My dad would give me 50¢ and send me to the drug store. I came home with his Marlboro reds...
As an
amateur teen smoker, I was more "exploring" different brands like Dunhill, Rothmans and others. Later at high school we were smoking Lucky Strike, Winston 100s, French well known Gauloises and Gitanes both with and without filter and some others
In that time Marlboro was about 25 deutche mark (dont know how much it was in USD) at duty free.
My final choice was Marlboro red but switched it to Light after many years bcs I was smoking a pack/day.
I quit smoking 10 years ago when reached a carton/week. Had a difficult to bread sometimes when lying in bed and it was a sad warning to me. Sad because I really like a smell of cigarette smoke.
Funny thing, I was always smoking a Marlboro which was made in some of European countries but never could find original from US. I quit in april 2014. and 2 months later I went on vacation, first time to US and original Marlboro was everywhere
Even some kinds that we dont have in EU. With the other words, I was never smoking original American Marlboro