Roll Your Own

[sloanfamilydsm]

$10 a carton.

Can you top that?

 

[sloanfamilydsm]

Like an ISpy game

 

[Zuljin]

I did that for a while when I smoked. It is a lot less expensive, and you can blend your own flavors.

Keep the loose tobacco from drying out. Dry tobacco smokes hot and fast.

 

[sloanfamilydsm]

Two bags. One in the freezer (alongside me hops) one open to pull from.

 

[Billy-Klubb]

I used to roll my own. I miss cigarettes.

 

[Yooper]

Yep! Quit smoking. $0.

I smoked when I was in the Army, and in basic training the drill sergeant yelled "Fall out and smoke em if you got em!". The non-smokers had to stay at attention in the hot sun in Missouri in July (fondly called misery, instead of Missouri)- while the smokers lounged in the shade lighting them up. Hello- I became a smoker on day #2 of basic training.

I smoked for a while after that, but quit in 1986. My dad, who smoked for 50 years, quit in 2000. I miss the flavor, but not the stench that hangs onto people's clothes and stuff.

 

[chawn]

I started smoking in college for no good reason and now use an ecigarette. Trying to cut costs, I started making my own "juice." It's easy and inexpensive (perhaps $3/wk).

 

[cank]

I'm a Sloan from Iowa. PM me.
Don't smoke but make good beer!

 

[unionrdr]

Any kind of loose tobacco price shot through the sealing a few years ago around here after Obama went after cig taxes & all that. No savings at all now. Gee thanks...I still have the Top cig machine that takes the filtered tubes. I have a couple large packs of Bugler papers I roll cigs with occasionally.

 

[LeftyRighty]

I grow my own tobacco, no additives, better smoking. Cost is about 35 cents a pack (and 20 cents of that is the rolling papers).
check out http://fairtradetobacco.com/ best website ever

Note: that web site will offers whole-leaf cured tobacco for sale, cheaper and higher quality than store-bought. Please understand, whole-leaf tobacco is an agricultural product, like buying tomatos, corn, etc from farmers market. Once it is cut, shredded, rolled, whatnot, it is 'processed' tobacco - that's when all the regs & taxes and ATF are applied.

 

[hunter_le five]

I used to roll my own by hand from the little pouches because it was so much cheaper. Bugler, Bali Shag, Top, Drum... Also liked the taste better, but the lack of a filter probably took a toll on my lungs.

After all the new taxes on loose tobacco got passed, it really wasn't much cheaper anymore, and I quit soon after. I do miss it, but I'm glad I did.

 

[sloanfamilydsm]

The pipe tobacco is significantly cheaper than the "cigarette" tobacco (see pic). Its a richer flavor, but for the price difference I am not gonna be picky.

I have quit smoking twice in the last 20 or so years. Once for 18 months and again a few years later for 30 months. I'm sure I will quit again someday and probably start again someday later. Seems to be something I enjoy, and don't mind starting n stopping.
Congrats to those that have successfully quit for good and thanks for not busting the balls of us that choose to smoke

 

[Airplanedoc]

Just curious, how long does it take to roll a carton of smokes?

 

[sloanfamilydsm]

Never done all of them at once before. More of a make upon demand person. Once in a while I will bang out a whole pack ~5 min? Depends how picky I am about the tightness of the roll as some need packed after making.

 

[LeftyRighty]

Just curious, how long does it take to roll a carton of smokes?

I roll non-filtered, with a thumb roller, because I like a fullflavor smoke. Usually takes me between 10-15 minutes to roll a pack. But since I'm watching TV as I roll, am not really concentrating on effecient use of time.

 

[unionrdr]

With loose-leaf papers I roll by hand. I've had friends that could roll by hand every bit as good as a rolling machine. I never quite make it. But that tobacco site looks really interesting.

 

[sloanfamilydsm]

I do keep a pack of zigzags on hand incase I run out of tubes, but never have been good at hand rolling a smoke. I always roll them to loose and end up eating half the tobacco

 

[mikescooling]

I only hand roll, because it slows me down and you have to find a place to hand roll a cig. I can't just pull out a pack of smokes and gun-a-stick

 

[sloanfamilydsm]

I only hand roll, because it slows me down and you have to find a place to hand roll a cig. I can't just pull out a pack of smokes and gun-a-stick

That is a major benefit of rolling your own. Remove the convenience factor and you will smoke less

 

[rekoob]

I rolled some for a short time some years ago, never really got the hang of it.
I'm using an ecig now, for the past year. Haven't made my own juice but have rebuilt the coils. So much cheaper then what I was spending on packs.

 

[unionrdr]

I'm interested in that tobacco site. Loose leaf stuff you can by pre-selected to shred & make your own. Some "kits" like common commercial cigs, but no chemicals. Advertised to be 100% tobacco. Might just try it...

 

[sloanfamilydsm]

I grow my own tobacco, no additives, better smoking. Cost is about 35 cents a pack (and 20 cents of that is the rolling papers).
check out http://fairtradetobacco.com/ best website ever

Note: that web site will offers whole-leaf cured tobacco for sale, cheaper and higher quality than store-bought. Please understand, whole-leaf tobacco is an agricultural product, like buying tomatos, corn, etc from farmers market. Once it is cut, shredded, rolled, whatnot, it is 'processed' tobacco - that's when all the regs & taxes and ATF are applied.

Thanks for the great link. I registered with them & will also have to try them out.
Without buying the machine, how would I shred the tobacco?

 

[LeftyRighty]

Without buying the machine, how would I shred the tobacco?

there is a whole section on the website on shredding, without the electric machines, there is no easy way. That's the down-side of grow-your-own or buy-whole-leaf.

I use a hand crank pasta-maker, with the angelhair attachment. Takes me 2-3 days to process a year's crop. Most difficult part is getting/keeping the leaf at the proper moisture content for easy shredding. PITA but once done, I got smokes for a couple years.

 

[Ricardododo]

With loose-leaf papers I roll by hand. I've had friends that could roll by hand every bit as good as an efficient rolling machine. I never quite make it. But that tobacco site looks really interesting.

Wow! Surprising speed. I tried to make cigarettes myself, but I couldn't make the perfect cigarette anyway. I had to give up and chose a cigarette maker. This is a better choice for me, ha ha ha ha.

 

[day_trippr]

"practise practise practise"

I was on a fly-in fishing trip about 100 miles south of Hudson Bay with a handful of my dad's buddies a bunch of decades ago and one of them really wanted a rolled smoke but could not pull it off. I offered to roll him one and turned over a near perfect ciggy.

From across the cabin my dad shot me a look that curled my hair. Not a big fan of me showing off that skill

Cheers!

 

[seatazzz]

I've been rolling my own for several years, on my second hand-crank machine (1st one lost a couple springs). We've got native reservations in every direction around here; they can still sell the "good" loose tobacco (labelled as pipe tobacco but has the finer shred of cigarette tobacco) and the price is stupid cheap. I buy a one-pound bag for $12.99, and two boxes of tubes (200 each) for about $4 each, and I'm good for several weeks. Anymore if I have to buy commercial smokes, they make me hack like crazy and also make me slightly nauseous. The home-rolleds don't. Read somewhere that it's the chemicals the commercial big guys put in the tobacco.

 

[kartracer2]

I've been rolling my own for several years, on my second hand-crank machine (1st one lost a couple springs). We've got native reservations in every direction around here; they can still sell the "good" loose tobacco (labelled as pipe tobacco but has the finer shred of cigarette tobacco) and the price is stupid cheap. I buy a one-pound bag for $12.99, and two boxes of tubes (200 each) for about $4 each, and I'm good for several weeks. Anymore if I have to buy commercial smokes, they make me hack like crazy and also make me slightly nauseous. The home-rolleds don't. Read somewhere that it's the chemicals the commercial big guys put in the tobacco.

Yea close to the same here price wise, 15 & 5 for the 100mm's. I have bought from a place in Chicago cheaper but have to buy like 3 bags and 6 box's of tubes to actually be cheaper when shipping is added. I don't like having that much of a supply around, I smoke more when I have plenty of supplies. I've used the same machine for almost 4 years and still working great but I too have a spring break twice. I just bend a loop open out of the end coil and good to go again. It wears out right at the hole on the moving lever, easy fix.
I also agree about store bought's, besides the way they smoke (seem to want to go out with the fire safe **** they use) they taste like crap. I guess any non smoker would say that (lol). I have been trying to cut back lately, just because I was finding I "smoke" to many just to have one smoldering. I try not to have them next to "my chair". I keep them someplace that I have to get up or move to get one. Seems to help cut down on the "habit /reflex" smokes, makes me think about "needing" one rather than just "wanting" one.

 

[bracconiere]

come'on now, we know the gov'ment doesn't like to see us enjoying ourselves....affordable drugs, like making beer for cheap shouldn't be discussed....

 

[kartracer2]

come'on now, we know the gov'ment doesn't like to see us enjoying ourselves....affordable drugs, like making beer for cheap shouldn't be discussed....

No I think they do, more so if they can get by taxing it in a huge way. The amount of taxes on a pack of smokes is asinine. It's one thing to tax an item or service a certain amount for use in the basic sense but to add tax that almost doubles the cost,, no. I better stop here, I'll just get my self all worked up and want a smoke and a beer to settle down,,,

 

[applescrap]

I loved to smoke American spirit red pouch, organic. Didnt pre roll, just rolled one when I wanted it. The ritual was part of the fun. Tried pre rolling many, but never caught up.