Cigarettes Thread

**frunkasduck** · 02-07-2012, 12:06 AM

Any smokers here? What kind of cigarettes do you smoke? me, marlboro smooth 100's!

**lschiavo** · 02-07-2012, 12:14 AM

I've been rolling my own for years...filtered light tubes and all kinds of different tobacco. It's probably 10% the cost. I'm far to cheap to buy em anymore.

**frunkasduck** · 02-07-2012, 12:15 AM

I spend $6 on a pack every two days. you think rolling my own be a good option?

**lschiavo** · 02-07-2012, 12:21 AM

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Originally Posted by frunkasduck

I spend $6 on a pack every two days. you think rolling my own be a good option?

You can try it for pretty cheap and see if you like it. I can roll a pack in under 10 minutes so it's not a big time investment. You should be able to save about $600 a year...that will buy some nice beer stuff!

**frunkasduck** · 02-07-2012, 12:22 AM

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Originally Posted by lschiavo

You can try it for pretty cheap and see if you like it. I can roll a pack in under 10 minutes so it's not a big time investment. You should be able to save about $600 a year...that will buy some nice beer stuff!

that's some pretty big numbers! i'l definitely check it out, thanks!

**lschiavo** · 02-07-2012, 12:35 AM

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Originally Posted by frunkasduck

that's some pretty big numbers! i'l definitely check it out, thanks!

You bet. The best injecting roller I have found is a Gizeh made in Germany. It's not expensive maybe $10 but it works much better than others and may save some frustration getting started.

Experiment with small pouches of tobacco. You will find one you like. I use mostly pipe tobacco. It's a little courser cut but cheaper and works just fine.

**Rerun** · 03-07-2012, 01:34 AM

lschiavo and frunkasduck - a great resource is ryomagazine.com

There are great reviews on tobacco/tubes/machines etc.
lschiavo, do yourself a favor and get a crank style injector (the Gizeh is a slide I assume?) The Premier Supermatic and the Top-O-Matic are both all metal stout machines that will last years. Both retail at about $45. I used the Supermatic for about 6 years and it paid for itself. I recently bought the Powermatic II electric injector and I love it.

frunkasduck - I pay about $12 for a lb of tobacco ( 2 cartons ) and about 2.50 for 200 tubes - so about $9 per carton. All it takes is time to stuff 'em.
BTW "pipe" tobacco is just cigarette tobacco labeled as "pipe" tobacco because the government raised the tax on loose cigarette tobacco A LOT but not pipe tobacco so the companies labeled it as pipe tobacco to get around raising the prices, but I'm sure that will change eventually.

Hope this helps,

Ryan

**lschiavo** · 03-07-2012, 02:17 AM

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Originally Posted by Rerun

BTW "pipe" tobacco is just cigarette tobacco labeled as "pipe" tobacco because the government raised the tax on loose cigarette tobacco A LOT but not pipe tobacco so the companies labeled it as pipe tobacco to get around raising the prices, but I'm sure that will change eventually.
Ryan

Shhhh...lets keep that a secret

I roll mobile (foldgers coffee can with tobacco, tubes and my slider) so the big machines aren't for me. I have seen them and they seem to work great though.

**scrambledegg81** · 03-07-2012, 07:55 AM

I tried corncobs to get me off of regular smokes, but I could never get used to the amount of work to get a good smoke going (plus the fact that I couldn't inhale....). I would up switching from Camel Turkish Silvers to American Spirits, and to be honest, they're the only smoke that never left me with gobs of lung butter at the end of the day. If there's something to be said about organically grown tobacco...

CreamyGoodness · 03-07-2012, 02:25 PM

In my hippy college days (go ahead, throw stuff at me) I would buy a pouch of Samson and then spend an hour with a rolling machine and a bag of filters from the head shop. Now that I'm officially a quitter, THOSE cheapos are amongst the ones I miss the most.