It’s 1985, you’re in 5th class, head down to town for lunch and pick yourself up these bad boys. Life’s good.

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  1. Another school lunchtime favourite was Club Shandy.

    Not Rock Shandy. **Actual** Shandy, made with beer, in a can, at the shop.

    Bloody lovely taste.

  2. I used to knick carrols off my mam. Friend of mine at the time told me to switch to benson because carrols make your heart bleed. Good times.

  3. For 20 years I’ve had no interest in cigarettes but that Carrolls pack has me wanting one.

  4. When I was going to secondary school in the 90s it was a pound a day for the bus so I spent the pound on single cigs and walked to school, 3kms every morning, 3kms in the evening, gave up the cigs by 3rd year and started getting the bus to school instead of buying the cigs, I got fat. I was doing more steps when smoking

  5. Used to steal Rothmans off the mother, Carrolls of the father, players navy cut (the ones without the filters) off the Grandfather. Tis no wonder my chest is in a heap these days

  6. You were flush with your family pack in school! God be with the days you could get a 10 box of Johnny blue, a packet of gum and a box of matches for two pounds.

  7. The bus driver in primary school used to stop the bus on the way home and get us to run in and get him cigarettes sometimes.

    And if we begged him enough he’d often stop for us to get sweets.

  8. My local shops sold Singles and had no issue selling them to the kids, can’t remember what they cost, but you could get a cigarette for less than the price of a bar of chocolate back in those days. Majors were the other popular brand back then among the cool kids.

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