Rolling my own

I like the drum and use top filters
Scott

In regards to the online sites........... some States are making it illegal to buy cigarettes online. Thier losing tax dollars. Read somewhere that Illinois is even sueing some buyers for unpaid taxes, got one guy to the tune of 12K, don't know how true that is. If you go to some online sites they tell you which States they will not sell to because of this tax issue.

Have a # for a sample carton of "American Spirit" brand. 800-872-6460 or you could go to their website....... www.nascigs.com

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Sorry...another ex-smoker here...turned 40 and quit..now 44...I can run now and take deep breathes with out coughing....I didnt want regrets.

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I'd like to try growing some too so would be interested in some seeds!

Lew

Rolling my own with natural American Spirit, TOP brand filter tubes, and the TOP brand "cigarette machine" (the slidy thing). Smoking tobacco without additives is amazing, I still can't believe how casual I am now about smoking after almost 30 years of more or less desperate addiction. My consumption went down to about a fourth of what I used to smoke, without my noticing much of it. I guess the biggest deal during the week of adjusting to the "new system" was missing out on all that formaldehyde and arsenic my body was used to As always, there was nothing deliberate about changing to American Spirit... I wanted to roll my own and happened to like the turquoise tins, LOL! Got a very good thing (as smoking goes) for choosing by looks.

My local drugstore happens to sell American Spirit - meds and inhalers and such at one end, tobacco and booze at the other, go figure - and the 150g tins go for the same price as the same-sized tins of Drum or Top. American Spirit also has a website where you can order directly.

This is OT, but, I used to work under a research chemist who had been employed by a major tobacco company that will remain nameless. He informed us of a project he had to work on that was to develop an additive for the tobacco that brought the nicotine into your circulatory system at lightening speed. In a sense, making the cigarette more addictive, sort of like free-basing cocaine makes it more addictive that snorting it.

If only the "just say no" campaign would have come along a year or two earlier, it would have been socially acceptable to avoid smoking at a young age. I'm so proud of my DD for avoiding all of these traps. Think I'll give her another big hug when I see her again.

Yes, American Spirit, that's the name I was trying to think of. Thank you bare.

first let me qualify what i am about to say...i have never smoked a cig.....
a pipe in the old days, a cigar everyonce in a while now...but my family has grown bright leaf for 8 generations. on growing your own.....i fear its like most things...its more complicated than you know.. smoking tobacco is a blend of several core tobaccos..bright leaf for light color,,,burleys for depth of flavor and turkish for mildness and others for filler. or at least thats the way it was in the old days. all tobacco (like the other killer thats still advertised on tv and magizines) has to be aged under very specific ambiant conditions...and aged for years...

Trying to grow your own smoking tobacco will meet with the same success as a beginner distillest (some of that in my family also). you can drink it...in smalll doses but you will have to learn to control the facial muscles to do it without making funny faces. as in "agggghhh! whew! whooosh!,,,,yeah thats smooth stuff.....got any water?"

by the way, the depth of aroma of cured bright leaf is THE BEST smell i have ever experienced. i guess its like my Dad used to say about coffie..."if it tasted as good as it smelled,,,he would drink it"

I was in the Army for 8 years, and separated in December of '96. I started rolling my own in the first Iraq war, under King George I, and continued until separation. When did it become illegal?

I smoked for 22 years (started at 14). I am on my 6th week of quitting. I also quit several times before, but this time was different. I took a couple of pasture raised hogs to a USDA facility for slaughter and one got loose, due to their help not paying attention. Of course, they did not have a fence around this facility in the country, and I chased that hog for 2 1/2 hours. After almost puking my guts out from all of the aerobic exertion, I decided that it was time for a change. That was the last day I smoked.

I have not had a craving for a smoke since then; however, I did gain 10 pounds within the first 3 weeks, but I seem to have stabilized since then. I don't know where I put the weight as my pants still fit, but the scale doesn't lie.

That is some good tasting meat though.

Not a smoker. But I could not help buuuut to butt in a little.(pun intended)
My mother smoked when I was little for several years. I have asthma. Had an attack when i was pregnant that nearly killed me and the baby. The hospital staff were quick.
Anyway, if it is that expensive maybe it would be a good time to stop, and spare the people around you the bad health.
I am not trying to be nasty. Just seems logical.

I started smoking again 10 years after quitting. Frugal me couldn't bring myself to pay that much for packaged cigarettes. I was buying Farmer's Gold additive free tobacco and filtered tubes and it brought my costs down to $13 a carton. Now I am getting American Spirit tobacco, costs a little more, but is a better tobacco.

I started rolling my own and I bought Bugler...it's a little too harsh for me,even using filter tubes.

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First thing I thought of when I saw this title was someone rolling their own hair in curlers.

Can you tell I'm not a smoker?

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Dunno. I can tell you it was illegal when I was in back in the early 80's. Considered drug paraphanalia, and would earn you brig time and then a dishonerable discharge if you persisted. Watched it happen to others, decided I didn't want to join them in it.

canucklehead, that the first Ive ever heard of that. That is pretty cool. My wife is from NC, and Ive often wondered if any of the farmers smoked their own tobacco.