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WHAT: Cigarette reviews.
HOW MANY SUBSCRIBERS AT TIME OF WRITING: 1,517.
WHY SHOULD I CARE: Remember a couple of weeks ago we took a look at Cigar Obsession? And we noted how much we'd like to be him, gazing up at the stars with a thick Cuban in hand, blowing delicious smoke into the warm night air as the Tiki flame burns and a light breeze laps against your ears? Well, I think I've found basically the exact polar opposite of that vibe. It still involves a man who is an enthusiast about smoking, but instead of a balmy garden it's in a shed, and instead of a husky expensive cigars he's smoking fags and roll-ups.JR is a Scottish man who really loves cigarettes. He uses Rizla green rolling papers, but isn't the most adept roller. He's more of a cig man, you see. He's only recently started doing the reviews inside his shed – the first iterations of his cig reviews had him just outside of it, and you could see the dampness of the wood from the rain that seems to never end. I haven't watched every single one, but the sun isn't shining in any of the videos I've seen. Inside the shed sits an old HP printer box, the top of a pile of other assorted detritus that remains off camera. The shed doesn't look particularly big, and while he's not ducking to save his head from a bumping, he looks like he's only just about comfortable in there.Not to mention the subject of these reviews: cigarettes. Maybe I'm smoking the wrong fucking cigs, but they're not the sort of thing I can imagine gleaning a lot of pleasure from reviewing. They don't have the same kind of rich-boy leisure feel that a cigar does. Nor do they have the variation in taste and flavour that your vaping nerds enjoy. They don't do pineapple-flavoured Embassy Red. There's no cookies 'n cream Superkings. So why even bother?
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