New Yorkers: Make your own cigarettes for less than $10 a pack.
About a year ago I bought and reviewed the "Premier Supermatic II" cigarette injector. While New Yorkers are now contending with $10-a-pack cigarette prices, I'm still comfortable making my own — complete with filter — for around $3 a pack, even counting shipping from the RYO store.The Supermatic isn’t a cigarette rolling machine but instead an “injector.” Fill its tobacco hopper, mount a “slug” (an empty paper tube with a filter inside; a cigarette without the tobacco), and turn the crank. The first part of the turn compresses the tobacco and snips off any errant bits, while the follow through shoves the tobacco into the tube. The machine also has a rubber nub that grabs the tip of the slug to prevent it from being dislodged when the tobacco, guided by a serrated ovipositor, is injected inside with a spring-loaded clang.Yes, I know it's deadly. My body testifies.
Review: Premier Supermatic II Cigarette Injector [Dethroner]
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I just quit smoking (2 packs/day) 6 months ago, but every time I see a cool product like this I almost want to start smoking cigarettes again. We had one of these machines in the tobacco shop I worked in twenty years ago, and it was a marvel.
Add some cloves while you're at it! Mmmmm... pop pop!
I hear they're also working on a gadget that enables emphysema sufferers to fill their own oxygen bottles! So cool!
LOL
same concept but MUCH cheaper: http://www.everyonedoesit.co.uk/online_headshop/Zig_Zag_Gun__Cigarette_Tube_Filling_Machine.cfm?iProductID=310
these things work great, but nothing beats just hand rolling ;)
I'm all for "hand rolling". But only when unobserved. Clear your cache afterward.
#5 -- i used to have a machine very similar to that one and it didn't work well at all. it would rip the tubes and took a lot of time and more care than i was capable of. i might have to try the crank one, though. it looks like a better design.
good to see that there is only one preachy post so far....
this is def. the way to go if you want filters, the investments worth it. the best readily available tobacco i've found so far is the seemingly neverending 10oz tins of amsterdam shag by peter stokkebye (seriously, $20 for a month of delicious tobacco). though whenever i'm in NY i just have to buy some nat shermans.
I had one of the Zig-Zag machines for awhile, they're alright, but it's a time-consuming process to roll even enough cigarettes to fill a cigarette case. Take the time to learn to hand-roll. Ultimately it's faster and you look much cooler. I gotta tell ya, though, for a nicotine delivery medium nothing beats Swedish Snus.
I'll second the hand-rolling recommendation, as well as the stokkebye one (Norwegian shag FTW--a 10oz tin is $23 and lasts me 6 months, while still being fantastic quality). Hand-rolling quality tobacco at time of smoking is arguably a much better strategy than using such a machine to pre-roll into a pack. Good rolling tobacco is more moist than factory stuff, so you need to be careful not to let it clump, which ruins a cigarette. Hand rolling allows for much finer control of the finished product, producing way better cigs. What's more, rolling becomes a fun part of the ritual, and also makes it more time-consuming to smoke, which has a nice self-limiting quality(although after a while the time it takes becomes negligible). It's also a good conversation starter, as people always wonder what you're doing. Unfortunately, after 6 5 years of this I am an elitist, and cannot stand to smoke a factory cigarette unless extremely desperate.
The best cigarette tobacco is no longer made and sold here, Three Castles. Peter Stokkebye's Danish Export tobacco and Club papers (with no glue) is my poison. Actually, it is not hard to toss a filter in a hand rolled smoke. The quality of this tobacco and the papers make the best tasting cigarette! Store bought, factory made smokes taste terrible after making your own from great tobacco. The cost works out to about a week's smoking for less than the cost a a pack.
The only problems that I've had are some places where papers are illegal paraphernalia like some islands in the Caribbean and people grimacing and moving upwind because of the smell.
Don't smoke, stay healthy, get an extra couple of years in the nursing home.
I've never smoked, outside of a brief little-cigar phase in college, but I do get a bit envious whenever I read bits like this that include phrases like "a serrated ovipositor".
Hey #11 STEVEW - 3 Castles isn't the best, it's "The Beft"!!!
And even better for you an I, it is actually available again - google it, yo. It's my favorite!