Homemade cigarette movement is on a roll

Boston Globe ^ | October 13, 2002 | Bruce Mohl

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I bought two ounces of Dutch tobacco, 200 filter-tipped cigarette tubes, and a German-made device that injects the tobacco into the tubes. It cost me $23.97 for everything, including tax. The fancy injector device was the most expensive item, at $15.95.

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[Half Vast Conspiracy]

Well, there's only one answer then. We MUST tax the machine, the tobacco, matches, lighters, air...

[Mudcat]

Silly socialists... will they never learn to just leave the market alone?

[Georgia_JimD]

http://www.thetobaccoshop.com/RYOIndex.htm

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

Sad. Here in Virginia, it's under a dollar a pack if you get the right brands by the carton. I want something cheaper though. Are there any good deals out there on the web that anyone knows about? I don't smoke. But my mom does. I can't get her to quit [I tried almost everything].

[johnboy]

I can't get her to quit [I tried almost everything].

have you suggested smokeless tobacco? skoal long cut straight for example?

worked for me.

[Caipirabob]

Still Smokin'?

Here's a good idea. Brew your own beer, ferment your own wine, now roll your own smokes. Shut down the tax-grabbers yet again.

Beautiful how in what's left of our "free society" that the market can still find a way.

[BJungNan]

I can't get her to quit...

• A credit-card sized computer that creates a personalized gradual withdrawal program based on individual smoking habits
• Combines advanced computer technology with behavior science principles
• Patented and scientifically proven method to quit smoking
• Over 1.25 million units sold world-wide

One of those 1.25 million units was sold to me and it worked. This is a great system. Here is what is great about it.

1. For the first three days you get to smoke normally. All you have to do is push a button every time you smoke a cig.

2. On the day you are to quit, you wake up in the morning, turn on the little computer thing and it says...Have a cigarette! My kinda program.

3. It then starts to tic down the time and you have a cigarette when it tells you to. For the first three days, that is the same time you would have had one anyhow (remember, you programmed it with your smoking habbits for three days).

4. Then gradully it starts to change your smoking pattern. In my case, less in the morning and actually more than I would have normally smoked in the afternoon (at times even when I did not really want a cig).

5. Finally, the time stretches out between cigs. Eventually, it got to the point that I got dizzy off them like the first time I smoked - Time to quit and I did.

I don't sell the thing. But it is really the darn easiest way to quit and actually kind of fun. Link Here for the web page

[Lloyd227]

Comparing prices on my preferred tobacco "American Spirit", I found Esmokes.com about 60% of the price at Randy's tobacco shop. esmokes has a nice website with automatic order functionality, set it up once and your regular order shows up on your doorstep. Been using them about six months now with no issues at all.

Still checking prices when someone posts another link though! :-)

[bluecollarman]

Whoever takes this tip will become richer.... I do not have the time, organization or money to pull it off but it will work.

Just like people used to go to the mill to make flour, build a small cigarette co-op. Sell the tobacco and supplies in bulk.

Teach the customers how to operate the machines to manufacture the cigarettes.

There is a process where the tobacco has to be flattened into sheets and you will need to sell your tobacco that way.

Charge a fee for Joining the co-op, taking the class, time on the machine, and raw materials.

No laws prevent this that I know of, no tax, no liability except injury while running the machines.

The last time I checked you can produce them for about .28 a pack. In one hour you can produce yourself a years supply of smokes packed and wrapped.

Oh...please send me money for this idea cause I'm just an idea man. No orginazational skills at all.

[southernnorthcarolina]

It cost me $23.97 for everything, including tax.

But maybe not so great a bargain when you start adding up the other costs. The antibiotics for that chronic upper respiratory infection. The unscheduled physical to see what's wrong. The x-rays. The biopsy. The radiation treatment. The chemo. The wig for when your hair falls out. The new wardrobe for the new, 30-pounds-lighter you. The loss in your job productivity because you're so tired. The gas and time spent seeking alternative treatments. The fees for getting your will updated, and your affairs in order. The 24-hour nursing care those last few weeks. The plane tickets so your loved ones can say goodbye. The funeral home costs. The burial plot. The casket. The granite tombstone, engraved with dates that are too close together.

This moron is bragging about how much money he's saving on a habit which will kill him. The ultimate case of being penny-wise and pound-foolish.

[bluecollarman]

"The fees for getting your will updated, and your affairs in order. The 24-hour nursing care those last few weeks. The plane tickets so your loved ones can say goodbye. The funeral home costs. The burial plot. The casket. The granite tombstone, engraved with dates that are too close together."

Hey genius, if he never smokes another cigarette he won't die someday? How do these costs apply to smoking? He is going to have all of the above his last days if he is lucky.

[CIB-173RDABN]

This moron is bragging about how much money he's saving on a habit which will kill him.

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Opps! If I read the story correctly, he states he does not smoke. Buying the stuff was research for the article.

[sistergoldenhair]

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[Eric in the Ozarks]

I have to agree. I quit cold turkey in March, 1986 and haven't smoked a single cigatette since. Prior to this event, I smoked red Winstons, then Winston Lights in a gold package, then Winston Ultra Lights, that had so many air perforations I was mostly drawing air in anyway.
The day before my last cigatette, I had been out seeing customers and had gotten home late and went to bed. I awoke at around 1 am, coughing from too many smokes. So, naturally, I got up and looked for my shirt with cigarettes in the pocket. Found the pack with just two left. I decided if I smoked one right then and the last one when I got up, I would try to hold out as long as possible. I think this promise to myself was like self-hypnosis; the next morning, I smoked my last one (and didn't tell anybody what I was up to, to avoid the "how're you doing without the cigs" routine). It was three months before anyone noticed I was cigarette free, and, by then, it was no big deal, and my friends offered words of encouragement, not challenges on if I could keep it up.
I think it took a full five years before I quit reaching for my cigarette pack, tho. and I had to make some changes in other habits (bars after work were out--too many smokers). But that's how I whipped the habit.

[facedown]

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[SheLion]

Wow! Thanks for the ping!! Let me read!

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Smokers United

[SheLion]

When cigarette taxes in my state put a carton up to $44-$50 dollars a carton, we said that's it! We went to our local Smoke Shop over a year ago. Purchased the beautiful cigarette machine over the Internet, and I have been rolling great cigarettes ever since.

From $44-$50 a carton down to just under $8.00 a carton. We haven't looked back! The savings is remarkable and we can still enjoy our favorite passtime of smoking without going broke.

Smoke Cheap! It's your Civic Duty!

[SheLion]

PS: For the ladies: I went to Ebay, did a search on Cigarette Cases, and found a guy who sells hard plastic in all colors to match all my outfits!

Very reasonable and no more unsightly "Warnings!" I am an adult. I KNOW the warnings! heh!

For those of you living and smoking in Canada, you can purchase these cases and not have to look at those gross pictures anymore, as well. Where there is a will there is a WAY!