tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6784891745623390957.post2087721424525022098..comments2024-03-22T23:27:47.349+00:00Comments on EAGLETON NOTES: SmokingGraham Edwardshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11196744947133121475noreply@blogger.comBlogger39125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6784891745623390957.post-5623628640608442022018-12-14T20:50:24.064+00:002018-12-14T20:50:24.064+00:00Yes, Mrs s, Dad and his pipe went together.Yes, Mrs s, Dad and his pipe went together.Graham Edwardshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11196744947133121475noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6784891745623390957.post-63645293107674822062018-12-14T20:49:55.786+00:002018-12-14T20:49:55.786+00:00Mrs S. I'm surprised St Bruno pipe tobacco is ...Mrs S. I'm surprised St Bruno pipe tobacco is still available. Oddly I only know of two people on Lewis who still smoke a pipe.Graham Edwardshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11196744947133121475noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6784891745623390957.post-1414133733353325932018-12-14T10:14:28.865+00:002018-12-14T10:14:28.865+00:00PS: That photo of your dad (?) is smashing - my fa...PS: That photo of your dad (?) is smashing - my favorite photos of my dad are with his pipe, too.Marchelinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07697295230446820295noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6784891745623390957.post-13173716802865543142018-12-14T10:13:29.637+00:002018-12-14T10:13:29.637+00:00GB... great post! I just bought some St. Bruno, h...GB... great post! I just bought some St. Bruno, have not tried it out in any of my pipes yet, but it's a plan for this weekend (if I don't come down with the cold that's threatening, that is).Marchelinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07697295230446820295noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6784891745623390957.post-37509380503875454652018-12-14T10:12:37.750+00:002018-12-14T10:12:37.750+00:00HA!!!!! YES!!!! Mok away!!!HA!!!!! YES!!!! Mok away!!!Marchelinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07697295230446820295noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6784891745623390957.post-46629595137342624782018-12-11T14:42:35.773+00:002018-12-11T14:42:35.773+00:00Andrea, I do hope that you are not moking someone!...Andrea, I do hope that you are not moking someone!Graham Edwardshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11196744947133121475noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6784891745623390957.post-28848564761855343482018-12-11T14:39:54.245+00:002018-12-11T14:39:54.245+00:00Lee, stopping buying them is a sure way to stop sm...Lee, stopping buying them is a sure way to stop smoking - or lose a lot of friends by smoking OPs. I remember Marlboro but I'm not sure they were very popular in the UK.Graham Edwardshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11196744947133121475noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6784891745623390957.post-83118278991934709902018-12-11T11:55:23.927+00:002018-12-11T11:55:23.927+00:00surely it's "smocking" :-)surely it's "smocking" :-)Andrea Ingramhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05183929067812339897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6784891745623390957.post-18829250098330397702018-12-10T22:24:28.480+00:002018-12-10T22:24:28.480+00:00Ahhh...the Sobranie Black Russian cigarettes...bac...Ahhh...the Sobranie Black Russian cigarettes...back in the Sixties we'd go wild and buy a pack...and yes, it was for a statement...a bit of a show. They made us feel quite avant-garde! I used to smoke Marlboro (Red) and/or Alpine...and sometimes, Winston.<br /><br />I gave up smoking a number of years ago...I went "cold-turkey"....the only way to beat the habit, in my opinion. I just stopped buying them...that seemed to solve the problem!Leehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15835982875620956300noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6784891745623390957.post-64787697172031932552018-12-10T08:53:57.516+00:002018-12-10T08:53:57.516+00:00Amy, I'm quite surprised by what you say about...Amy, I'm quite surprised by what you say about raising the cost not having worked in New Zealand. For the ten years I was there I knew almost no one who smoked and saw relatively little of it. However that could be because I just wasn't observant. At that price I'm surprised anyone smokes. I've no idea what the price is in the UK but I know a few people who just weren't prepared to pay the price any more. A few years ago branding on cigarette packages was stopped here and I haven't seen a packet since to know what they are like which says something. My New Zealand Family have a dental practice so I can understand why seeing what smoking can do to one's mouth put you off. Graham Edwardshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11196744947133121475noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6784891745623390957.post-86796038466672543242018-12-09T19:25:39.203+00:002018-12-09T19:25:39.203+00:00From the look of it most of the those brands were ...From the look of it most of the those brands were before my time, although Park Drive is still sold and is incredibly popular here in NZ. I started smoking when I was 14, when there was no age limit and a packet of 20 menthols was about $3NZD. I was a social smoker over the years except when my children were growing up and continued it when they got older however once i started working in dentistry and saw what it was doing to peoples teeth it made me quit once and for all. These days cigarettes and tobacco are far too expensive, for a 30g packet it costs about $50NZD and for a 20 pack of cigarettes is about $23. The govt here is trying to get people to quit by raising the cost but it hasn't worked so far.Amyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17076349937962262361noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6784891745623390957.post-46855635349032626462018-12-09T19:00:41.908+00:002018-12-09T19:00:41.908+00:00Gwil, finding a way that suits one in giving up an...Gwil, finding a way that suits one in giving up any habit is the important thing. Mine was an unconsidered spur of the moment decision and I couldn't go back on the decision without letting myself down. I was offered a job with the Imperial Tobacco Company in Liverpool when I was a young man. Fortunately I didn't take it.Graham Edwardshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11196744947133121475noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6784891745623390957.post-20062142874674843322018-12-09T18:50:07.939+00:002018-12-09T18:50:07.939+00:00Hello and thanks for the comment, Rachel. I'd ...Hello and thanks for the comment, Rachel. I'd forgotten how recent the real change in offices was. The change has actually been quite swift although, for me, it seems that it started many decades ago. Graham Edwardshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11196744947133121475noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6784891745623390957.post-65787458914707062452018-12-09T16:52:48.869+00:002018-12-09T16:52:48.869+00:00I gave up smoking gradually so that I finally stop...I gave up smoking gradually so that I finally stopped on my 40th birthday. Did it by reducing the time smoked by 1 hour per week. Week 1 - first cigarette at 8am, week 2 - first cigarette at 9am and so on. When I was a boy I collected empty cigarette packets I found in the street and stuck them in a scrap book. I had most of the ones in the Welsh cigarette museum in my collection. The best place to find thrown away cigarette packets in those days was near Liverpool Docks. Also there one of the biggest tobacco warehouses in the world, if not the biggest at that time. Gwil Whttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03305768121713053837noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6784891745623390957.post-52099996817961628622018-12-09T10:35:12.271+00:002018-12-09T10:35:12.271+00:00I remember the smoke filled tiny offices when I st...I remember the smoke filled tiny offices when I started work in 1969, couldn't see across the room for smoke, before open plan became fashionable. Nobody in my family smoked except father and he died at 55 of lung cancer. He rolled his own with St Julian Empire. Our lives revolved around his ounce of St Julian and the Budget. Nice post and hello.Rachel Phillipshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16053924416805878169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6784891745623390957.post-36405633304284185972018-12-08T22:00:41.741+00:002018-12-08T22:00:41.741+00:00Lynda, I suspect if I were not born into the era w...Lynda, I suspect if I were not born into the era where smoking was the social norm I would never have smoked either. I've certainly never missed it. I doubt if there were any regulators fior advertising in the '50s.Graham Edwardshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11196744947133121475noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6784891745623390957.post-91680724716565823442018-12-08T21:58:55.838+00:002018-12-08T21:58:55.838+00:00You obviously always were a bit of a rebel, France...You obviously always were a bit of a rebel, Frances. I never tried smoking as a youngster. It wouldn't have occurred to me. I think I was probably in my late teens before I even tried a cigarette.Graham Edwardshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11196744947133121475noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6784891745623390957.post-57920130454251154802018-12-08T20:55:43.342+00:002018-12-08T20:55:43.342+00:00Smoking is not something that I have ever had the ...Smoking is not something that I have ever had the desire to indulge. That poster is false advertising for sure.... wouldn't get past regulators nowadays.CountryMumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14761724941259576940noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6784891745623390957.post-72120433920175150632018-12-08T19:22:14.954+00:002018-12-08T19:22:14.954+00:00I haven’t smoked since a friend and I used to shar...I haven’t smoked since a friend and I used to share one from a box of 5 Turf cigarettes (what happened to Turf? Or, come to that, boxes of 5?) on our way home from school at age about ten. I smoked one in front of my mother, and she took no notice at all. I never bothered again. Well done you for giving up when you did. My father did exactly the same thing, having bought a fresh packet. Sadly, his lungs were by then quite damaged.Frances Garroodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10614916006798375706noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6784891745623390957.post-17105679745477527132018-12-08T15:45:20.046+00:002018-12-08T15:45:20.046+00:00Helsie, it's a long time since I was in Paris ...Helsie, it's a long time since I was in Paris but certainly in France smoking still seems to be much more acceptable than in the UK. I can't think of any of my friends here who smoke and, thinking about it, I don't think I knew anyone who smoked in New Zealand either. Graham Edwardshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11196744947133121475noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6784891745623390957.post-3597208471154998012018-12-08T11:17:45.814+00:002018-12-08T11:17:45.814+00:00In Oz over the last 20 to 30 years there has been ...In Oz over the last 20 to 30 years there has been a very successful campaign against smoking and I actually don’t know anyone personally who smokes these days. Good thing too as more than half of my mother’s 13 siblings have died from smoking related disease. We are amazed at the amount of smokers in Europe especially in Paris and never sit outside in cafes and restaurants because of this. Slow learners !Helsiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15136273834165751276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6784891745623390957.post-84848044088430535142018-12-08T09:49:28.781+00:002018-12-08T09:49:28.781+00:00Potty, I'd forgotten about cigarette coupons (...Potty, I'd forgotten about cigarette coupons (although I collected cigarette cards as a child). I looked again at the photo and I see what you mean. It does look as though he's holding a cigarette. It certainly wouldn't have been his but I'm not sure, if it was a cigarette, whose it could have been. I never smoked outdoors (nor, indeed, at home) so it couldn't have been mine. I think Mum had given up by then but she didn't smoke outdoors either. Quite a conundrum. Graham Edwardshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11196744947133121475noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6784891745623390957.post-90305923230461501742018-12-08T09:42:08.039+00:002018-12-08T09:42:08.039+00:00Cro I think Sobranie and cocktail parties were a g...Cro I think Sobranie and cocktail parties were a good match.Graham Edwardshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11196744947133121475noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6784891745623390957.post-58484992642465174732018-12-08T09:37:08.327+00:002018-12-08T09:37:08.327+00:00It was indeed, Red. I can recall that too.It was indeed, Red. I can recall that too.Graham Edwardshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11196744947133121475noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6784891745623390957.post-5858877810813487342018-12-08T09:36:49.153+00:002018-12-08T09:36:49.153+00:00Thank you Maywyn. He was a wonderful father too. I...Thank you Maywyn. He was a wonderful father too. I enjoyed the smell of cigars.Graham Edwardshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11196744947133121475noreply@blogger.com