Marlboro Reds will always hold a special place. It was my first smoke, first smoke I got punished for smoking when the parents found out (both smokers themselves) and countless camp fire conversations or posted out in the back of a truck bed somewhere.
But like most things we mature and grow to some level interests and life change ect. I transitioned to working in the industry in my twenties some of the best years of my life and allowed me to travel the world but it exposed me to the world of blending and roll your own. Not to be bougie but I found a happy medium of blending, rolling , price and time when I switched to rolling with a Revolution Cigarette machine, essentially a Keirug of tobacco makers. This with a shredder allowed me to by premade blend, experiment with different combinations from leaf farms and suppliers and more.
I may not smoke what I once did. But I can always dial up a few for special occasions, experimentation or when the cigar doesn’t seem just right.
Big believer in as long as your getting more out of smoking than its getting out of you puff away.