Tailormades versus rollies

**SixPackBack** · 5th July 2009, 20:58

Originally Posted by McJim

Embassy Filter, Embassy No1, Regal King Size and Kensitas Club.

Nicer than any hand rolled fags and since I used to do in 60 of the bastards per day I could not be arsed rolling my own.

Can't get a decent cigarette outside Jockland though - even in England I found it difficult to lay hands on any of the above brands. Maybe that's why quitting was so easy in the end.

Don't drink any more either since it's too difficult to get my hands on a tap drawn pint of Tennents 70/- ale.

Fookin soft scots...Senior Service and Woodbines, now they was full strength fags for real men.

**jaymzw** · 5th July 2009, 21:04

Smoking is detrimental to ones health. As such i prefer not to partake. Although each to their own, i do hope that you dont need my taxes to pay for your lung transplant or whatever.
Yeah, my parents smoke. Bastards!

Seriously, how do you afford it though? A pack a day or what ever, thats an expensive habit.

**gwigs** · 5th July 2009, 21:10

Originally Posted by jaymzw

Smoking is detrimental to ones health. As such i prefer not to partake. Although each to their own, i do hope that you dont need my taxes to pay for your lung transplant or whatever.
Yeah, my parents smoke. Bastards!

Seriously, how do you afford it though? A pack a day or what ever, thats an expensive habit.

I am an ex smoker for 13yrs now and if I did get lung cancer I reckon the taxes I paid on ciggies smoked over 25yrs would have paid for quite a few lung transplants etc so non smokers aint paying taxes for a smokers health care.

**scumdog** · 5th July 2009, 21:43

Originally Posted by gwigs

I am an ex smoker for 13yrs now and if I did get lung cancer I reckon the taxes I paid on ciggies smoked over 25yrs would have paid for quite a few lung transplants etc so non smokers aint paying taxes for a smokers health care.

I doubt your taxes would even pay for one transplant...

**MisterD** · 5th July 2009, 22:59

Rollies...started them at about 18 and quit before I was 21, and I cured the "want a tab with me pint" thing by sitting in the pub rolling them for everyone else...at the end of the day, a rollie you can make to your own spec which as a student was of the "single strand of tobacco wrapped in paper" variety and sometimes with resinous additives. It's difficult to retro-fit that to a factory made...

**fridayflash** · 5th July 2009, 23:48

tailor mades for me.. although im mostly non smoker nowadays i still
buy the odd pack...and not just when drinking.
i like rollies too but none of those foul filter things tho...

**Forest** · 6th July 2009, 01:06

I'm rather partial to the small of a good pipe tobacco (like Borkum Riff).

I really don't like smoking pipes myself. But I don't mind if somebody else wants to smoke one. Bonus points if we're on a boat.

**Toaster** · 6th July 2009, 02:50

I don't smoke, I just occassionally find myself attached to the end of a hot white burning thing between my lips.

**SARGE** · 6th July 2009, 06:56

Originally Posted by jrandom

So, according to The News (tm), factory-made cigarettes are better for you than roll-yer-owns.

I suppose that research might be interesting if you smoke a lot of cigarettes and are looking to minimise damage, although to my mind, that approach is, well, stupid, given that both of the above are probably going to kill you real good if you're smoking one every hour of every day.

No, you might as well smoke what you like in that case, and rollies are cheaper.

Personally, I smoke tobacco once every week or two. Sometimes in a pipe, sometimes in a cigarette, very occasionally a cigar (although I can't really afford to smoke cigars these days).

But I've never met a factory-made cigarette I really liked; hand-rolled Port Royal cigarettes, on the other hand, I find quite delightful as a richly flavoured nicotine chaser to an evening's drinking.

And I've observed that a majority of the KB smoking fraternity seem to incline towards hand-rolled cigarettes, too. I'm not sure if it's for reasons of cost, or simply because the tobacco is nicer.

So, what is it, smokers? Tailormades, or rollies? What's your poison, and for what reason?

And, as an aside, how on earth does one manage to get addicted to smoking cigarettes? I can't imagine the sheer hard work that you must have to put in to get past the 'yuck' barrier to the point where you're smoking the things throughout every day.

Is there anyone who didn't smoke as a youngster, but took it up as an adult, and then increased their consumption to 'Daily Smoker (tm)' levels? Personally, after a few years of occasional tobacco use, I can't imagine doing that.

Or are all the surviving Daily Smokers (tm) people who were peer-pressured through the 'yuck barrier' into becoming addicted while still young and vulnerable?

Your comments please, ladies and gentlemen.

MEH .ive been smoking Marlboro Red for 35 years ( although i DID have a stint where i smoked Lucky Strike and Camel) .. i still smoke cigars regularly and dont want to quit any of them.. ican get through a pack of 25 in a day easy

fuck death and the lung cancer he rode in on

**Mr Merde** · 6th July 2009, 08:26

Originally Posted by jaymzw

Smoking is detrimental to ones health. As such i prefer not to partake. Although each to their own, i do hope that you dont need my taxes to pay for your lung transplant or whatever.
Yeah, my parents smoke. Bastards!

Seriously, how do you afford it though? A pack a day or what ever, thats an expensive habit.

Government cant afford people to stop smoking.

Dont know the figures for NZ but in the UK it was calculated that the government makes enough tax from smokers to build a new hospital in every county and staff it , every year. As smokers statistically lived a shorter lifespan that meant those who didnt smoke had the benifit of a free hospitasl.

Personal taxes would have to go up as the government wouldnt take a cut in their revenue

**Usarka** · 6th July 2009, 08:34

Originally Posted by jrandom

Is there anyone who didn't smoke as a youngster, but took it up as an adult, and then increased their consumption to 'Daily Smoker (tm)' levels? Personally, after a few years of occasional tobacco use, I can't imagine doing that.

Mixing hash with bacco to make a juicy tasty spliff has got a few people hooked......

**martybabe** · 6th July 2009, 08:41

I hated smokes as a yoof but took up smoking a pipe one very cold winter on picket duty ,stood around a brazier freezing my arse off for weeks on end.

I loved smoking a pipe but later moved on to roll ups for the convenience then onto factory made, where I have been stuck, on and off ,for 30 years.

I did get tremendous pleasure from fiddling with and smoking my pipes but looking back now,starting smoking was the single most stupid thing I ever did. I spit phlegumly sp in the general direction of all addictions, they's bastard things to control for the weak willed like myself.