Slang words names and phrases that were used by smokers

[PopT 10]

Roll-ups- homemade cigarettes

 

Does anyone know them by another name?

 

PopT

[sycamore66j 10]

Many of the old snuff takers or eveen landlords in the pubs where there was free snuff available at the bar, would ask you if you wanted a 'bit up'.

 

Nowadays you would get a rollicking if you asked a question like that.

 

The old snuffers were asking if you wanted a pinch of stuff to put up your nose.

 

Happy Days!

 

did anyone ever dip the end of a cig into snuff and then lit the said end, it cleared your tubes out first thing in the morning!!

[PopT 10]

I remember the free snuff in the Royal Hotel in Owlerton.

 

It was a pair of Ram's horns set on a base with silver caps on the horns set on the bar.

 

They must have held several ounces of snuff.

 

The landlord frequently offered a pinch (bit up) to his customers

 

Happy Days! PopT

[piscosour 10]

Roll-ups- homemade cigarettes

 

Does anyone know them by another name?

 

PopT

 

"Tailor made" for factory rolled cigarettes, as opposed to hand rolled

[baby tiger67 10]

we called cigarettes boonies, wow, many years ago, just call them fags now.

[flyer 10]

I seem to remember a picture of Popeye on the front.

 

What about the chocolate smoking sets at christmas, complete with pipe , cigar , cigs etc.

 

working for a candy maker(o-pee-chee)as machine builder i was helping to finish of a project that had started 10yrs before worked off and on for 5 yrs untill a perfect gum cigar ,pity that it was not consider right to teach kids to smoke it was all dumped,ouch it hurt a little but on with the next project lesson well learned:(