Roger Waters and smoking

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BigManBigEgo
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Roger Waters and smoking

Post by BigManBigEgo »

Does anyone know what brand of cigarettes did Roger smoke?
Im just wondering
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Re: Roger Waters and smoking

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It doesn't look like a branded product to me -

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Re: Roger Waters and smoking

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I cried when Paul McCartney said he'd stopped smoking pot.
Does Roger still smoke or any of the band smoke or have they given up?
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Gilmour allegedly quit smoking during the recording of WYWH when he heard his own breathing on the recording of a car stereo he made for the intro of the album title track. I remember reading an interview with Waters where he said he switched from smoking regular cigarettes to hash in the early 1970s but quit smoking altogether around the same time as Gilmour did.
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Waters in 1967, having a pack of cigarettes in his breast pocket:
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I don't recognize which brand it is.

Once I've read that in late 1967, Waters complained about his cigarettes being smoked by Barrett. Who (according to Waters) didn't buy his own.
I remember reading this as an example of the tension in the group at that time.