Rollin' means different things depending on who you are. For some it means driving, or moving, and for others it means making a cigarette that contains tobacco or some other substance with the intention to smoke it. There may be other meanings in this urban-slang-loaded world in which we live but I can't be bothered thinking about them right now because I don't care.
So, in the image above you can see the items required to roll a cigarette: Tobacco, cigarette papers, and filters. The filters are optional I guess. The other thing, the silver tin...Well, that's what this post is about.
It's a cigarette-maker. I'm not sure how old it is but I found it in an antique store so I assume it's pretty old. It certainly looks very old. My wife and I bought it for her aunty who smokes because she wants to die early. We figured, considering her passion for an early grave, we would help her along with this handy little piece of kit. We'd rather she quits but she won't.
How it works
First you put your tobacco in the green fabric area and tamp it down after spreading it evenly. The image below shows the green fabric which is what rolls the cigarette when the box is closed and the area where tobacco can be stored in between cancer stick-making.
Then the filter is added to the end and also pressed down in place. The pressing and tamping ensures the cigarette is even and doesn't look like a doobie.
The cigarette paper is licked on one long edge then inserted into place above the tobacco/filter combination as in the image below.
The box is pulled closed and out pops a cigarette rolled and ready to smoke. It's a pretty quick process which is good because have you ever seen a person craving a cigarette? Not pretty right?
Below is a little clip showing the cigarette maker in use. I have sped it up because Faith's aunty who was demonstrating the cigarette roller for my video was nervous and messed it all up. I have no idea why considering she smokes 30 a day and you'd think she'd be at ninja-level at rollin'. This video took three takes! That's all good though as she had three cigarette's made up and ready to smoke! Early grave here she comes!
This is a pretty nifty little thing to be honest and I wonder who came up with the idea. It's simple in its brilliance and makes the task of rolling cancer sticks so pleasurable. If you are a smoker and roll your own rather than pay for tailor-made's then you should get on it as it will save so much of your time and as a smoker time is something that's at a premium for you.
Just for the record, I'm not a smoker but don't care if people smoke as that's their prerogative, and the world is over-populated anyway. I hate getting a smell of it when a smoker is near though. I also hate seeing asshole-smokers flick their butts onto the street as if it's ok for them to discard their filth with impunity. It would be good if they didn't do that.
What I love about smokers is that they generate revenue for the government through government tobacco excise which I don't have to pay as a non-smoker. Score! By 2020 a packet of cigarette's will cost some $40 in Australia. So awesome! Thanks for injecting $8 Billion per year into the economy smokers. So nice of you. A smoker who smokes 5 packets a week will spend $10,400 a year for cancer sticks...
By the way in case you're wondering, $8 billion dollars is $21,917,808 per day over a year! Not chump change huh? Twenty one million nine hundred and seventeen thousand, eight hundred and eight dollars a day of revenue to the economy! 😂 😂
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I think the same as you regards smokers. I have never smoked in my life I watched my grandad die of throut cancer from smoking when I was a young boy. And said at the time I will never smoke.
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I understand that it's addictive and all however I really don't understand how people continue to smoke knowing the health risk. It their choice of course however I wonder what goes through their mind when deciding to continue. Anyway, at least they're parting with their money and spreading it around I guess. Someone wins, if not the smoker.
I'd rather spend my $10,400 a year on something else...Silver, steem, holidays, superannuation, 4x4 accessories, guns, gifts for my wife...Hell, just about anything else but smoking. I've never smoked thankfully. 😁
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Yes me to haha. I have had people I work with ask how I can afford to do certain things being on the same wage as them. I say I don't smoke and hardly ever drink. Then ask them how much they spend a week on alcohol and smokes and go there's your answer then😂
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Seems so logical right? I've had the same sort of conversations. People whining about me going to Europe again or buying another car or just doing interesting stuff the weekend and whining that they can't afford to do so themselves. The solution seems so simple...Don't spend $10,000 a year on cigarettes and $5,000 on plonk...Or do so and shut the hell up about not being able to do anything else through lack of funds.
Yes it is very logical for us anyway lol.
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5 packs a day is way extreme. But this sort of logic in general seems a tad faulty to me, because a lot of non-smokers say that if you didn't smoke, you'd have X money....but they don't smoke, so where's the fucking money? Some are smart enough to save up, but most just waste it on other useless shit.
I don't smoke and I don't really like it, but just a thought.
I meant week obviously...Will amend it.
Think of all the Steem you can get with that! Amazing! Addictions are truly nasty!
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Yeah I know right? Makes little sense I think.
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I just went cold turkey and quit three months ago. It was too expensive to continue.
Well done...Did you find it difficult?
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