True story: I got booted from watching a sex show (a rather lame one at that) in Amsterdam for the simple act of lighting up a Djarum and puffing away. Apparently, the Dutch hate clove cigarettes. Coffee shop owners won't even let you smoke them in their shops.
@Z und Vielpunkt's chick: They hooked me too. They are clearly geared towards kids... maybe not as much as the Camel Calypso Passion Mint Mojito Candy Bubble Gum Menthols, but close. #cloves
@Hiphopopotamus: you must be the only two in the world. i smoke the occasional flavored cigarette or cloves and have never become hooked on cigs at all, but all my friends who were little badass real smokers in high school (and probably to this day) smoked reds or whatever most disgusting foul things their mothers smoked... My impression has always been that flavors and cloves are for fake smokers only. But maybe i'm just incredibly self-absorbed in my outlook. #cloves
@metalkate: I agree, I usually buy a couple packs of cloves during the summer and I think its quite a stretch to jump from Djarum to Newports. Not a weed to heroin stretch, but still pretty big. #cloves
I smoked them in high school because I liked the smell better (incense-ish!) and thought that if I told guys my lips tasted like cherry, they'd make out with me. This was ineffective. Not only because my breath smelled like cloves, but mostly because I was an unsavory, embarrassing person to be around back then.
That said, my HS best friend called cloves "little goth girls," and I still call them that now, 10 years later. #cloves
@mimigoliath: If you are in high school and want guys to make out with you, don't tell them your lips taste like cherry. Get the word around that you put out. Very effective. #cloves
I am a smoker, and have hilariously evolved in my smokes of choice. It used to be cloves (when I was 18), then several ill-advised packs of Lucky Strike unfiltered, then Marlboro Reds for years and years (because I was TOUGH) and now Parliament Lights, probably because I'm a jerk.
@femme-bot: I found this hilarious brand of cigarettes called 'Cameos' or some such because the packaging is really tacky and therefore no one tries to bum them from me when we're out- my best friend calls them my 'tampon cigarettes'.
Menthol also works in a similar way except, you know, you actually have to smoke them. #cloves
@femme-bot: it would be, except that the government health warning on the package is of some hackneyed old man. really didn't pick their audience well when choosing the image on that one... #cloves
@Vivien Smith-Smythe-Smith: A few years ago I bought a $20 carton of "Kentucky's Best" smokes outside Cincinnati. They were 100s, had a sweet horse head on the cover, and tasted like hot garbage. I just had to start giving packs to people who later told me that they ended up throwing most of them away. #cloves
@Han Valen: well it worked for this:
(and yeah I know it's candy so it's not technically the same, but hell, look at it- the 'spaceman' bit wasn't fooling anyone) #cloves
There's something about cloves that remind me of this rebellious high school senior desperately seeking attention (maybe because she was always smoking them).
But I want to smoke my cigarettes, not fuck them, so let's stick with Camel Lights in packs of 20. #cloves
@OHymenMyHymen: Camel is the most disgusting-smelling cigarette ever.
My old flatmate brought back several of those massive cartons from duty-free earlier this year, and (as she lacks the social graces that usually compel people to smoke outside) completely saturated every cloth surface in the house with that smell. Cloves are *almost* a welcome respite to that stench! #cloves
You know how you eat something that gives you food poisoning and then forever and ever the smell of that food reminds you of puking your brains out? Yeah, that's cloves for me. Thankfully I'm not friends with any hippies. #cloves
If you're inhaling burning debris, it's a cigarette. If you actually enjoy swizzling burning debris around in your mouth, then you probably accidentally inhaled burning debris. #cloves
To be fair, like cigars, many clove-smokers do not inhale the smoke; they merely, like, roll it around on their tongue or something. I don't see the point in that, but this is a true story. #cloves
@mimigoliath: Oh shit, it was! They "broke off jagged little particles, like fiberglass, that actually ripped holes in the tissue of your heart". My friend told me. #cloves
I'm sure whatever the government bans can just be smuggled in with the rest of the regular-flow shower heads, drugs, switchblades and Cuban cigars. Oh why won't someone just think of the children? #cloves
Really? I smoke cloves, and I'd like to meet the kid that can afford to drop $11.00 bucks a pack to feed his habit. This is actually straight up bullshit. Clove smokers make up about 0.5% of U.S. smokers, and frankly when was the last time you saw a sign or billboard advertising them? Meanwhile, you can't walk through a poor urban area without seeing a billboard or advertisement on every corner for Newports or Kools. Really Obama? Menthol isn't flavored? I defy you to not tell me this isn't some tobacco lobbyists wet dream to increase business revenue by expanding their marketing efforts. In the grand scheme of things, I think my Djarum Lights only do damage to ME, while menthol cigs are most likely part of the reason (besides pollution and poor living conditions) asthma is out of control among African American children around the country.
@VirginiaIno: all hail djarum (but bidis were in my college arsenal when i couldn't find them).
this is big tobacco whining--they had their colorful, innocent characters dissed, now washington wants to take away the smokable equivalent of mike's hard lemonade. sorry, but cloves don't fit the category.
not to worry--hundreds of bodegas and the whole of jackson heights will make sure we still get our jovial clovial fix.
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Come on people. It's not like it's pot. #cloves
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That said, my HS best friend called cloves "little goth girls," and I still call them that now, 10 years later. #cloves
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Cigarettes are great. #cloves
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Menthol also works in a similar way except, you know, you actually have to smoke them. #cloves
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@Han Valen: well it worked for this:
(and yeah I know it's candy so it's not technically the same, but hell, look at it- the 'spaceman' bit wasn't fooling anyone) #cloves
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But I want to smoke my cigarettes, not fuck them, so let's stick with Camel Lights in packs of 20. #cloves
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But we won't let it get us down...
Light up another cinnamon stick and let the good times roll! #cloves
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this is big tobacco whining--they had their colorful, innocent characters dissed, now washington wants to take away the smokable equivalent of mike's hard lemonade. sorry, but cloves don't fit the category.
not to worry--hundreds of bodegas and the whole of jackson heights will make sure we still get our jovial clovial fix.