Do you remember old cigarette brands.?
There was a brand of cigarettes in the late 60`s that gave away green sheild stamps.Can anyone remember what they were called.
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I'm a dedicated smoker who started smoking at 15 years of age, in 1971. Those were the days when one could smoke almost anywhere, and 'passive smoking' had not become the overvamped excuse for the Matron-State to ban the (legal) practice anywhere.
I started on Players Navy Cut tipped - blue and white packet with a sailor on the front. Good tobacco, no coupons. Embassy tipped, Embassy Regal, Nelson, Players No 6, Players No 10 used to give coupons that you saved and redeemed for gifts from a catalogue. We used to joke that if you saved a million coupons the tobacco company would give you a free iron lung.
Certain cigarette brands had a regional following. Tyneside, my home parish, enjoyed woodbines (untipped) and Embassy Regal (tipped). The Midlands seemed to relish Park Drive, whereas London liked Players Weights and Gold Flake. East Anglia liked Churchmans - not surprising as they were made in Ipswich.
A novelty was to smoke foreign cigarettes. Proper American Marlboro, Lark, Camels, Lucky Strike etc offered a different taste to British ciggies. Unfortunately, this died when Marlboro etc started making their cigs in Europe, and changed the recipe so that they were more suited to the European taste.
Changes to European Law in the mid nineteen seventies led to the dominance of the 'king size' cigarette, that appered to me to be made from the sweepings of the fag-factory floor. I changed over to rolling my own - Golden Virginia, Job cigarette papers and Rizla filters. London smoked Old Holborn, Nottingham and Leicester liked Sun Valley, but the North was definitely Golden Virginia territory.
There were some awful cigarettes. Sovereign and Players No 10 smoked hot and bitter. Capstan Full Strength were so strong that one did not just smoke them, one took trips on them. Irish ciggies were very good - Gallahers Blue; Carrolls and Major used good tobacco rather than eurotrash, and the cigs were made in a regular size, rather than king.
I changed from roll-ups to a pipe in 1986 on the advice of my GP. An ex-smoker himself, he maintained that the worst health risks in tobacco came from the chemicals input to ready-made ciggies to preserve the tobacco and eneble it to stay alight. I have happily smoked my pipes ever since.
It should be realised that a lot of people actively enjoy smoking tobacco - they are not just indulging in a habit or satiating nicotine dependency. Many people who I know who stopped smoking years ago still miss the pleasure of good tobacco.
Smoking tobacco, over the last twenty years, has become a take of diminution as places where one can smoke have grown fewer and fewer. The smokers last bastions - the public bar of drink-only pubs and the 'greasy-spoon' caff have been forced to capitulate to the Matron-State by an unmandated Government decree that forces 23% of the adult population to cower in the street in the wettest summer ever, inhaling not only our own tobacco fumes but the petrol exudations from other peoples cars and lorries, whilst the diehard non-smoking protesting minority remain resolutely at home. Most people who do not smoke would have not batted an eyelid if clubs and drink-only pubs had been allowed to segregate and have a bar for smokers and one for the diehard, non-smoking killjoys.
As smokers became fewer, so did the accommodation available for them. When I started smoking, about 50% of the male adult population smoked (Royal College of Physicians figures - Smoking and Health Now 1973), and trains had a policy of 50/50 division of non-smoking and smoking. Quite rightly, as the proportion of smokers declined, so the ratios were altered in favour of the non-smoker. Smokers now have a deep appreciation of the feelings of non-smokers, and will accept bans in most food premises. However, where it is possible to provide segregation, a more enlightened (pun intended) policy of laissez-faire could have avoided the scapegoating and alienation of 23% of the UK populace. There is a case for allowing smoking in the 'greasy-spoon' caff - the majority of users of such eateries are in Social Classes IV and V - classes that also comprise the majority of smokers.
The argument concerning 'passive smoking' by staff in such establishments does not hold water, at least until we see more statistics about the damage to health caused to us all by diesel and petroleum pollutants, environmental toxins within foods and the use of antibiotics in animals intended for consumption. Can I sue the farmer who supplies my butcher if I find that my septic knee cannot be cured by antibiotics because the bacteria have acquired immunity to Amoxycillin because of his use of antibiotics in his cattle to increase yields?
This question has evoked waves of nostalgia within me. My smoking history is one of much pleasure, much experimentation, much discovery, and much conviviality enjoyed in relaxed atmospheres over a ciggie, cigar or pipe. The fact that the pleasures of tobacco must now be restricted cannot be denied, but the virtual outlawing of a legal activity by means of an unmandated ban is surely a sign that the old English quality of fair play is now dead and buried. A sad indictment of our Society.
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