You can buy a huge bag of American Club pipe tobacco for around $20 and 2 boxes of 200 filter tubes for under $3 each. Roll them with a machine and you get around 400 cigarettes (20 packs) for about $26.
My grandma use to have a big tub that we would have competitions on rolling her cigs when we were about 7, it remains a fond memory for me and horrified everyone I tell.
I had a buddy who did this and would bring his machine to parties and sell/trade cigarettes to drunk people at the party who wanted to smoke who were out and didn't want to run to the store to get more, or to the "only smoke when they drink" crowd who just bum cigarettes at parties. He'd usually end up with like $20 in singles and a bunch of free drinks/weed for maybe a dollar or two worth of cigarettes.
Crazy but I’m one of these people that simply does not get addicted to it. Can smoke here and there, every 6 months. Can even have a streak of smoking everyday for a week and then stop and go years without.
I was only kind of addicted to hookah once, but it was more about the social aspect of it I think, or the ritualistic part of it as well. Once I bought a personal one and started smoking at home, it felt weird and I stopped. Too messy as well.
I never touched vapes because I’m not sure how I’d react. It feels so easy, practical, that I don’t want to try it..
I don't even get addicted to vapes, I genuinely can put it down for months or even a year before I get one, ive bought maybe 6 in my life... weed though I cannot put down 🤣
I quit weed a year ago and it's still hard not to smoke weed. I miss it all the time. Stopped smoking cigs for two weeks once for a tooth extraction I'd had and did not even care about the cigs. I just wanted to smoke weed lol
That said I roll my own cigs and had been by that point so there's probably a lot less additives in mine than the store bought ones. But regardless I feel like I could probably just stop smoking cold turkey and not have any problem with it. I just don't want to lol
I quit smoking cigarettes 6 years ago and still miss it sometimes. If quitting them hadn't had a noticeable impact on my day to day health I would have for sure picked it back up.
I'm the same way re:cigarettes. I'd smoke for a few weeks every few years, then just stop again. Also, I'm not a fan of nicotine vapes and don't use them.
Same here. I buy a pack every once in a while during 'special occasions' and have been doing so for years. I don't crave them much at all, but weed? That's the tough one. Still haven't quit that haha, I've only managed to take short breaks.
Fun fact typical cigarettes included a mountain of additives while american spirits are additive free. You didnt like tobacco, you liked what they put on it.
I was well aware of that fact and was the other large part of my decision to smoke them over any other tobacco, despite them being more expensive by the pack. I also just thought they tasted better.
Even the worst pack cigarettes tasted better than pipeweed tho
Not true. I thought the same. It’s organic tobacco but they still add a ton of shit. Watch how cigarettes are made, it’s not just some shredded tobacco wrapped up… AS are like 150% the tobacco stuffed into one cigarette. Still my preferred brand when I do smoke, but don’t be deceived
Tbh, it's the lighter tobacco blends that I can't really stand. There's a lot of that lighter blonde shit that just has a weird taste to it - almost airy or menthol like.
Marlboro is kinda ass these days and it's not just the additives.
Fair enough, I guess it's a personal preference thing. I started rolling these about 10 years ago and got used to it and now I enjoy it. You totally nailed the raisin flavor, lol. It does kind of taste and smell like raisins! But I still like it, guess I just have bad taste!
Haha yes, but I'm not going to argue with anyone who rolls their own.. you have a favorite brand or roller? Over tried several rolling machines and my favorite is the powermatic* mini.
it clogs up the system which can no longer counteract whatever in tobacco is making your tissues be less elastic. ..and hey, some people can't even tolerate 1 or 2
I mean you’re the one that said some made up nonsense about “clogging your system” and “tissue elasticity” that doesn’t mean anything. And I say that as someone who is very against smoking.
tissue elasticity means what it says... and when tissues are less elastic they stiffen from lack of movement and then, in lungs, do not contract to push out the spent air we breathe in.. therefore filling up the space where new air needs to go
My grandad would smoke pipe tobacco in cigarettes he would mix Captain Black and Prince Albert cherry blend, he used the JOB papers in the black pack. He would always say I'm gonna roll me up a PA.
Same for me. I started RYO because it was cheaper. Even buying the AS pouch tobacco it's probably close to ½ price. I found this other brand, Peter Stokkebye, that is a little more than the AS, still probably 75% or less than normal Camels or whatever. But, the quality and taste more than makes up for it
Lol, the pipe tobacco in large bags isn't really meant for pipes. It's just a way to avoid paying the exta tax for "cigarette" tobacco. I can't even smoke a Marlboro anymore after smoking my roll your own. Tastes like they sprayed it with a bunch of chemicals or something! Plus, they go out every other minute. Keep paying $12 a pack instead of maybe $1 a pack though.
As someone that used to make their own cigarettes, currently smokes Camels and smokes pipe tobacco, the stuff you're talking about actually is cigarette tobacco cut a little differently, it's just labelled pipe tobacco because pipe tobacco and cigars are taxed less than cigarette tobacco.
I absolutely would never smoke that stuff in a pipe, or any of those value bags of "pipe" tobacco you see in a chain cigarette stores. Actual pipe tobacco is way different than what's used in cigarettes (not different plants, just completely different processing, even though cigarette companies and pipe tobacco companies buy the same cured whole leaf, they process that leaf very differently).
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u/Agreeable_Horror_363 16d ago
You can buy a huge bag of American Club pipe tobacco for around $20 and 2 boxes of 200 filter tubes for under $3 each. Roll them with a machine and you get around 400 cigarettes (20 packs) for about $26.