Man Does This Feel Weird.............. I mean whoever heard of a man writing a review about a cigarette, especially when he knows that very habit will be the end of him someday. I definitely do share the sentiments of the guy who posted a review before me; however I still wish to try and ink something and invite the ire of people who do not smoke and strictly object to the habit.... My sincere apologies folks, but like the habit it is a situation of not being able to resist......
Why This Brand : When it comes to cigarettes, very few people in fact very few smokers pay attention to what they smoke. The core of the smoke lie in the leaf and India has a very diverse leaf spectrum from which manufactures choose from and fortunately ITC does a decent job in selecting the leaves. Tobacco is always a mixture of cultured and uncultured leaves. Cultured are those leaves that are grown in a regulated environment, like humidity level, earth water level and so on and uncultured is that which just grows free on the face of earth...... Now comes the best part, the Classic series has four selections Regular, Milds, Ultra Milds, Menthol and difference in these is the ratio of uncultured versus cultured and Classic Regular happens to have a blend favored by lots of people...... There is also this thing attached to locality, for example most North Indians would prefer the Wills brand more commonly known as ’’Red Wills’’ or ’’Navy Cut’’.... akha Hyderabadi’s prefer Gold Flake Kings.... Me I prefer ....... well I am a patriot, I smoke any available brand (In college years, when money fell short in hostels, I even tried beedis to my current day embarrassment).... So in my list of Favorite brands this is one that comes in the top three
Why Not This Brand: The pricing is something a few people are not satisfied with, because this brand comes slightly higher than the Navy Cut or the Gold Flake Kings..... Most sellers have the 20s pack and the 10’s pack is something that we are seeing now and not in all places...... (In a few places the seller will not give you three or four cigarettes, you have to buy the whole pack, because he will not have sales for singles but a pack is something he manages to sell once a day as a pack)...... Another thing against is that this blend of tobacco would have done better in terms of both flavor and strength if it had a charcoal filter, however it ships with a regular felt filter that is quite long so you don’t but your fingers at the stub...........
Well to be entirely honest, once a man prefers a brand, he stays with it for most of his life till he quits and in most cases changes in prices are something he rarely bothers about...... which reminds me the new budget has just made a pack of this stuff costlier by Rs. 2.50 .... So the new price will be Rs. 67.50 at my place ........