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July 10, 2016 at 1:40 am

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RaD

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@General Lighting 985336 wrote:

Is Copenhagen dip a modern type of the “good ole chawin’ tobacco”? :laugh_at: if its what I think it is, the stuff is now banned in all of Europe other than in Sweden (it was around in Denmark but the EU court made them stop selling it nay a lot of €€€ in fines)

Yeah, it’s tobacco dip. It’s not meant to be chewed but placed in between your lip and gums. I use it because I like to use nicotine, but don’t really like to smoke. Also, it’s good when you’re in school (can’t smoke!).
July 11, 2016 at 9:37 pm

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General Lighting

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@RaD 985345 wrote:

Yeah, it’s tobacco dip. It’s not meant to be chewed but placed in between your lip and gums. I use it because I like to use nicotine, but don’t really like to smoke. Also, it’s good when you’re in school (can’t smoke!).

i can see the logic in this as high schools worldwide have CCTV in many areas and the legal age has gone up to at least 18, but doesn’t it make the teachers suspicious of all the spitting (unless they are all craftily dipping as well? :laugh_at:)

My high school was surrounded by a small forest and the legal age was 16 back then, so in the last two years (age 16-18, called “6th form or Year 12/13” there was little the school authorities could do to stop you, especially as it was permitted to be outside school grounds especially near to exam time as you could say you were going home to study).

Me and my mates still got caught and ratted out by a janitor once (as he knew the grounds better than teachers), although we paid the school authorities back by all sorts of random acts of sabotage, some of which would get a kid arrested today :laugh_at:
November 22, 2016 at 12:40 am

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General Lighting

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my sister (who has recently travelled to USA for work) brought me a carton of Winston Red USA. one of the last RJR cartons (these are now made by ITG USA)

The carton says “additive free” on them – not sure how true that is but in comparison to the Euro-Winstons (made by JTI) but I’m quite impressed – unlike the JTI ones which are bulked out with brown sugar and liquorice (as most so called “American blends” often are) the US ones actually have the real tobacco taste, with the slight sweetness due to sugar coming from the tobacco rather than whatever additives are put in them, and are less harsh on the throat. (British cigs often use cheap tobacco and propylene glycol, which is why they taste bland).

I can’t access the insidewinston.com site to get any further info as it asked me for all sorts including USA address (tried putting in an Alabama address) but then drivers license and social security number (and I’d probably risk trouble from feds for faking info like that even if I could be bothered), but older FDA info claims these have up to 1,2 mg nicotine per cigarette, they certainly seemed like the old style 1980s era cigarettes, good and strong, although more recent reviews hint that ITG have changed the blend again and they aren’t as good (why on earth do USA companies do this, hardly as if tobacco is in short supply there!)
November 22, 2016 at 12:57 am

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tryptameanie

@tryptameanie

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GL smokes as many cheap cigarettes as his sister can carry when she travels abroad :lol_big:
November 22, 2016 at 1:03 am

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tryptameanie

@tryptameanie

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I had no idea they used propylene glycol. That’s a major part of e-liquids, with the rest being vegetable glycerine, flavouring and nicotine. I actually have PG and VG but I u8se them for making homogeneous solutions of etizolam from powder so it can be volumetrically dosed (to 100ug using a 1ml syringe and a 1mg/ml solution but mine is 2mg/ml). I have a milligram scale but even if it was accurate to within 1mg I could expect to be potentially 500 _499+ug either side of that and if dealing with a compound active at sub-miligram levels, it should always be made into a solution to be dosed volumetrically.

Anywhoooooooo, why the fuck do they add propylene glycol to cigarettes?
November 22, 2016 at 3:26 am

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Digital Buddha

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PG is added to keep the tobacco dry.

I almost felt pity and went to Winston’s website but it’s too many hoops to jump through.

RJR is still a big deal even though smoking is on the decline. 2 million sq ft plant. I imagine the old cartons are scarce now.
November 22, 2016 at 5:09 am

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tryptameanie

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@Digital Buddha 987032 wrote:

PG is added to keep the tobacco dry.

I almost felt pity and went to Winston’s website but it’s too many hoops to jump through.

RJR is still a big deal even though smoking is on the decline. 2 million sq ft plant. I imagine the old cartons are scarce now.

To keep it dry is totally counterintuitive to wht I thought. PG is almost oily in rexture so I w9uld have thought it, if anything, was added to keep it moist but as I say, I have no clue here.
November 22, 2016 at 11:38 am

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General Lighting

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@tryptameanie 987030 wrote:

GL smokes as many cheap cigarettes as his sister can carry when she travels abroad :lol_big:

She often smokes more than I do (the nuns in her school were not exactly a good example, other than the Mother Superior) – and has to travel to DE, NL and US regularly for her work anyway…

I do get my sister stuff like German fountain pens in return (we collect these, the Lamy and Kaweco brands are affordable – this is probably another throwback from attending Catholic schools, which discourage the use of ballpoint pens (not because they are sinful, but they are awkward to use the more you write, although modern gel pens are tolerated).
November 22, 2016 at 1:06 pm

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tryptameanie

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:lol_big: pens….
November 22, 2016 at 1:25 pm

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General Lighting

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I (along with many other IT professionals, particularly those in NL, DE, PH and MY) regularly use them (and old style notebooks) – they are quicker and more reliable than trying to store info on computers. (we did also grow up in a generation when handwriting was more commonly used).

Indeed I am going to have to write down manually all the phone numbers from one of my Windows phones and then re-enter them into Outlook/Exchange online so they show on my new Sony (Android) handset, as whatever method was supposed to transfer them went fully tits up so I’ve got everyones email addresses but not the phone numbers.

Also in the back of my mind there is the hope that if my parents ask the nuns and our old parish priest (who are mostly now all in Heaven) how their kids are getting on, the angels will provide them a picture more like this:

(Albert Anker Schreibender Knabe mit Schwesterchen I 1875)

rather than one of us lighting up in the garden :laugh_at:

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November 22, 2016 at 3:58 pm

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tryptameanie

@tryptameanie

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Nice3 pic bud 🙂
November 22, 2016 at 6:45 pm

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Digital Buddha

@digital-buddha

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GL, idk where in the US your sister travels, but the best bet for cartons of the good stuff would be dedicated tobacco stores in the southeastern USA where much of it is grown and rolled.
November 22, 2016 at 7:15 pm

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General Lighting

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she tends to get sent to places like MA, OR etc although her employers have had a decline in US sales so she might be spending more time in EU countries (so at least I can get the European Lucky Strike which is still decent)
November 22, 2016 at 7:26 pm

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Digital Buddha

@digital-buddha

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There is a huge price discrepancy; I’ve seen non brandname cigarettes for ~ $3 a pack in the south, while some states its about ~ $10 a pack with all the taxes. So its really worth mentioning, also the selection is probably better in states with laxer laws.
November 22, 2016 at 7:39 pm

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General Lighting

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I’d noticed this from chatter amongst young Americans online (I didn’t even realise until you pointed it out that the taxes actually varied across states as this is a hard concept for someone from UK / Europe to comprehend, where “sin taxes” are set at national level).

There are discrepancies across the EU, which led to many Brits making overseas journeys simply to buy tobacco and booze; however our Border Force tend to pull people up if they do that too often or take the piss by bringing in entire vehicle loads, whereas if someone is travelling for business and brings back only as much as they can physically carry (there are guidelines which is usually 2 cartons or 400 cigarettes). I’m not sure how many folk who voted for Brexit are actually aware this now limits their allowances considerably!
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