News Cigarettes Are Cool Again? Inside Gen Z's Smoking Revival

[puke]

Hey does anybody here roll their own? I'm thinking about doing this instead of buying, I'll probably smoke less and don't know where to start.

 

[FlouroAcytelated]

Gen Z's smoking revival? What sort of backward journalism is this???

Smoking rates are at record lows. So is alcohol and drug use.

I still smoke sometimes as a bad habit, and I feel nothing but ostracization from younger people.

 

[FlouroAcytelated]

Hey does anybody here roll their own? I'm thinking about doing this instead of buying, I'll probably smoke less and don't know where to start.

I rolled my own for awhile. It makes smoking affordable. It gets the job done but it doesn't match the addictiveness and taste of premium cigarettes.

But they do get the job done. I used to buy those small drum packs of Tops brand and it would last me about 2 weeks for the same price as a pack of cigarettes.

Pro tip: most tobacco labeled as "pipe tobacco" is actually meant for rolling not a pipe (who the fuck still smokes a tobacco pipe??). You know those big bags of loose tobacco you see on the wall at the smoke shop. Pipe tobacco for whatever reason is taxed significantly less than rolling or cigarette tobacco. So they just label it as pipe, which allows them to sell like a whole pound of tobacco for super cheap

 

[Electrum1]

Smoking a cigarette has always been cool as long as you don't look like a nerd while doing it. Gen Z discovers already existing social things

Makes me remember a post I saw about "how to make mutuals" and it was just a post describing what friends are

 

[alasdairm]

Gen Z's smoking revival?

Smoking rates are at record lows.

both of these things can be true at the same time.

alasdair

 

[Mjäll]

I didn't realize there was a reason they would ever stop being cool.

Honestly though, vape.

Vapes are surely less harmful but lack all the trace alkaloids of tobacco, which are beta-carbolines/harmala alkaloids. Unless you vape actual tobacco.

 

[CalicoCatLover]

Vapes are surely less harmful but lacks all the trace alkaloids of tobacco, which are beta-carbolines/harmala alkaloids. Unless you vape actual tobacco.

I seriously don't think anyone should smoke....I imagine at blue light we are a bunch of james deans types...

Anyway don't smoke and just eat a salad kidz

 

[puke]

I rolled my own for awhile. It makes smoking affordable. It gets the job done but it doesn't match the addictiveness and taste of premium cigarettes.

But they do get the job done. I used to buy those small drum packs of Tops brand and it would last me about 2 weeks for the same price as a pack of cigarettes.

Pro tip: most tobacco labeled as "pipe tobacco" is actually meant for rolling not a pipe (who the fuck still smokes a tobacco pipe??). You know those big bags of loose tobacco you see on the wall at the smoke shop. Pipe tobacco for whatever reason is taxed significantly less than rolling or cigarette tobacco. So they just label it as pipe, which allows them to sell like a whole pound of tobacco for super cheap

Yeah, I think I'm gonna get myself a rolling machine, a bunch of tubes and find myself a good tobacco brand. I was hoping dunhill but they don't sell bags like that but American Spirit does, maybe I'll start next week.

 

[FlouroAcytelated]

both of these things can be true at the same time.

alasdair

True, but it's still a clickbaity title... I highly doubt Gen Z or alpha is going to bring back smoking. Some minor blip in the statistics is not a "revival".