Top 10 Grossest Cigarette Brands
Some cigarette brands have a reputation for being so foul that even seasoned smokers groan when they hear the name. Think of the ones with a flavor that clings like burnt cardboard, or the budget brands that taste like they were rolled up on a factory floor.
You might have tried a pack once, taken two drags, and sworn never again. Or maybe you watched a friend light one up and immediately questioned their life decisions. These are the smokes people complain about for being too harsh, too weak, too chemical, or just plain awful. They're the brands that somehow keep showing up in gas stations and corner stores, even though almost no one admits to liking them.
Your vote helps call out the worst offenders. Whether it's the bargain brands that promise "smoothness" but taste like an ashtray, or the big-name labels that have lost whatever charm they once had, this list is shaped by your experience.
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Pall Mall
Bought a pack of Pall Mall Blue once (I live in Ontario) because I was looking to save money.
Unfortunately, it ended up costing me more money in the long run. After smoking about two of them, I was quite nauseous, so I threw the pack in the garbage (8 bucks or whatever they cost down the drain).
Went back to the same store about an hour later and returned to my DuMaurier Mellows. They cost more, but you do get what you pay for.
Found a pack of Pall Mall in a bush outside a shopping centre when I was 15. Was overjoyed until I tried one. It was absolutely the foulest, most disgusting thing I'd ever tried to smoke, and I had smoked resin out of a hose pipe.
Needless to say, I chucked them back in the bush.
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Newport
My roommate smokes these in my 3-season porch, and they SMELL AWFUL! It also lingers. Lingers on clothes, in bedrooms, in my porch. It's so gross.
Pay the extra money and buy better quality cigarettes, people! Unless you want to smell like a rotting ashtray.
I'm white, and I smoke the Newport Nonmenthol Golds, and I love them. However, the red box is absolutely disgusting. It leaves the worst aftertaste.
I smoke Newport Menthol 100s, and they are good and not that cheap. The red pack is horrid, though.
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Ruili River
I bought 2000 of the things, and it feels like I have a permanent tongue scrape. Anyway, I'm trying to give up, so these may help. I've smoked a lot of cheap brands in the past with no issues, but these - I have no idea what's in them.
Kindly reduce the amount of nicotine and tar by up to 50%. It will become more popular. Excess nicotine causes heavy coughing, nausea, and acidity in the chest and abdomen. Kindly take immediate action.
The most awful smoke ever. Perfect choice for lowlifes strapped for cash.
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Native
Got a carton of these, and I thought, "Not too bad for the price." Into my second carton, I was coughing, and my lungs filled up with fluid. Whatever they are doing is wrong - just wrong. I went back to my usual brand, and these issues cleared right up. YUCK.
If you want to know what a Native cigarette tastes like, roll up some sawdust and smoke that. It will be just as harsh and awful-tasting as this sorry excuse for a cigarette.
100% worst smell and taste. True test of one's mental health. If you smoke these, you're sick.
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Maverick
These deserve the #2 slot, in my opinion. I'm pretty sure the tobacco used in Mavericks has all been eaten off the floor of a chicken coop by a fat farm dog, then pooped out into a bucket of vomit, before being dried on the floor of a Tijuana strip club that was recently used for a donkey show. It is then swept up with a moldy broom and stored in old septic tanks until it is finally rolled into cigarettes 16 years later.
Tastes okay, but they feel like a burning tongue all the way down to your stomach. The next day is like what would happen after puffing on a burning rubber piping tube, while it's caught chemicals and dirt sifted over grease of all kinds, and it's connected to a running carbon dioxide gas supply.
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Camel
My ex-husband smokes these, and they smell so bad they make me gag. I smoke Virginia Slims, and my house never smelled, even though I smoke. Since he started rooming with me, I can't stand how every room smells like Camels. Yuck.
I'm glad they're also on this list and not only on the best list.
I really don't like the taste of Camel. It's one of the worst. It tastes like rolling a piece of camel dung in a rolling paper and smoking that, so yeah, no.
The biggest problem was when Camel changed their tobacco blend in 2008. Their pre-2008 blend was fantastic, and I long for the day they bring it back, if they ever do.
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Pyramid
Absolutely horrendous. I was with someone smoking them when another guy at the bar came up and asked, "Who hurt you?" If that doesn't scream bad, I don't know what does.
Lit one from a fresh pack, and it tasted odd. Then I noticed a hole in the paper, so I opened the cigarette, dumped out the tobacco, and found 20 little beetle-looking bugs in it. Straight NASTY. The gas station where I just bought them won't take the whole pack back and refund me. I wish I knew who to contact regarding this nasty issue.
Pyramid Red was the first cigarette I ever smoked (although this was not my first time smoking, as I used to smoke Black and Mild). Anyway, they made me want to never smoke cigarettes again until my friend talked me into trying a Marlboro. That's when I realized cigarettes aren't gross - just Pyramid cigarettes.
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Wave
Honestly, what are these even? I can't deal with this insanity.
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Marlboro
The most overrated brand out there. They burn fast, and the taste gets old really quickly. I don't get the big following - people just follow them for their popularity.
I don't understand Marlboro's popularity. The flavor is bad, they burn fast and unevenly, and the smoke is way too harsh.
I don't get why everyone likes these. They burn too fast and taste like ashed-out butts. Flavorless trash.
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Timeless Time
I got a pack that tasted good, so I bought a carton of King Red 100s. They taste nothing like the pack I purchased before.
The first pack had flavor. The carton packs taste like sawdust or hot air. I am going to ask the vendor to test them. Maybe he will trade me, as I think this guy gave me bad smokes or super stale ones. No taste at all, like an electronic cigarette.
Smoked a few Timeless Times, and now I've been sick for a week straight. They are one step away from little cigars.
I wouldn't even call these cigarettes - they are a nicotine alternative. Worst cigarette ever.
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Amber Leaf
Like deeply inhaling a cigar - excessively strong, a budget smoke.
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American Spirit Blue
One of my first smokes. Not bad, just there. The aftertaste, though, is unpleasant.
Just ew. Made me so sick to my stomach and left a sour taste in my mouth. Other versions are okay, but not these.
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Silk Cut
By far the worst, especially the Purples. Nasty and cheap-tasting.
Totally agree.
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Sandia
You pretty much smoke paper. Where I live in Texas, they cost about $2, and they're nasty.
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Edgefield
Too broke to buy the normal Marlboro Reds, so we bought some Edgefield Red 100s. Horrible. Hard to smoke, tastes disgusting, no nicotine high.
Made us want to quit smoking entirely, but addiction is tough. Smoking the last one now. Will never buy these again.
Just got a pack today. They have a metallic taste, like smoking a roll of pennies. I'd rather smoke Pall Mall Orange, second worst cigarettes in the world, these being the worst. Back to the trusty pipe tobacco.
Really pissed off. I buy Menthol 100s, and the filter is white, which is a light blend. I wanted FULL FLAVOR, which is misleading. Can't stand them. Yuck. Dirty air is what it tastes like.
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Surya
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Smoking Joes
I know someone who smokes these, and it smells like a rotten possum in a dirty diaper with burning perm hair. Her cough gurgles like an old Buick with too much oil and a gas tank full of diesel straight out of the Exxon Valdez. I would rather smell a beached humpback that just ate a ton of month-old septic tampons from a third-world country. The exhaled smoke literally looks like a skull and crossbones, and the house has cancer.
Not good. At all. They taste as if you're smoking year-old dried pine needles out of an old muffler. They made me kinda queasy too. Where I live, generally, the tweakers usually like them. I'm sure it's their top-rated cigarette of choice, but I would never call this "quality tobacco." Sorry, but it needs improvement.
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Doral
Just plain awful! I've smoked many brands in my 35 years of smoking, and I have to ask and wonder if the tobacco came from the tobacco-drying warehouse floor! Just can't do it - threw them out!
My mom's been smoking these forever, and honestly, they're horrible in my opinion. I smoked a few, and eventually, you just want to puke.
These are laughable. They deliver if you're a budget smoker. Better than Pall Malls.
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Grand Prix
I can't stand the bad aftertaste, and smoking them makes me feel like the cancer is developing.
One of my first packs of cigarettes, lol, and by golly, they're foul! I agree, I felt the cancer forming rapidly, lol. I am surprised Tourney brand didn't make the list, and what is a "Ruili River"? Come on people, smoke a Marlboro for your own sakes. All smoking may cause cancer, but I'd rather enjoy getting cancer than smoking dirt and getting cancer. #cowboykiller
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Winston
Once bought a pack of these when I was trying to save money. They taste like you're inhaling smoke coming from a lit-up, piss-soaked carpet.
Smells and tastes like burnt licorice. It's so gross.
Oh, nasty. Every time I smell one, I want to faint.
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More
I've been smoking for 5 years, and I've come across many unpleasant cigarettes, but this one wins my vote.
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Bronco
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Monte Carlo
It literally has a sour taste. Very bad cigarette.
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Sky Dancer
I just got a carton of these in menthol. Needless to say, they will help me quit... Awful aftertaste! The smoke was super light.
But breathing it out feels and tastes like disease... I almost prefer "Juditas" to these.
No... Juditas are worse (a Mexican brand... you could find them for 10 to 20 pesos: $.50-$1). But I got a carton of these for $40. Grrr.
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Lucky Strike
Bought a brick in Greece because they were cheap, non-menthol. It's two hours since I smoked one, and I still taste it in my mouth.
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Bridgeport
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JPS
No nice tobacco flavor, just chemicals. Disgusting and smells repulsive, with a gritty aftertaste.
In Australia, JPS is a budget smoke, and you get what you pay for. Definitely never again. I smoke for pleasure, and these make you not want to smoke because they're pretty nasty, like all budget cigarettes.
Stick to quality cigarettes that taste like real tobacco and not burning coal!
Worst cigarette I've ever had. I bought a fresh pouch of JPS Blue and gave it away two days later. It's so inky and disgusting, and they hiss when you take a drag.