Mulling Things Over

Here’s an overdue update to my post about rolling your own smokes. After about six months of using the Supermatic II cigarette-stuffing machine, it was getting more and more balky. It would jam frequently, and wouldn’t quite stuff the full length of cigarettes, requiring a lot of tapping to pack the tobacco down to the [...]

Making your own cigarettes can be done by hand-rolling. If you grew up in the sixties or seventies, you should have at least a passing familiarity with this activity, albeit not with cigarette tobacco. However, most people who make their own cigs nowadays use an injection machine, and the process is one of injecting tobacco [...]