Roll Your Own

[pigroaster]

Can you roll using one hand. I learned to do this when I was twenty on a construction crew!

 

[bracconiere]

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,,,

i can't rebuttal that, this is becoming a political discussion.....

 

[bracconiere]

Can you roll using one hand. I learned to do this when I was twenty on a construction crew!

no, but that would be a pretty cool trick!

 

[bleme]

check out http://fairtradetobacco.com/ best website ever

If you come out with a statement like that around here, you are likely to have your brewer's card revoked!

 

[bracconiere]

kinda off-topic, but respond to the OP....i'm trying to get off smoking and go back to dry snuff, think i'd be able to grow all my own that way...so it'd be virtually free to sniff tobacco for me! (just not that easy to give up cigs)

 

[kartracer2]

Yea quitting or at least trying to is tough. I guess I just haven't wanted to enough. I have gone a couple of weeks with out a smoke but still came back to them. I have quit other things that were not good for me when I was younger (wink, wink) but those were easy compared to cigs. Add to it I smoke menthol and that minty thing just makes it harder to give up they say. Oh well, none of us are getting out of this world alive right?

 

[madscientist451]

I used home made cigs as a crutch to quit smoking many years ago. Even back then the price of store -bought had gotten ridiculous, so I was saving money by buying bulk tobacco.
Instead of being able to pull one out of the pack and smoke whenever I wanted, I had to get out my little rolling machine and make one. After a while I was down to one or two cigs a day and then it was easy to just quit.

 

[bracconiere]

Oh well, none of us are getting out of this world alive right?

how true

 

[bleme]

My mom has a neighbor who is so bad with money that it is mindblowing! She is on disability, is always broke, and is spending a TON on cigs. Back in July my mom told her that she could save a ton by rolling her own. She checked at a shop and for $26 you could get the starter package with a rolling machine, 200 filters, and the tobacco to fill them. She declined because she was trying to quit. Her plan to quit is to smoke just half the cig and throw the other half away so for the last 8 months she has been buying twice as many packs!

Is it any wonder that with brain power like that, she is already broke on the 5th?

 

[Dave Sarber]

Tobacco at my local shop is $15.50 per pound, that lasts me a month. I roll "as needed", because it does cut down on how much you smoke.

 

[BruceH]

Smoked from 1980 to 1990. Once the first three months were done it was easy because my mind flipped and it smelled bad. The first three days were the worst. Every time I wanted a smoke I would peel and eat an orange or do push ups. It worked for me.

A carton of Marlboroughs was $4 on base when I was stationed in Germany mid 1980's. Every other week Winstons would go on sale for $2, Camel and Lucky Strike on sale were $1 a carton.