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Well, last Sunday, after deliberating much on the subject, and curtailing our smoking considerably, we decided to invest in the necessary equipment to roll our own. We had met some folks who had claimed good success with it, so we took the plunge. The initial kit we bought (200 tubes, tobacco and a machine) from ZigZag for a mere $17 (about half the price of a name brand carton of cigarettes in Indiana right now) proved that it could be done, and to quite a tasty result, too, but the machine proved unwieldy to say the least.

By Tuesday morning it had frustrated us so badly that Kris picked up a pack of "real" smokes on her way into work, 'cause we'd not been able to roll enough to get her through the day.

Tuesday is my egg route day, and one of my stops is at Low Bob's Tobacco. They had a display of the machine shown here. It was $50, but thanks to the display I could "try before you buy", and I was sold. It was as easy to operate as the other machine was difficult. It makes tasty cigarettes that look just as good as commercially produced ones and actually smoke better. And a carton of cigarettes will henceforth cost us a mere $10 again - $8 for the tobacco and $2 for the tubes.

Because the tobacco is actually packed tight into the cigarette, they don't fall apart very readily as do some brands, and because the tobacco has fewer (if any) additives to keep it burning, they actually last longer. The end result being: we smoke less.

For us, anyway, rolling yer own is a winner all the way around.

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