Tailormades versus rollies

[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.

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You're bored aye?

[jrandom]

You're bored aye?

Horribly so.

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Nasal shottys - Old Holborn, when there's a full moon.

On a normal night I just get the wife to blow cocaine up my bum

[Subike]

rollys because they dont continue to fill where ever you are with smoke when you are not "puffing" on them.
I can not see how they think that the sulper added to Taylor mades, to keep them burning is any less healthy.?
With rollys, well, they last longer, taste better, dont burn away to nothing in 5 min, and because you have to make them, IMO you smoke less.
I would smoke 20 a day if I used taylor mades.
I smoke 10 - 15 max with rollys. ( still 10 -15 too many)

But I do agree that both are not good for the health, one day I might get the self control to see them out of my life. Till then? bugger wheres my baccy pouch

[spacemonkey]

I'm an ex smoker, but when I smoked it was Port Royal for me. The flavour was so vastly richer, complex and smoother than any factory ciggy I ever had.
I didn't choose it by price (could afford to smoke whatever I liked back then) but for flavour....... Oh and there is not much to compete with the smell of a freshly opened packet of Port Royal either!

I'd guess it's worse for your health due to 2 reasons;
1/ Rollups use a different filter (often smaller)
2/ Stronger tobacco (you certainly get a far bigger hit from it)

Not sure how bad for you the saltpeter and such like that they put into the factory made's (to keep them burning) is for you though????

[scumdog]

They both fuck your health - and you are paying to do so.

BTW: Factory-mades are like a jug of beer that has a hole in the bottom.

Both allow the product you paid for to disappear even when you're not using it..

[jtzzr]

As a smoker i prefer Rollies as opposed to the other, price and taste is the main reason.

But I wish I hadn`t started at all, what a disgusting habbit.

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Ya won't catch me sucking on fags

[Skyryder]

If ya gonna smoke smoke a pipe.


Skyryder

[naphazoline]

Ya won't catch me sucking on fags

What about a butt then?

[sunhuntin]

They both fuck your health - and you are paying to do so.

BTW: Factory-mades are like a jug of beer that has a hole in the bottom.

Both allow the product you paid for to disappear even when you're not using it..

yep. my ex in canada used to smoke cigs made on a nearby indian reservation... they looked like factory ones. the way he was, he would light one, have a few puffs, put it in the ash tray to go do something and forget about the smoke. his ash trays smoked more than he did, lol.

personally, im a non smoker, and by the time i entered glenns life, he was too set in his ways to consider retraining. besides, nothing beats the second hand smoke on a chilly canadian morning while out on the bike together. [and dodging the ashes at the same time.]

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What about a butt then?

Rim jobs are fine - but no fags

[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.

[Genestho]

Yuk on the occasion I've smoked a rolly, the ash goes all over your clothes! Or the filter sticks sticks to your lip! And the other thing when I roll them for drunk friends, they turn into tree stumps! Or trumpets! Hmmm I do smoke tailor mades though, and it is gross, must give up...one day