roll your own as a kid

[chero]

any one remember as a kid when you tried to roll your own cig. we rolled weeds to dried tobacco hanging in the barn. man i want to tell you, we were high on the mountain some times and dizzy. might of been the paper that we had to roll with.

 

[yoru]

I always just rolled cigs from pretty much the day I decided I wanted to try one, at least that's how I remember it. Though my first cig was actually an unfiltered Camel pilfered from my old man.
But yeah, apart from the one time when I was about 12 and I decided to write on a cigarette before smoking it (well, I doodled on one and kinda just forgot until I lit it anyhow) I didn't have any bad experiments really, though that one was pretty bad.

 

[cortezattic]

My grandpa could roll a cigarette with that bone-dry Bull Durham that came in a canvas sack.

It had a draw string he would tug closed with his teeth. His results were quite nice despite

using the plain (un-gummed) paper that came with the tobacco. He managed all this while

listing to and fro from an excess of vodka. For him the hardest part was getting the match

flame to the tip of the cigarette. :lol:

 

[fatman]

I think a pack of smokes were like 23 cents a pack..OUTRAGOUS!! Then came out a contraption machine type thing which one could roll a cig easily..much more cost effective. Then came free smokes in C-Rations!
EDIT: It just hit me..LARADO rol yer own!

 

[lonestar]

Seems like someone always came up with a cigarette from somewhere, when we were kids. It was mostly that the neighbors kept a basket on the counter with about 12 cartons of cigarettes at a time in it!

I have heard stories though, of people smoking cornsilk and willow bark as kids, but I dont recall ever trying it myself.

 

[igloo]

Red ceadar bark and notebook paper .

 

[kf5eqv]

When I was staying at a friends dorm back in '99 we got so hard up for tobacco once we went out and walked the campus, picking up every butt we found. We broke them all open into a tray back at his dorm and then rolled the old tobacco mixture up with cheap zig-zags. Nasty stuff, but we were young and full of stupid.
Being an outdoorsy kinda guy, I've also smoked Acorns. I know it sounds weird, but it was actually a very good smoke and had a very calming effect to the smoke. Now that I think of it, it was probably one of the best smokes I've had. (I should note, this was out of a clay "peace-pipe")

 

[lonestar]

I'd like to know how much trouble Igloo went through to obtain fresh supplies of red cedar bark as a kid. No doubt passed hundreds of tobacco shops on his way to the cedar forest.

 

[igloo]

Well my dad retired in Junction Tx no shortage of cedar there . And at last check no tobacco shops . We also used to dry out Brown Mule or Hard Days Work and smoke that too .

 

[ichbinmuede]

Before I quit (haha only three weeks ago now) I'd occasionally get myself a package of Drum and roll them up. Haha I recall when I was in high school (well hardly ever actually IN) me and a friend were up very late one night without much to do and decided to learn to roll. We were up all night with many failed attempts at a decent cigarette but we did learn and get quite good.

 

[lonestar]

Igloo, I didn't know you meant the plain old common west tex stuff.

I figured you would only be smoking the finest 1200 year old west coast cedar.

 

[maduroman]

ahhhh, west texas cedar, fit only for fire barrels n bonfires...

 

[bowhatchie]

From grapevine to corn silk.. I tried it all...Had a hand on the farm that would "slip" me some of his Velvet and I would smoke that when I was a kid...

 

[colorduke]

Smoked alot of bugler,top,true blue,plow boy what ever we could get we smoked,corn silk wasn't even that bad.

 

[scott306]

I remember when I first started smoking cigs. Boy was I dumb. We would roll anything from pine needles to weed to leaves and everything in between.Dumb? Yes. Funny? Dunno But sure is now! lol Crazy the things you will do as a kid.

Happy smoking! ::

 

[igloo]

ahhhh, west texas cedar, fit only for fire barrels n bonfires... furniture polish ,high grade plywood ,non rotting fence posts , anti well circulation products and home made cigs for a young boy .lol

 

[jimbo]

West Texas "cedar" is not cedar at all but Juniper. It's got a nice smell for decorating the home at Christmas. True cedar is more of a real tree than scrubby juniper bushes. White cedar is what is used in expensive humidors and wrapping some cigars. Red cedar is the more aromatic stuff used to line cedar chests and closets.
As for rolling your own, I was never much of a roller. I experimented with various rolling "machines" just for the novelty of it. Years ago, whenever the price of his Chesterfields went up a nickel, my dad protested by bringing out the Duke's Mixture, the main competitor of Bull Durham, in the little cloth sack. It wasn't long before he got tired of rolling, bit the bullet and went back to Chesterfields, finally returning to the pipe for good (which he had smoked years before). ::

 

[jayhp]

as a kid, I grew up raising burley.We would snatch a few bundles,clean it,put it in a fresh hollowed out cherry limb.We would add molasses and maybe a apple slice or 2. Seal that up with string and wax.we usually aged it 6 months, but sometimes we would find a log that hid for years.We made corn cob pipes with bamboo stems..But the good part, besides the great flavor, was We never got caught by our parents or grandparents.

 

[pipetrucker]

Yep, as a kid we were fond of rolling up lemon leaves in paper torn from brown paper sacks.

 

[colorduke]

Paperbags that just brought back some old memories,i use to help a farmer out in the summer he would grow veggies for the one supermarket chain.One day we all ran out of cigs and the dam bugs were super bad we took a old brown bag outta the truck and tore it in stripes and stuffed it with old dead leaves and tried smoking it.Its a wonder were even alive after that.