Are 'Camel Turkish Golds' any good?

fumbduck

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Please no smoker hate in this thread.

It's an honest question, they are about the same price as camel filters... but whats the difference?
 

Joemonkey

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it's just a different blend of tobacco. I like them ok, but prefer the Turkish Jade

they are a little stronger than regular camel filters. the Turkish Royal are a little smoother
 

WinkOsmosis

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I don't hate you. I just don't understand why you started smoking when you knew you would become addicted and spend ungodly amounts of money on the addiction.
 

KGB1

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Originally posted by: WinkOsmosis
I don't hate you. I just don't understand why you started smoking when you knew you would become addicted and spend ungodly amounts of money on the addiction.

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Great way of interpreting it.. anyway... why don't you just buy a pack and try 'em? Unless you live in NY and pay $7.50 for a pack of cigs, then I can understand why you're so hesitant before you jump in and buy a pack.

Btw, is Camel really "Turkish" tobacco? :confused:
 

Sephy

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Originally posted by: Joemonkey
it's just a different blend of tobacco. I like them ok, but prefer the Turkish Jade

they are a little stronger than regular camel filters. the Turkish Royal are a little smoother



Uh? Turkish Gold are a lot less strong then Filters. They're very smooth. Royals are a little harsher then Golds.
 

rgwalt

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I prefer the golds over all of Camel's offerings. I think they taste much better than lights/filters. If you are a camel smoker, I think you'll enjoy Turkish Golds. Try the Royals if you are curious, but I think they are heavier/richer than the Golds. Something different...

R
 

tweakmm

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Originally posted by: WinkOsmosis
I don't hate you. I just don't understand why you started smoking when you knew you would become addicted and spend ungodly amounts of money on the addiction.
To be fair, it's possible to smoke cigarettes and not form an addiction or spend ungodly amounds of money on them. Over the summer I started smoking when I drink and I bum a cigarette or 2 at parties. I have yet to feel any addictive properties and have yet to spend any money on cancer sticks.
 

DurocShark

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Originally posted by: Sephy
Originally posted by: Joemonkey
it's just a different blend of tobacco. I like them ok, but prefer the Turkish Jade

they are a little stronger than regular camel filters. the Turkish Royal are a little smoother



Uh? Turkish Gold are a lot less strong then Filters. They're very smooth. Royals are a little harsher then Golds.

You've got 'em mixed up. The Royals are smoother, the Golds are a bit harsher. But I can smoke them both interchangeably. Haven't tried the Jades yet. . . I was under the impression they were menthol? If not, maybe time to give them a shot.

I was a Marlboro reds smoker until Camel sent me a free tin of Royals to try. I was converted! Then they started sending me $5 off a carton coupons, and 7-11 started selling Camels for a buck cheaper than Marlboros and the rest is history! ;)

 

KGB1

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Originally posted by: DurocShark
Originally posted by: Sephy
Originally posted by: Joemonkey
it's just a different blend of tobacco. I like them ok, but prefer the Turkish Jade

they are a little stronger than regular camel filters. the Turkish Royal are a little smoother



Uh? Turkish Gold are a lot less strong then Filters. They're very smooth. Royals are a little harsher then Golds.

You've got 'em mixed up. The Royals are smoother, the Golds are a bit harsher. But I can smoke them both interchangeably. Haven't tried the Jades yet. . . I was under the impression they were menthol? If not, maybe time to give them a shot.

I was a Marlboro reds smoker until Camel sent me a free tin of Royals to try. I was converted! Then they started sending me $5 off a carton coupons, and 7-11 started selling Camels for a buck cheaper than Marlboros and the rest is history! ;)


:confused: So it wasn't the nicotine that got YOU addicted. It was the sweet deals and coupons: Camel & 7-11 were offering that made to hang on to your smokes so dearly. Sounds like RossMan would really be proud of you ;) :p

/bows to DurocShark
 

zener

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It is not so bad. But I still think that Marlboro light or Kentucky's Best (best bang for the buck) is better. Also I quit smoking for 4 months already so my taste could be skewed.
 

Thoreau

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Originally posted by: Joemonkey
it's just a different blend of tobacco. I like them ok, but prefer the Turkish Jade

they are a little stronger than regular camel filters. the Turkish Royal are a little smoother

The Jades are definitely better, although I kinda like the Turkish Gold. Really smooth taste, but seems wierd after going with Wides for so long. Speaking of Camel's, anyone find a place carrying the new Midnight Madness ones? They're supposed to be in a tin as well and some kinda limited supply, but I can't find anyone who sells them yet.
 

Thoreau

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Originally posted by: Geekbabe
I like em, particularly since you can often find buy 1 get 1 free deals.

OMG! You're female, a geek, AND a smoker? Wanna get married? :heart:
 

tcsenter

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"MORAL STATISTICIAN." -- I don't want any of your statistics. I took your whole batch and lit my pipe with it. I hate your kind of people. You are always ciphering out how much a man's health is injured, and how much his intellect is impaired, and how many pitiful dollars and cents he wastes in the course of ninety-two years' indulgence in the fatal practice of smoking; and in the equally fatal practice of drinking coffee; and in playing billiards occasionally; and in taking a glass of wine at dinner, etc., etc., etc. And you are always figuring out how many women have been burned to death because of the dangerous fashion of wearing expansive hoops, etc., etc., etc. You never see more than one side of the question. You are blind to the fact that most old men in America smoke and drink coffee, although, according to your theory, they ought to have died young; and that hearty old Englishmen drink wine and survive it, and portly old Dutchmen both drink and smoke freely, and yet grow older and fatter all the time. And you never try to find out how much solid comfort, relaxation, and enjoyment a man derives from smoking in the course of a lifetime, (which is worth ten times the money he would save by letting it alone,) nor the appalling aggregate of happiness lost in a lifetime by your kind of people from not smoking. Of course you can save money by denying yourself all these little vicious enjoyments for fifty years; but then what can you do with it? What use can you put it to? Money can't save your infinitesimal soul. All the use that money can be put to is to purchase comfort and enjoyment in this life; therefore, as you are an enemy to comfort and enjoyment, where is the use in accumulating cash? It won't do for you to say that you can use it to better purpose in furnishing a good table, and in charities, and in supporting tract societies, because you know yourself that you people who have no petty vices are never known to give away a cent, and that you stint yourselves so in the matter of food that you are always feeble and hungry. And you never dare to laugh in the daytime for fear some poor wretch, seeing you in a good humor, will try to borrow a dollar of you; and in church you are always down on your knees, with your eyes buried in the cushion, when the contribution-box comes around; and you never give the revenue officers a true statement of your income. Now you know all these things yourself, don't you? Very well, then, what is the use of your stringing out your miserable lives to a lean and withered old age? What is the use of your saving money that is so utterly worthless to you? In a word, why don't you go off somewhere and die, and not be always trying to seduce people into becoming as "ornery" and unlovable as you are yourselves, by your ceaseless and villainous "moral statistics"? Now, I don't approve of dissipation, and I don't indulge in it, either; but I haven't a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming petty vices whatever, and so I don't want to hear from you any more. I think you are the very same man who read me a long lecture, last week, about the degrading vice of smoking cigars, and then came back, in my absence, with your vile, reprehensible fire-proof gloves on, and carried off my beautiful parlor-stove.

By Mark Twain

From The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County and Other Sketches (New York: C. H. Webb, 1867).
 

Turkish

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Originally posted by: WinkOsmosis
I don't hate you. I just don't understand why you started smoking when you knew you would become addicted and spend ungodly amounts of money on the addiction.

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