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Nothing better than Drum rolling tobacco.

posted 2 years ago by LogicalLeftist (869)
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I don't want to encourage smoking but I love that shit. ive described it to others as a "well oiled saddlebag". there's so much flavour and aromas it doesn't taste like any rerolled. if im running low and someone offers me their cigarette ill say no and instead drive at 5am in the morning before work 20 minutes away to get it. probably because the flavour but also the dampness of it it burns differently than normal pre rolled cigarettes.

unfortunately cigarette laws where im from meant all packages had to be a generic sickly green.but for some reason they also changed their formula. they used to have a light blue and a far nicer dark Kentucky blend.

[–] tcrum (31596) 2 years ago

Ok....... where's Shogun or Stonekeeper when I need them. I'm out of my depth here.

[–] nyctc7 (43718) 2 years ago

I went through a roll-my-own phase. I tried Top, Bugler, Drum. I liked Top best. But in the end I vastly preferred manufactured cigarettes. I don't smoke anymore.

[–] Quasimodo (16388) 2 years ago

Way back when I smoked I had a little cigarette rolling machine and I used to buy the tobacco ( Port Royal ) papers and filters and make my own filtered cigarettes. Nicer than the mass produced ones although a lot more messing about.

[–] Padeen (6459) 2 years ago

What about Bali Shag? I don't see that stuff around anymore, although I no longer smoke.

[–] Padeen (6459) 2 years ago

Go to a smoke shop and check out the pipe tobacco selection. Most of it is actually rolling tobacco, but is labelled that way for legal reasons. You get A LOT more for the price compared to the little pouches. Most stores will probably have the brand "Good Stuff."

[–] LogicalLeftist (869) 2 years ago

ill check it out thanks for the advice!

[–] MaximRecoil (4645) 2 years ago

The classic unfiltered cigarettes are the best, e.g., Camel, Lucky Strike, Pall Mall. They can't hide poor quality behind a filter.

My favorite filtered cigarettes were Camel Filters in a soft pack until they changed them in 2008, but even those tasted bad if you removed the filter. They definitely weren't original Camels with a filter added; they were something much cheaper.

I've been mostly rolling my own cigarettes since the mid 2000s, and I've been using Signal brand tobacco in the blue bag since about 2009. It's alright. I prefer cigarettes I make with it to any factory cigarettes on the market today (except for the couple remaining classic non-filtered brands), though they are not as good as the old Camel Filters.