W.D.& H.O.Wills "Wild Woodbine' cigarettes, along with Capstan Full Strength and Players Navy Cut, were arguably the cigarettes that polluted a nation and took the smoker's cough to new heights all the way from the diaphragm. Buy now, cough later.
The top deck of the 'workman's special' bus was for smokers only, or passive smokers with a habit, and the brown roof upstairs hinted at the state of the lungs of those who just had to have a couple of fags on the way to work.
No filter tips here, those were strictly for the ladies, just a straight through 'ciggy' to make sure you inhaled all the tar and nicotine for the maximum hit.
Even passive smoking of this stuff could put you on your back with a dose of the dizzies and if you didn't have any money for fags until payday; just get back on the bus or walk behind somebody having a quick cough and a drag.
They knew how to have a proper cough in the 'good old days'! Every one a gold watch.
Now, if the boss catches me round the back of the bike sheds I'm right in trouble, again.
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