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L1feOnM4rs · 02-13-2007, 04:55 PM

I've never been much of a smoker. In fact, up until this week I'd smoked a grand total of about 3 cigarettes in my life. I'm 19 and I've never bought a pack, not even for the novelty of it. Well, that is I had never bought a pack up until yesterday. For whatever reason I decided to stop into my friendly college coffee shop and buy a pack of cigarettes. Not just any ordinary cigarettes mind you. I bought a pack of Djarum BLACKs. Outside of the cafe, I excitedly unwrapped the black box - my first pack of cigarettes - like a little kid opening a long awaited gift. I am now fascinated, enamored even, with my new discovery. Each clove is colored solid black, with a thin gold ring around the filter and "Djarum BLACK" printed in little silver letters. The cloves are the same size as a regular cigarette but they feel heavier, more substantial. The filter is saturated with a sweetly spiced (natural!) flavoring. Every time you take a drag, little bits of clove mixed with the tobacco ignite, creating a cool crackling sound. The smoke is thick and smells good, as far as cigarette smoke goes. So yeah, I'm pretty excited to start polluting my poor little lungs. I never liked the idea of smoking too much, in general its always seemed kind of pointless to me. There is a sort of chic to it sometimes, depending on who's smoking them, but I never really had any desire to. But these cloves are just so damn sexy. I know I sound like a pretentious hipster-goth boy, but I just feel like there's a totally different dynamic going on here than with Marlboros or whatever, mostly just because they're colored black and not white, but still. They're like the cigarettes you smoke when you're in a Parisian cafe drinking absinthe and talking about Rimbaud, or engaging in some other cool activity that is enhanced by the presence of cigarettes. It may be superficial and stereotypical to view cigarettes as some kind of cool fashion statement, but hey, I can't help it. If anyone else is equally in love with these marvelous black death sticks, please, share your thoughts!

02-13-2007, 04:55 PM	#1
L1feOnM4rs Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 42	Cloves I've never been much of a smoker. In fact, up until this week I'd smoked a grand total of about 3 cigarettes in my life. I'm 19 and I've never bought a pack, not even for the novelty of it. Well, that is I had never bought a pack up until yesterday. For whatever reason I decided to stop into my friendly college coffee shop and buy a pack of cigarettes. Not just any ordinary cigarettes mind you. I bought a pack of Djarum BLACKs. Outside of the cafe, I excitedly unwrapped the black box - my first pack of cigarettes - like a little kid opening a long awaited gift. I am now fascinated, enamored even, with my new discovery. Each clove is colored solid black, with a thin gold ring around the filter and "Djarum BLACK" printed in little silver letters. The cloves are the same size as a regular cigarette but they feel heavier, more substantial. The filter is saturated with a sweetly spiced (natural!) flavoring. Every time you take a drag, little bits of clove mixed with the tobacco ignite, creating a cool crackling sound. The smoke is thick and smells good, as far as cigarette smoke goes. So yeah, I'm pretty excited to start polluting my poor little lungs. I never liked the idea of smoking too much, in general its always seemed kind of pointless to me. There is a sort of chic to it sometimes, depending on who's smoking them, but I never really had any desire to. But these cloves are just so damn sexy. I know I sound like a pretentious hipster-goth boy, but I just feel like there's a totally different dynamic going on here than with Marlboros or whatever, mostly just because they're colored black and not white, but still. They're like the cigarettes you smoke when you're in a Parisian cafe drinking absinthe and talking about Rimbaud, or engaging in some other cool activity that is enhanced by the presence of cigarettes. It may be superficial and stereotypical to view cigarettes as some kind of cool fashion statement, but hey, I can't help it. If anyone else is equally in love with these marvelous black death sticks, please, share your thoughts!