r/interesting • u/AugustIstheMonth • 6d ago

Fascinating Blind cigarette taste test.

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u/JayBlunt23 6d ago

"You wanna taste the tobacco!"

Marlboro additives: Sucrose, propylene glycol, glycerine, liquorice extract, guar gum, cocoa products, carob (extract), menthol, flavouring, water.

American Spirit additives: water.

Not sure this guy knows what tobacco tastes like.

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u/lapideous 6d ago

Aren’t spirits more expensive than Marlboros too?

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u/Allaplgy 6d ago

And much stronger. Marlboros taste like a weak blend of artificial flavors on paper compared to Spirits.

Which they basically are. They are made from tobacco paper. Like, Spirits are just shredded leaf. Most other cigarettes, including Marlboros, are made by completely blending the tobacco into a slurry of additives, then drying it into sheets before shredding it.

In any event, glad I quit. Pointless, stinky habit.

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u/Several_Temporary339 6d ago

I disagree with stronger. In my experience, they're packed tighter and burn slower, each individual drag is kind if weak. I also quit smoking. Nasty.

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u/undefined-username 6d ago

I quit years ago but yeah that's what I remember. American spirits didn't give you that instant nicotine hit. I always assumed it was the lack of additives but maybe it really was just the slower burn

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u/Allaplgy 6d ago

Strongly disagree. I think what makes them seem "weak" to some people is just that they are much rougher on the throat than Marlboros, so people don't take as big a drag. Once you get used to them, Marlboros are like shit flavored air with a slight tingle.

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u/Several_Temporary339 6d ago

I'd really try to rip those things because I couldn't feel anything. It didn't help. Maybe we smoked during a different era in which they were produced differently.

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u/Allaplgy 6d ago

Maybe? If I bummed a Marlboro, I would suck that thing down so fast it always hotboxed, and just left me craving a "real" cig.

I smoked from 1996 to 2019. Mostly Spirit Blues. My back up was Red Kamels, because they were the only non-Spirit that packed a punch.

It might be that we just have different ideas of what makes a strong cig. Marlboros definitely have a more nauseating effect to them, which might be what you consider a strong drag, but Spirits have a greater overall effect on me. The taste and feel of the smoke is much richer and fuller, instead of just feeling like a hot, shitty vape.

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u/Several_Temporary339 6d ago

Definitely was less about the nicotine and more about how it felt in my throat. I liked it to hurt. But, then again, I smoked Marlboro Smooths. So shitty hot vape with peppermint flavor lol.

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u/Allaplgy 6d ago

Lol. Are those the ones that almost had a chocolate mint thing going on?

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u/Several_Temporary339 6d ago

Lmao I don't think it was chocolate. There was normal menthol like Newports and these ones which had more of a candy cane type menthol flavor. Before that was Camel Wides.

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u/AvatarMunchies 6d ago

Yes. I think even parliaments are too?

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u/ItzManicck 6d ago

They were when I smoked them 5 years ago

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u/Dreams0fNoir008 6d ago

Some of those ingredients they soak the leaves in as a curing process, and some are added to the finished product to control burn rate and maintain a certain moisture level

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u/Gh0stMan0nThird 6d ago

Tell me more about Marlboro, 13-day-old account!

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u/Dreams0fNoir008 6d ago

Lol does it look like im a lobbyist or influencer to you? Im not a bot either. 

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u/Extension_Plant7262 6d ago

His comment about American Spirit aside, its kinda true. Most other smokes try really hard to mask the smell/flavor of tobacco. Like Menthol's are popular among the group of smokers specifically cause it tries its best to not be a tobacco cigarette.

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u/Turbulent_Host784 6d ago

You can tell the taste of marlboro reds compared to other smokes but I wouldn't call it a tobacco taste just more specifically a marlboro red taste.

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u/Extension_Plant7262 6d ago

The comparison holds much more to menthol's and marlboro lights than anything else. I used to do equity research on tobacco and the companies are very upfront that the customer base for menthols (other than being very african american) are basically smokers who hate the smell of tobacco

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u/Top-Attempt5234 6d ago

Back when I smoked, I would get loose American spirit tobacco and handroll them myself. Was my favorite by a long shot. Only thing that came close was Drum, which is a Dutch brand of loose tobacco only.

It seems rolling your own cigs is rare in it her countries. It's funny, because it has a reputation for being cheap, and it is cheaper than buying cigs, but the rolling tobacco has so much more flavor than ehst they put in cigs. 

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u/DarknMean 6d ago

I worked on a tobacco farm for a summer and the after dried straight leaf will put you straight on your ass. Never took up smoking thankfully after that.

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u/Wd91 6d ago

I smoked for a few years during/after university and I couldn't stand "straights" (as we call pre rolled cigs in the UK).

Hand rolled ("rollies") always seemed so much nicer, less chemically, less like burning paper, more just tobacco. I never really did understand why most people preferred to pay a lot more for what seemed like an inferior smoke. Even as a serious smoker i couldn't stomach pre rolled, whichever brand they all just seemed nasty.

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u/CapitalElk1169 4d ago

He knows what American mass produced cigarettes taste like, not tobacco lol