# Home-rolled cigarettes? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 13, 2009, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/home-rolled-cigarettes/496235 "2009-05-13T00:43:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2009, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/home-rolled-cigarettes/496235/21 "2009-05-13T19:50:10Z")
I use these [water pillows](http://www.waterpillowsinfo.com/product/) to keep tobacco humid. They’re pretty inexpensive at my local tobacco shop. ---
**Author:** ![redtail23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/3e96dc/32.png) [@redtail23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/redtail23)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2009, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/home-rolled-cigarettes/496235/22 "2009-05-13T19:51:03Z")
> [@LouisB](#): > > One of my grandfathers rolled his own with Bull Durham. Is that stuff for sale any more? He rolled his one-handed and he could roll the one-handed behind his back. He taught me how to do it and I rolled my own for years, although I had trouble with the one-handed trick. As mentioned above, getting the right amount of tobacco onto the paper is probably the most important part. Yup, it’s still out there (or at least was last I looked). I remember a guy in college that could somehow set everything up in one hand and roll the cigarette against his leg with a sort of ‘flip - slap - roll’ move. It was amazing. I have had to have a chat with a couple of people I know who still smoke non-tobacco substances. No, you can’t use my roller. No, not just for a minute, not even just once. I’ll give you a paper or three, I’ll give you a filter if you want, but I carry my roller all kinds of places and it ain’t illegal till your stuff touches it. No. OTOH, watching my co-workers freak out when a cop walks thru the restaurant while I’m rolling a smoke is highly entertaining. They all were absolutely sure I was going to get stopped and hassled, if not arrested. Strangely enough, the cop was uninterested in someone calmly rolling from a tobacco pouch in the middle of a busy fast-food joint. ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2009, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/home-rolled-cigarettes/496235/23 "2009-05-14T03:50:27Z")
If you’re getting them too tight, either by hand or with a flat belt roller, try this. Roll it back and forth to get the cylindrical shape right, then loosen your grip. Let it relax a little before the final roll-and-seal. You may have to even unroll it partway, but once the shape is established, you get some leeway for reworking. If you mess up, tear it up and start over. Papers are cheap, and your time learning is well spent. ---
**Author:** ![davek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f19dbf/32.png) [@davek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davek)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2011, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/home-rolled-cigarettes/496235/24 "2011-05-28T21:25:12Z")
:rolleyes: > [@Jamicat](#): > > I was gonna start even growing my own, but it the curing process seemed a lil more complicated for general consumption. > > then there was making the rice paper and cotton for the filters…bah humbug. > > (wish they change edit to 15 min) Instead of curing, you can just age tobacco. The curing chambers you hear about just speed up the process. It should be smokeable in a year easilly and it can be smokeable in a few months if it is in a hot, humid place. Hang it in your attic and try to keep it “in case” (moist enough to be pliable) as much as possible. Hand rolled are shorter than store bought and the draw is not the same so’s many like filters. A cigarette holder works well instead. I’ve given many folks a little piece of reed to use as a cigarette holder and they’ve loved them. Just any short, light cigarette holder works great. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2011, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/home-rolled-cigarettes/496235/25 "2011-05-28T22:21:05Z")
Zombie hand rolls… ---
**Author:** ![DJ\_Motorbike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/90ced4/32.png) [@DJ\_Motorbike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DJ_Motorbike)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2011, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/home-rolled-cigarettes/496235/26 "2011-05-28T22:45:06Z")
I’ve smoked Drum exclusively for well more than a decade now. A bit of orange peel works well to moisten up old dried up tobacco. It does seem to impart some of the flavor. Drum differs from American Spirit and Top and the like by it’s cut which is called [shag](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shag_%28tobacco%29). I also smoke far less than anyone I know who smokes pre-made cigarettes. I can go a week without smoking and not even think about it. I can’t stand regular cigarettes & won’t even touch the things. I think they’re vile. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/home-rolled-cigarettes/496235.md?page=1)