Today we’ll be talking about rolling your own cigarettes, a process that can save you some serious money as well as open up a wide range of options in flavor and tobacco quality.
I’ve been trying to teach myself how to roll without any tools at all—just my fingers, a pinch of tobacco, and some papers—but [...]

The Magic 25 mini cigarette filters are strange devices, purporting to “reduce tar and nicotine up to 76%.” Each reusable filter attaches to the end of your cigarette, presumably serving a similar purpose to standard filters on cigarettes, which would lead me to believe that a smoker would be better off just buying more heavily-filtered [...]

There are whole web sites dedicated to marijuana etiquette, but they tend to focus on the behavior of pot smokers in the company of other pot smokers. Not so here today: Let’s talk about marijuana etiquette out in the real world.
First of all, you should always remember that in the United States, marijuana is illegal. [...]

In a 1999 study at the National Institutes of Health rats who were given a moderate amount of caffeine in their drinking water self-administered nicotine more rapidly than their decaffeinated fellows. And I mean, come on—go to any Denny’s or self-respecting truck stop and see for yourself. Drinking coffee may not lead to smoking cigarettes, [...]

These notes are really more for my own benefit than anything, but I thought I’d put them up for all to see anyway.
8:44 AM - First cigarette of the day, enjoyed while standing on my balcony sipping my second cup of coffee. My head swims slightly as the nicotine works in conjunction with the caffeine [...]

Quitting smoking is capital-h Hard, at least for several weeks and sometimes months after you initially throw out the cancer sticks. The intensity of the unpleasantness varies from person to person, and even from quit attempt to quit attempt, but in general it is never easy. As of today I haven’t smoked or had any [...]

Cigarettes are heavily taxed, especially in Dethroner’s state of operation, New York. Many New Yorkers try to get around buying cigarettes in retail—where prices can reach over $8-a-pack—by buying online, despite a continuing crackdown by state and federal government in conjunction with termination of payment processing from credit card companies.
Native American cigarette shops claim the [...]

By John Brownlee
The only reason any one takes on a ridiculous, anachronistic affectation is to get chicks. Or boychiks, if you swing that way. Which I don’t, but please don’t tell the many effervescent queers trolling the byways of Yahoo member pages, looking for fellow “pipe smokers.” We won’t be sharing a peace pipe any [...]

Clove cigarettes are a mixture of about 70% tobacco and 30% clove, the very same cooking spice used for ciders and hams. In addition to the nicotine from the tobacco, the cloves release a chemical called eugenol that can “numb the throat and impair the gag reflex,” misleading some to presume that clove cigarettes are [...]

As we are discovering with alarming regularity, this question has already been addressed by the indomitable Cecil of “The Straight Dope” fame. Let’s excerpt him, not only to steal his effort, but to cough up this bit of trivial cigarette effluvia:
Federal revenooers recognize two kinds of cigarettes: small cigarettes (class A), which weigh up to [...]

Although smokers try to keep a lighter handy, we’ve all experienced the dreaded occasion of standing in the windy outdoors, trying to light our cigarette with a meager paper match. Last time it happened to me was in San Francisco, standing on the street after beers, where admitted casual smoker Evan Hansen showed me this [...]

Smoke has been the symbol of humanity’s conquest over nature since first we discovered fire. Various herbs like belladonna and sage were smoked in pipes to affect the mind or in censors to affect mood, but after its discovery over 2,000 years ago in Central America, tobacco has come to be the predominate plant put [...]