Thydney

Might be up your end but down here loads do it. The dirty bastards at the cattle auctions gob everywhere. Makes everyone sound like the cop JW Pepper from 'live and let die'

TimFountain

Only B&H? IMHO they all taste like you're licking an ashtray.

lisag8070

what the UK cigs or the US cigs...?

or both..

Bob

only now and again, especially when pished, it's quite pleasant....far to expensive normally though

mum2bowie

Thanks for all the advice - nice yo know I am not the only person left smoking in the USA. Sometimes it feels like it!

Titchski

I stopped smoking when I moved here. Wasn't a heavy smoker though, 10 a day at best (if I wasn't out boozing)

scatty

snap, me too,

I live in Florida and our Publix sell them. I think they are made and imported from Canada. If you have a Publix in your area they can special order them for you

Xebedee

Benny Hedghogs!
Did find some B&H here, they were in a sort of "metallic blue & gold" box. Only in 100's as well. Just didn't taste quite right tho, so I gave up and went onto Malboro reds (lung-burners we called them back home), thence to Lucky Strike (unfiltered - it was my macho phase), onwards to anything generic (broke phase) thence to menthol ultra lights (back to Marboro's again).

After 25 years since those "bike-shed sly-ones", now smoke free. Love the smell.

PS: No-one mentioned rolling your own.

mum2bowie

Hi Scatty,
Thanks for the advice but we don't have a publix here in NJ! I have a little independent convenience store that gets them in for me but he charges a lot and doesn't always have them. So far this hasn't been a problem because I got here 12/12/07 so I had a duty free "stock". I guess I asked the question for the *fateful* day when i go there and my stock has run dry!

Bob

decent backy to roll ain't cheap, the skins are also really expensive that it's not any cheaper to roll than to buy, that and it's next to impossible to find backy and/or skins in this state

Xebedee

First time I tried to buy rolling tobacco, went into a 7-11 and asked for Golden Virginia - smartass behind the counter tells me just about every tobacco here is called something-Virginia.

Old Holborn was a bit sweeter, but GV tasted better.
Calling them "skins" makes me think of a little "trick" using three of them.

*Ahem*

Bob

cutters choice back in blighty, then GV....american spirit too, but that's impossible to find around here, just drum or some other rubbish that should be used to fill the pot holes in the roads.

And yeah, skins, until a couple years ago, you couldn't buy a lighter in the same store that sold skins, because only druggies did rollies and getting matches or a lighter in another store really stopped people from smoking

Triumphrob

Or worse, like trying to smoke a manpon!

Leyther

I've rolled my own smokes for several years now, it just worked out cheaper than buying normal cigs and even more so with frequent trips to Spain .

However during my short time here I have noticed that not many places sell skins and those that do charge around $1.30 for the ZigZag 1 1/4 which only as 32 leaves as opposed to the 25p for a packet of Rizzlas or Swan papers which came with 50 leaves. Also even fewer places sell filter tips and they are costly also, not too mention they are like bloody huge gobstoppers instead of the small ones in the back in blighty.

As for tobacco, I bought a packet just the other day called BaliShag (Danish) which I haven't tried yet but it appears to be similar to Drum, Turner and the rest of the of the usual Halfzware Shags available. The cost I thought was rather reasonable - a little over $5 for 40g and it comes with 50 skins!