Experiences in movie theaters?

[iHaunt]

Mike, I wish the company would make Halloween cigarettes for grown adults only! I like to see a pack of cigarettes with an image of Jack O' Lantern on the front, and a ghost on the back of the pack! Maybe a cigarette would be black and orange!

[Murfreesboro]

It's hard for young people to believe, but when I was a child, there were actually candy cigarettes! They were made of chocolate and wrapped in white paper, just like real cigarettes. And they came in a "cigarette"-style box, too. This would have been late 50s/early 60s (I was five years old in 1960). I'm not sure when they stopped making them, but I haven't seen those in decades.

[Spookymufu]

this is the kind of candy cigarets they had when I was a kid (70's), I dont know if they make these any more, but I did get a chocolate cigar for my birthday from Sees a few years ago.

[iHaunt]

Cool pics of candy cigarettes, Spooky!

[Pumpkin_Man]

I remember candy cigarettes. I use to feel so 'grown up' sucking on a candy cigarette while my older siblings smoked the real thing. My older brother smoked Winston brand cigaretts, so I would pretend to smoke Winstom (they would change a letter so the pack wouldn't look to simular to real packs) Unfortunately, that's exactly how I got started on the ream thing.

So I'm glas candy cigarettes are not readily available any more.

Mike

[iHaunt]

When I was kid I used to lick and eat cigarette candies all the time, but when I was 13 me and my cousins went to the small market we bought some pack of cigarettes like, Marlboro, Doral, Camel, Newport etc. They never asked us for I.D. Also, I dressed up as the mainteance man, u know? I brought the first 6-pack beers when I was 14! I wore SEARS teeshirt and pants too!

[Murfreesboro]

I think it's a good idea that they stopped making the candy cigarettes. At least, I think they have. My oldest child is now 22, and I have never seen anything like that since he's been alive.

Unfortunately, my father died of lung cancer, brought on by heavy cigarette smoking, when I was seven. I had a ring-side seat on what cigarettes do to a person at the beginning of my life. Never even had puff # one myself.

[Pumpkin_Man]

Everyone in my family except for my parents smoked cigaretts. My father smoked a pipe and cigars for a while, but he quit around 1968 give or take. He was actualy the very first member of my family to quit smoking. I can even tell you the brands. My oldest brother Bob smoked Winston, Jack (God rest his soul) smoked Camels or Pall Mall, Maureen smoked Viceroy, Jim smoked Winston, Barry smoked Marlburo, I smoked Lucky Strikes and my younger sister smoked Salem.

All of us, except for my two sisters quit smoking. My older sister's heart and lungs are just about totaly shot, and my younter sister can't carry on a conversation without going into a caughing fit. I was exactly the same way when I smoked. When I quit smoking, that caugh cleared up in less then a month. It took me about 2 weeks to get over the physical addiction, but it took me about a year to get over the pshcyological. In fact, I STILL have cigarette smoking dreams from time to time, and on very rare ocassions I get a yen for a cigarette.

I would be lieing if I told you that I have totaly given up tobaco, however. As I stated in an earlier post, I indulge in 3 cigars a year. I smoke one every Christmas Eve, one every St Patricks Day (March 17th, not duringmy St Pats party which is usualy on the Saturday before or after the 17th) and one on my real Birthday, July 24th. I use to inhale the cigarette smoke, but I don't inhale the cigar smoke.

Mike

[iHaunt]

I'm not heavy smoker, I'm just light smoker. I do drink some beers every night about 5 or 6 cans only, but on every weekend I do drink about 6 beers, 2 Blue Long Island Teas and a couple of shots of Suicide.

[Pumpkin_Man]

I defanately WAS a very heavy smoker, and when I talk "heavy," I'm talking 3 to 5 PACKS of unfiltered Lucky Strikes PER DAY. Every other word I spoke was interupted by a caugh, and I would go into these caughing spasms that I couldn't controll. It annoyed everyone around me, I felt miserable all the time, and when I would catch a little cold, one that would be an annoyance to anyone else, would be total agony for me.

So qutting smoking was not for simple causmetic reasons. It was a matter of life and death.

Mike

[iHaunt]

Whoa! Too much pack of cigarettes would kill u, Mike! I suggest u to smoke , like 5 to 10 cigarettes a day is ok. My grandma used to smoke 2½ pack of cigarettes a day.... that's why she got cancer in 1987, until she died in 1992.

By the way, did anyone know Chuck Connors aka The Rifleman back in the 1950s? I love that western TV series. He died at 71 from smoking too!

[Murfreesboro]

I remember Chuck Connors. I had forgotten that he'd died. RIP.

[Pumpkin_Man]

I watched "The Rifleman" on WFLD when I was a kid. This was in the 70s, so it was already in syndicated reruns, but I loved that show none the less. I never met him personaly, though. I know he was in other films and tv shows.

Mike

[iHaunt]

I do like Chuck Connors a lot! He was a great actor! By the way, did anyone know who was his grandson? His name is Matthew, and he was played in the movie "Dead Man's Curve" also "The Thirteen Ghosts". His full name is Matthew Lillard.

[Pumpkin_Man]

According ti Wikipedia, Chuck Connors was also a Major League Baseball player.

Mike