Tobacco or Cigarettes

Hurricane-Dean

Switched to rolling tobacco over a year ago and I have to say I prefer them to cigarettes. There is the obvious draw back of being on a night out and having to pre-roll, but if some one asks for a smoke and I say I have rollies 9/10 times I get "ah it's grand" .

There are some advantages as I don't smoke as much especially if I am too lazy to roll any :pac: and they cost half the price and last twice as long (well for me anyway). So what is your choice?

seanybiker

Carroll's fooking rule.

hondasam

Cigarettes, no patience for rolling my own.

Hurricane-Dean

Cigarettes

hondasam wrote: »

Cigarettes, no patience for rolling my own.

I was the same but when you get in the zone you have loads rolled

hondasam

Hurricane-Dean wrote: »

I was the same but when you get in the zone you have loads rolled

Looking for a lighter can drive me nuts sometimes, on that note cig break.

Hurricane-Dean

Cigarettes

hondasam wrote: »

Looking for a lighter can drive me nuts sometimes, on that note cig break.

I'm rolling as I'm typing

Esel

Cigarettes

E-cigarettes are the way forward. You can 'roll' your own juice/flavours too....

Temptamperu

Benson & Hedges FTW :cool:

Rothmans

Cigarettes

I'm the same as you OP.
As the user name suggets, I used to smoke Rothmans, but switched to rollies fulltime about a year and a half ago.
Old Holborn all the way.

padz

Cigarettes

tobacco for a good niQUITineen smoke but ciggs for the chemical rush wit a few beers at the wkend

later12

Cigarettes

Smoke a pipe. Cheap enough and it helps you solve murder mysteries.

Lapin

My mate took up the rollies about year ago.

Took him about 2 mothhs to get used to them.

Once he did, he said he'd never smoke a regular tipped ciggie again.

I smoke B&H and now he won't take one off me when I offer him one of mine.

(I'm feckin delighted)

However he reckons he saves about €30 a week by switching to rolled baccy.

Rothmans

Cigarettes

Hurricane-Dean wrote: »

I'm rolling as I'm typing

Thats a great idea.
But trying to sneak out of the house,without waking anyone up, to smoke it at this hour could be tricky for me :P

RichieC

Cigarettes

hondasam wrote: »

Cigarettes, no patience for rolling my own.

patience will save you a fortune.

Saila

Hurricane-Dean wrote: »

Switched to rolling tobacco over a year ago and I have to say I prefer them to cigarettes. There is the obvious draw back of being on a night out and having to pre-rol

some would say drag

x PyRo

Cigarettes

Switched to rolling tobacco a couple of years ago. They're much nicer than cigarettes IMO and I get way more than 20 smokes out of a 12.5g bag.

Cutters Choice FTW!

Ghandee

SNIP:

Sorry Ghandee. Your comment was OK in After Hours but in the Smoking fourm we have a policy not to discuss that topic. I deleted the reference when the thread got moved over to here.
OldGoat.

mackg

Hurricane-Dean wrote: »

Switched to rolling tobacco over a year ago and I have to say I prefer them to cigarettes. There is the obvious draw back of being on a night out and having to pre-roll, but if some one asks for a smoke and I say I have rollies 9/10 times I get "ah it's grand" .

There are some advantages as I don't smoke as much especially if I am too lazy to roll any :pac: and they cost half the price and last twice as long (well for me anyway). So what is your choice?

Don't forget when out in the smoking area and you pull out a bag of tobacco someone is almost guaranteed to interject with "ah no man have a cigarette";)

I smoke Golden Virginia the most of the time but occasionally splash out on a pack of John Player.

Cú Giobach

Cigarettes

Been rolling for 20 years now and can't stand the taste or smell of "straights", would only smoke one in total desperation.
You don't get that morning mouth dryness with them and haven't had a cough since 1991.
DRUM FTW.

mackg wrote: »

Don't forget when out in the smoking area and you pull out a bag of tobacco someone is almost guaranteed to interject with "ah no man have a cigarette";)

People saying "Here, have a real one" while holding out a pack of "chemical tubes" while I am preparing a few untainted tobacco leaves for smoking always makes me smile.

mackg

Cigarettes

mackg wrote: »

I smoke Golden Virginia the most of the time but occasionally splash out on a pack of John Player.

Jesus.. what a difference in strength!

I always found golden virgina sooo weak.. and then player are so strong!

But me, I smoke amber leaf.. I used to smoke b&h's until maybe a year ago..
Now if someone offered one to me, i'd definately refuse.

Tobacco is so much nicer. I find the smell and taste of cigarettes now repulsive.

Celly Smunt

Deleted User wrote: »

Jesus.. what a difference in strength!

I always found golden virgina sooo weak.. and then player are so strong!

But me, I smoke amber leaf.. I used to smoke b&h's until maybe a year ago..
Now if someone offered one to me, i'd definately refuse.

Tobacco is so much nicer. I find the smell and taste of cigarettes now repulsive.

do you not find that amber leaf has a cherry twang to it or something? it's rank,same with B&H :pac:

Thatnastyboy

Cigarettes

Amber Leaf for the win.

I got 5x 50g pouches a while ago for 18 quid, absolute money saver.

I don't smoke that much so they keep me going, but Im awful for leaving down my pouches when im out in smoking areas etc so i have a few left over 12.5g pouches that i bring on the beer with me.

biko

After Hours -> Smoking

animan

pmcmahon wrote: »

do you not find that amber leaf has a cherry twang to it or something? it's rank,same with B&H :pac:

Hate amber leaf's aftertaste. Samson or camel rolling tobacco are the best imo

Cú Giobach

Cigarettes

Thatnastyboy wrote: »

I don't smoke that much so they keep me going, but Im awful for leaving down my pouches when im out in smoking areas etc so i have a few left over 12.5g pouches that i bring on the beer with me.

Good idea.
I always buy a 12.5g for a night out, loosing the 50g is "slightly" annoying.

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Laisurg

Switched to rolling tobacco about a year ago, literally half the price of normal cigarettes but i do prefer the taste of normal smokes.
Almost completely given up now though so doesn't make much of a difference though :pac:

Rothmans

Cigarettes

Deleted User wrote: »

Jesus.. what a difference in strength!

I always found golden virgina sooo weak.. and then player are so strong!

But me, I smoke amber leaf.. I used to smoke b&h's until maybe a year ago..
Now if someone offered one to me, i'd definately refuse.

Tobacco is so much nicer. I find the smell and taste of cigarettes now repulsive.

I've always found rollings tobaccos to be generally stronger than the strongest of cigarettes, well Old holborn and Samson anyway. you could be right about GV though.

animan wrote: »

Hate amber leaf's aftertaste. Samson or camel rolling tobacco are the best imo

Samson is one of the better rolling tobaccos IMO. Not mad about Camel though.

I find that GV, Amber Leaf, Drum, Cutters Choice etc seem to be, more or less, the standard brands that pretty much every shop has. But they're some weak-ass tobaccos. I'd say only a minority of shops in Dublin stock Samson or Holborn or Camel. But if they don't sell the tobacco I want I'll just move onto the next shop. If I'm spending €9 on a pouch of tobbacco, I'm going to make sure its the right one!

Rothmans

Cigarettes

Laisurg wrote: »

Switched to rolling tobacco about a year ago, literally half the price of normal cigarettes but i do prefer the taste of normal smokes.

This will change with time.

mackg

Another plus of rollies is you can choose how much tobacco to put in. If you are in a rush you can just make a small one instead of horsing a full cigarette or throwing half it away, Once you get used to rolling the time it takes to make the cigarette becomes fairly insignificant.