Menthol Cigarettes

[geraldc]

Just what exactly is wrong with blokes smoking menthol cigarettes?

This is probably the wrong place to ask, as most cyclists are a healthy lot, but male menthol smokers seemed to get looked down on by proper smokers, why?

[JT]

It's just one of those macho things*. Menthol are seen as girls' tabs as you tend to get less "flavour" and they're generally not as strong as normal tabs.

*In Newcastle you'll even get called a poof for striking a match away from yourself.

[Sergeant Pluck]

It's just a sign of very bad taste.

[Valiant]

I used to smoke menthols. Ain't nothing wrong with it.

[FatBloke]

"Consulate: Cool as a mountain stream!" 

[rogerzilla]

I thought they were to keep you smoking if you had a cold 

[Gandalf]

Can you still get 'Everest' these days?  When I used to be in the off licence game I used to sell a good three packets a year.

[Regulator]

Ahem...  I happen to smoke menthol cigarettes... Consulate so it happens.

I AM as cool as a mountain stream!

[FatBloke]

Can you still get 'Everest' these days?  When I used to be in the off licence game I used to sell a good three packets a year.

I used to smoke those when I was about 11.   

[rogerzilla]

The only fags I've ever bought were JPS, and that's because my first Christmas job (at 16) involved being a general dogsbody for the Basingstoke branch of Currys; doing fag runs for the staff was part of the brief, as was moving stuff around the stockroom and putting up shelves.

[Mr Larrington]

Menthol cigarettes vie with genocide, famine and the Morris Marina for the title of Worst Thing in the History of All Things Ever.  A cheap way of getting the menthol fag effect is to smoke a Silk Cut while sucking a Polo.

[Valiant]

Silk Cuts aren't cheap though

[Greenbank]

The only use for Menthol tabs is as an emergency pack at home. I was much less likely to be lazy and take the whole pack out with me when I'd run out of real tabs.

[pcolbeck]

Menthol cigarettes are OK. Now Sobranie Cocktails are a proper girls cigarette. Pastel colours and gold filters !

[Jules]

Menthol cigarettes are OK. Now Sobranie Cocktails are a proper girls cigarette. Pastel colours and gold filters !

Yes, Real men smoked Sobranie Black Russians

[bobb]

Menthol snouts are revolting. They also have much of the healthy stuff like tar and nicotine removed and replaced by a bunch of chemicals to give them that horrible minty flavour.

Give me Capstan Full Strength any day 

[Charlotte]

I have in my time, smoked a good few menthol fags.

My ciggie of choice always used to be a liquorice roll-up.

Bloody daft habit regardless of what you smoke.

[bobb]

Bloody daft habit regardless of what you smoke.

Shit! I thought they had vitamin C in them and stuff?!!

[Valiant]

liquorice roll-up.

  Only as a last resort, after having tried smoking just a paper.