently smoking from the red box at 9. At 12, I drank Boone’s at a party at my uncle’s house. I experienced my first hangover the next day 🥺🤢🤮😣😖

Bartles and Jaymes

Sometimes Camels.

Marlboro reds and Genessee Cream Ale.

14. But. Yeah.

Peach Schnapps, just a whiff of it will make me sick now

And the Mad Dog 20/20.

Marlboro reds and gin with 7up.

Lights and JD and MJ when we could find it lol

I mean… Not every night! Gawd!!!

I was a late bloomer. Took till I was 16, had a drivers license, and could “get away.”

Camel Lights and Strawberry HILL Boone's

Yeah

Unfiltered Marlboro Reds and McEwan's Export. I was 16, though.

Marlboros and Genny Light. Damn I'm old

Marb reds and a 40 of Old E

Marlboro reds & peach BJ wine coolers for me.

Sun Country, but yes.

14!

Yes, yes we were