[sarcasm]

ping

[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].

[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.

[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.

[sistergoldenhair]

ping

[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!

[Psycho_Bunny]

Three Castles.

God, it's good.

[Great Dane]

'Not really,'' Kelley said. ''We're still dying.'

News flash....... so are all the non-smokers.

[redheadtoo]

My grandfather had a friend from college who would roll his own cigarettes. He never used any fancy machine, he just kept paper and a pouch of tabacco with him and rolled one whenever he wanted to smoke. Eventually he had to give up the practice while he was in public places. To many people assumed that this nearly ninety year old man was rolling a joint.

On another note my aunt went to New York City to visit her family. She discovered that her sister had started smoking tiny cigars rather than cigarettes. The New Yorkers, in their liberal wisdom, had placed a huge sales tax on cigarettes but not on cigars. To get around the tax, smokers began to purchase itty bitty cigars not much bigger than a cigarette.

[Bella_Bru]

Roll, roll, roll your own!

[A. Pole]

They said my cigarettes smoked much like a manufactured cigarette but tasted much better, probably because the tobacco I used contained no chemicals or additives.

So those cigarettes are probably much healthier. Hey, maybe this is the real purpose for the tax?

[pepsionice]

This is the most popular thing in Germany today. The tax for a pack is easily $3-4. I would guess that the politicians will eventually figure this out....but an awful lot of folks are figuring out that you can grow your own tobacco...same as grass...and dry the leaves...and make your pack for less than a quarter. I bet that the tax idiots will tax sales out the front door...and people switch over within 15-20 years to growing their own stuff. When they loss all of the tax revenues....they will wake up....and have to tax something else, like toilet paper or tampons....but hey, this is the American way...beat the system.

[Tench_Coxe]

Well, looks like a law will have to be passed to which none may purchase any cigarette making supplies without the proper stamp affixed that notes that the tax has been paid.....oh, wait a second, that trick was tried before over 200 years ago. Ironic that Massachussetts would be the place where we could see this tried again. In the spirit of things, perhaps they should elect an Attorney General with the last name of Gage.

[gcruse]

Does that mean she and others who make their
own cigarettes are now getting the last laugh?

''Not really,'' Kelley said. ''We're still dying.''

Easily the laugh line of the day.

[Rainbow Rising]

This article brings back memories. As a child I spent most of my summers on my uncle's farm in Newfoundland. He used to make his own cigarettes using one of those devices. Every night after dinner he'd spread brown paper over the kitchen table, then he'd take out his tin of tobacco, his cigarette tubes and his little tobacco injector. Then he'd spend about 30 minutes making his own cigarettes. Every move was precise. He never wasted one shred of tobacco. He even used a pair of tweezers to pluck out any excess tobacco that might be sticking out of the cigarettes. He'd make a pack, maybe two before the daylight failed. Then he'd sweep any leftover tobacco off the brown paper back into the tin and put everything away until the next night. I was fascinated by this ritual, and it wasn't until I was a little older that I understood why he did what he did. The reason, of course, was the outrageous price of cigarettes in Canada.

[television is just wrong]

If i smoked, i’d do that too.