Anyone smoke 'Major'?

lee_baby_simms · 01-09-2016 01:05PM

When I smoked I loved being in Spain and picking up as many 50g pouches of DRUM as I could manage. Good times.

grouchyman · 01-09-2016 01:05PM

Smoked them up to 1990 when I gave up the smokes. Absolutely loved them! Best cigarette on the market back then by a country mile.

grouchyman · 01-09-2016 01:07PM

Forgot to say. - Friday Breakfast back then - 20 Majors half-pint of milk and a packet of tayto.

lee_baby_simms · 01-09-2016 01:07PM

grouchyman wrote: »

Smoked them up to 1990 when I gave up the smokes. Absolutely loved them! Best cigarette on the market back then by a country mile.

I imagine they really hit the spot after a rake of pints.

grouchyman · 01-09-2016 01:10PM

lee_baby_simms wrote: »

I imagine they really hit the spot after a rake of pints.

Most definitely

foggy_lad · 01-09-2016 01:13PM

I used to smoke John Players black and can imagine that my lungs looked like the box of fags after a few years, also smoked Camel with/out filters for a few years:eek:

somesoldiers · 01-09-2016 01:23PM

I was at a christening on Sunday and the mother of the baby had accidentally got some fake tan on the little guy's fingers- looked like he had been smoking Major

lee_baby_simms · 01-09-2016 01:57PM

My friends father used to smoke unfiltered players. We used to nick a few off him when we were teenagers. They were foot to the floor smokes, my friend once puked after smoking one. Now that's a real sign that you're getting value for money.

josip · 01-09-2016 02:06PM

My granduncle smoked Woodbines and once by mistake my mother got him Major.
I was about 10 at the time and used to bring him the shopping.
When he saw the pack of Major, he broke off the filter, lit it up and said "They'll do".
He had a small portable television and about once a month he'd tell me the signal on the telly was gone bad again (1980s).
So I'd wash the screen with a cloth to remove the Woodbine residue and he'd say "Good man, you've fixed it again."

suicide_circus · 01-09-2016 02:11PM

Swanner wrote: »

You can get Johnny Blue in Spain, Canaries etc..

I think they import them specifically for the paddy's on holiday..

Still cost 75% less then they do here..

They also have a similar brand that look identical called Urban Blue..

When I smoked i would only smoke one brand. If you brought me home a different brand i'd just flog them and get my own. Others might be different though.

Yes, Urban Blue is a canary island knock-off of John Player Blue.

finno wrote: »

You can get John Player Blue outside of Ireland.

You can get JPS Blue (John Player Special) but I'm almost certain John Player blue is only in the Irish market.

Seth Brundle · 01-09-2016 02:11PM

I smoked Major until about two and a half years ago. They were lovely. Great taste and aroma.
Another good thing about them was that scabs would turn them down.
Gave up smoking and have since had a heart attack.
Never had a problem with my ticker while I smoked. Just saying!

eviltimeban · 01-09-2016 02:14PM

Aye, but what about Sweet Afton?

Seth Brundle · 01-09-2016 02:16PM

eviltimeban wrote: »

Aye, but what about Sweet Afton?

If you're an 80 year old auld wan

shamrock2004 · 01-09-2016 02:18PM

Friend of the family smoked them for donkey's years and all he had to show for that was a few heart attacks.

steamengine · 01-09-2016 02:20PM

Major was/is a very strong cigarette, nearest equivalent would be Benson and Hedges - much preferred Carrolls No 1 myself, much smoother tobacco but still a strong smoke.

Other 50/60's iconic cigarette brands - Woodbines - the working class cigarette, then Players and Sweet Afton for the rest and maybe Churchman's No 1 for those that thought they were a cut above the rest of us. :rolleyes:

All untipped - filters arrived later - can't remember exactly when !

finno · 01-09-2016 02:22PM

suicide_circus wrote: »

Yes, Urban Blue is a canary island knock-off of John Player Blue.

You can get JPS Blue (John Player Special) but I'm almost certain John Player blue is only in the Irish market.

I got John Player Blue last year in benidorm

RobertKK · 01-09-2016 02:23PM

Tell your friend you were faced with a moral dilemma, that you could never forgive yourself when attending his funeral after dying from cancer and/or heart disease knowing you helped to contribute to his demise.
That you care too much for him, and after his death, the guilt would kill you.
Go heavy on the death bit...

MeatTwoVeg · 01-09-2016 02:25PM

CJmasgrande wrote:

20 yeats ago i worked in a shop that was beside a factory. About 20 staff from the factory bought between 20 to 60 Major daily. Every one of those 20 people are dead now and all died relatively young.

Wow!
Terrorist attack on the factory?

josip · 01-09-2016 02:26PM

RobertKK wrote: »

Tell your friend you were faced with a moral dilemma, that you could never forgive yourself when attending his funeral after dying from cancer and/or heart disease knowing you helped to contribute to his demise.
That you care too much for him, and after his death, the guilt would kill you.
Go heavy on the death bit...

If they've been smoking Major for years they might be doing everything to speed up the death bit. Blessed release.

Dyr · 01-09-2016 02:30PM

lee_baby_simms wrote: »

My friends father used to smoke unfiltered players. We used to nick a few off him when we were teenagers. They were foot to the floor smokes, my friend once puked after smoking one. Now that's a real sign that you're getting value for money.

My old man used to smoke Sweet Afton and Players were only the second choice

When I was like 10 years old I'd be sent out for his fags, the lad in the shop would urge me to consider john player blue instead..for my own good like

elperello · 01-09-2016 03:53PM

Capstan Full Strength were the really strong cigarettes.
Gallahers who had a factory in Tallaght brought out a competitor to Major called Virginian. Some said they were better than Major but they never caught on and were withdrawn from the market after a few years.

Musketeer4 · 01-09-2016 03:56PM

Anyone who could handle smoking them probably died after those few years. They shot themselves int he foot with those virginians!

Dyr · 01-09-2016 04:01PM

By coinkidink... yesterday I saw a photo of shop front in the 70s with the virginian logo on it

uch · 01-09-2016 04:09PM

Major were a lovely smoke, I used to smoke them, I never found an alternative if the shop ran out though, as said earlier JPS or Carrolls would be the closest

Filmer Paradise · 01-09-2016 04:12PM

They tried to get the younger crowd with the Mascot brand in about 1990. A sort of Major-Lite sort of effort.

Carrolls Compass were another 'youth oriented' style of fag from the same era.

Both didn't last long however.

Dyr · 01-09-2016 04:16PM

Filmer Paradise wrote: »

They tried to get the younger crowd with the Mascot brand in about 1990. A sort of Major-Lite sort of effort.

Carrolls Compass were another 'youth oriented' style of fag from the same era.

Both didn't last long however.

Hardly surprising with brand names that sound like they came out in the '40s

Reputable Rog · 01-09-2016 04:21PM

Fratton Fred wrote: »

Major?

All the people I know who smoked them are dead. Oddly enough.

Buy him a small radioactive isotope, probably less harmful.

Smoked them for years, 40 a day. Nearly put me in hospital. Although I haven't smoked in a long time I can still tell the sweet smell of a freshly lit 'real one'.
Carroll's tobaccos and Macardales, the only good things to come out of Dundalk.

Reputable Rog · 01-09-2016 04:23PM

uch wrote: »

Major were a lovely smoke, I used to smoke them, I never found an alternative if the shop ran out though, as said earlier JPS or Carrolls would be the closest

Players No6, JPS were terrible. Regal Kings were God alternative in NI.

DrGreenthumb · 01-09-2016 04:33PM

Pick him up some menthol smokes, he won't notice the difference

uch · 01-09-2016 04:40PM

Reputable Rog wrote: »

Players No6, JPS were terrible. Regal Kings were God alternative in NI.

But can you get No.6 anywhere now ?

Anyone smoke 'Major'?

Comments