You know, normally I would stay away from these sorts of comment threads. I have to comment though.

My wife smokes menthols. We buy cheap smokes by the carton from the Seneca Indian Reservation. When we run out, we buy name brand as a stop-gap. My wife buys Newports sometimes. When someone recently bummed a smoke from her downtown, she handed him a Newp. He said “You be datin’ a brother, huh girl?” Laughed my ass off when she told me that.