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Tobacco: Rolling your Own vs. Store bought cigarettes

There are two types: those that don't go out and have a chemical to make it this way.

And those that do go out which have more chemicals to stop the burning. They are called fire safe cigarettes (FSC) and I hear they taste even worse than regular ones.
 
It just depends on the paper with rollys.

rice paper (like joints) go out

cotton paper burns till it's done.

alternatively rizzla blue and orange
 
I used to smoke rollies all the time when I first moved out on my own. I was broke and lived in a hotel and with $1 for 100 papers and 10 bucks for a bag of tabaccky that could make endless fucking cigs hell yah. I used to roll 'em by hand like joints. Everybody thought it was ghetto as hell until they ran out of cigs and I'd get knocks on my door asking for rollies. If you tried to bum a cig from me in eastern PA at 5 bucks a pack I'd ask for a quarter I was that broke but I had no problem sending someone away with 3 or 4 rollies. Other people wouldn't smoke my cigs under any conditions so it was cool either people bum some and it don't cost nothing or they don't and I keep my shit for myself.

It's supposed to be healthier and all that jazz but mainly I just liked saving money and I liked the fact I didn't have some pussy ass filter taking away my nic buzz cause I used to be a fucking fiend for the shit. First thing I'd do after drinking a few sips of my morning coffee (always hungover) I'd pack a lip and smoke a couple. Those were the salad days.

Smoking is dead. Vaping is the future!

I got an NJOY myself about 5 years back when everyone wasn't all about vaping. Never really use the fucker I like it but I feel like a dousche using it. Everytime I see someone with one of those vapes the FIRST thing I think is that dude is a giant pussy.
 
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in a pinch, rolling tobacco works. but boy do i hate smoking pipe tobacco (eg. Largo, 4 Aces, etc.) in a rolled cigarette.

i smoke Camel Filters...in Washington brand name smokes are $10 per pack! so i dont normally buy packs of Camels or Marlboros. I usually buy the "push your own" smokes with tubes and loose tobacco , a guy at my clinic sells 'em 8 for a dollar. they're not great but you cant beat the price...Also i like Parliament Lights with the recessed filter.
a pouch of Largo here cost 1.50$ lol I've rolled plenty of cigarettes with those in the rough times, it does the trick but definitely isn't ideal
 
I just started rolling my own last week. I've smoked steadily for 15 years now. Buying packs from the gas station is expensive as hell. I smoked pall mall menthol light 100's (pack to a pack and a half a day) and the loose tobacco I chose if I was blindfolded I wouldn't be able to tell the difference. The only difference I notice is they burn a bit differently.

Sit down in the evening and watch the news while I roll a packs worth for the next day

I got papers filters (sorry I gotta have filters. Can't stand tobacco getting in my mouth) tobacco a couple of those little hand rollers and a couple of cute little hard plastic container pack type of things to keep my prerolled ones in. All of that for over a third less then what I was spending at the gas station.

I'm not made of money so hell yes I'm rolling my own and damn proud of it
 
Filtered = The Good Stuff pipe tobacco with whatever filters are the cheapest.

Non filtered = Bugler and the tobacco even comes with its own pack of papers!

Cant stand using any of those extra long papers as they burn all goofy because some parts have thicker spots of paper due to overlapping. Also using double wide papers just ends up with super thick paper that tastes like shit due to too much damn paper, so i stick to normal sized papers. Bugler papers are bad but i like to have a backup pack around like some normal white pack of zig zags. Recently i got into a special way of rolling with the rice and hemp papers with rolling exactly 1 paper width the whole way around and burning off the excess so they burn perfectly even.
 
I just started rolling my own last week. I've smoked steadily for 15 years now. Buying packs from the gas station is expensive as hell. I smoked pall mall menthol light 100's (pack to a pack and a half a day) and the loose tobacco I chose if I was blindfolded I wouldn't be able to tell the difference. The only difference I notice is they burn a bit differently.

Sit down in the evening and watch the news while I roll a packs worth for the next day

I got papers filters (sorry I gotta have filters. Can't stand tobacco getting in my mouth) tobacco a couple of those little hand rollers and a couple of cute little hard plastic container pack type of things to keep my prerolled ones in. All of that for over a third less then what I was spending at the gas station.

I'm not made of money so hell yes I'm rolling my own and damn proud of it
Yup same thing here! I use the gambler tobacco and tubes and I save so much fuckin money that it's ridiculous! I can't bring myself to spend $10 on a pack of new ports, fuck that shit!!! I've been smoking the Rollie's for about 5yrs now and they are normal to me now. I get a 1lb. Bag and 3 boxes of tubes and I'm good for 12-13 days. That's $16 for a lb of tobacco and $3per box of tubes so $25 for 1/3 of a month so $75 a month, and that's smoking and giving out over 2pks a day! That's be $600 a month smoking 2pks of new ports a day! FUCK THAT! That's a lot of money I can spend on take out or real drugs, lol! I guess I'm just a cheap bastard but I think it makes all the sense in the world to roll ur own!
I do the same thing, I watch the nightly news and roll 2 1/2 packs for the next day lol! I got a top rolling machine a few yrs back for $60 and this thing is worth it's weight in gold to me. I bang out 2 1/2 pks in like 20minutes!
 
Yup same thing here! I use the gambler tobacco and tubes and I save so much fuckin money that it's ridiculous! I can't bring myself to spend $10 on a pack of new ports, fuck that shit!!! I've been smoking the Rollie's for about 5yrs now and they are normal to me now. I get a 1lb. Bag and 3 boxes of tubes and I'm good for 12-13 days. That's $16 for a lb of tobacco and $3per box of tubes so $25 for 1/3 of a month so $75 a month, and that's smoking and giving out over 2pks a day! That's be $600 a month smoking 2pks of new ports a day! FUCK THAT! That's a lot of money I can spend on take out or real drugs, lol! I guess I'm just a cheap bastard but I think it makes all the sense in the world to roll ur own!
I do the same thing, I watch the nightly news and roll 2 1/2 packs for the next day lol! I got a top rolling machine a few yrs back for $60 and this thing is worth it's weight in gold to me. I bang out 2 1/2 pks in like 20minutes!

How does that top rolling machine work
 
I use the same top rolling machine probably. I have the crank one and it has put up with years of abuse. She has been rode hard and out away wet. After that 8+ years of owning it only one thing has gone wrong and i have to readjust a spot on the bottom after each cig for the crank to open the tobacco spot. Sure it adds a little extra effort but who cares, this thing has been worth more than the money i spent on it and has lasted way longer than i thought it would. I will ride this pile of shit till the day she dies also! Love live the topp roller!!!!! (Btw if you dont use one or have one it is 100% worth the money if you roll your own cigs, it seems to outlast anyones expectations.)
 
I use the same top rolling machine probably. I have the crank one and it has put up with years of abuse. She has been rode hard and out away wet. After that 8+ years of owning it only one thing has gone wrong and i have to readjust a spot on the bottom after each cig for the crank to open the tobacco spot. Sure it adds a little extra effort but who cares, this thing has been worth more than the money i spent on it and has lasted way longer than i thought it would. I will ride this pile of shit till the day she dies also! Love live the topp roller!!!!! (Btw if you dont use one or have one it is 100% worth the money if you roll your own cigs, it seems to outlast anyones expectations.)
Yup I got the same one I think! The top o' matic it's called on the sticker. It's got the crank too. I had an issue with it last month, I went up to Maine and bought some strange brand of tobacco cause it was mad cheap and fuck did I ever regret it. This shit was like kinda moist and it gunked my machine all up for a week or so. It took me a few days to realize that it was the shitty moist tobacco that was fucking shit up. I mean this shit was slightly moist and it fucked it all up, I started drying it out by leaving it out overnight on paper towels and that seemed to do the trick, the machine came back to life!!! I was so happy lol. I've become quite attached to my machine! I thought I'd have to go back to my shitty little blue handheld roller :( well I'm gonna try to go back to sleep so I'll cya guys later!
 
Yup thats the roller alright! Although my sticker came off a few years back. Mine has a metal part of the bottom that is bent and you have to reset it after each cig fornit to open properly lol. But like i said she still works like a goddamn charm!
 
When I'm high on stims I fucking love rolling tobacco cigs, especially Drum. I was at a festival last year for 3 days on speed/benzos etc. and I smoked so many that my voice was raspy for a few days. If I'm not high I rarely if ever smoke but I will almost only smoke mint flavored cigs or anything people offer me.

But for me vaping > any kind of cigarette, I love it.
 
Yup thats the roller alright! Although my sticker came off a few years back. Mine has a metal part of the bottom that is bent and you have to reset it after each cig fornit to open properly lol. But like i said she still works like a goddamn charm!
Yup I love my machine too! When u say u had to adjust something at the bottom of it what do u mean? Like underneath where the innards are or the little screw thing at the bottom when the machine is facing u? I'm having some issues ever since I used damp tobacco so I'm trying to figure out what exactly I can do to not have the small "sticking" issue I'm having with the metal piece that shoots into the tube when u turn the crank...
 
I'm having some issues ever since I used damp tobacco so I'm trying to figure out what exactly I can do to nk...
I've heard the trick for moist tobacco is to nuke it in a microwave for 10 or 20 seconds and that will dry it out.
 
I've heard the trick for moist tobacco is to nuke it in a microwave for 10 or 20 seconds and that will dry it out.
Ahh nuke it, I didn't even think of nuking it! I was in a hotel at the time so I didn't have a microwave but if I ever have that issue again I'm gonna try that.
 
Uhm if your machine is like mine that's a bad idea. There's metal in it and I can't take the metal shooting spike out of mine. Just a thought lol.
 
My wife and I have been rolling our own for many years, and when you finally find a tobacco and a tube that you enjoy and work well together we'd rather have ours than store bought. Smokin G's mellow turkish blend and golden harvest king size tubes create a fine smoke, in our opinion and about every person that trys a cigarette from us. And as far as money, there is no comparison. For less than $20 we get a little over a carton of cigarettes, and what do you get at the station, 3 packs for $20?
 
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