Zig's Theory on Smoking

Censorship. Such a lot of treetreetree.

And why 'treetreetree'? Why not 'bleepbleepbleep' or 'dotdotdot'?

 

There's supposed to be nobody more anti-smoking than an ex-smoker, and when we were told over 20 years ago that our mortgage would cost us more, we both gave it up there and then.

If you want to give up, I'm sure that just one of these (I have an original, full packet) would do a better job than fake ciggies (based upon what a rollup tastes like after 24 hrs x thousands):



And with the money you save from not buying ciggies you can purchase collectable Bakerlite items such as:

 

Tried all of them when I was younger, Woodbines/Park Drive/Pasha/Du Maurier, etc. and even had a go at the oval shaped Passing Cloud which were always sold in a 'pink' packet! Stopped some years ago and seeing the present price for a packet of 20, am well pleased.

 

We get treetreetree because we're a gardening site, we'd get bleepbleepbleep if we were a robotics forum & dotdotdot if we were dashdashdash morse code enthusiasts.

 

My Grandad Chewed a thick black Tobacco ,don't know the brand name,but his teeth where black. He chewed this when firing the old steam engines, pity the passing passenger trains when he Spat from the engine :gaagh:.

 

Hi Gemini, was there a cigarette which was triangular shape? i have in my mind it was French..

 

I'mthinking of Toblerone with triangular bees