It happens that you run around during the day, spin up and forget to buy cigarettes. At times, their lack can be taken by surprise. Of course, you can tolerate it until the morning, but if it is unbearable, and in a house somewhere on the cupboard a pack of tobacco was lying on a rainy day, you can make yourself a cigarette from a regular newspaper. It is about how to make a cigarette from a newspaper that will be discussed in our material.
A little more about cigarette rolls
In the days following the collapse of the USSR, the country was mired in an abyss of chaos. This was reflected in the tobacco industry. It was impossible to find cigarettes during the day with fire, and if they were sold at some retail outlets, then only at frantic prices.
What kind of tobacco for smokers smokers used at that time? It got to the point that enterprising grannies gathered "bull-calves" in the streets, that is, cigarette butts, and sold them in the corners with glasses. Well, a simple layman bought "bulls", gutted them and did a roll.
But now a new generation has grown up, which has also been touched by the hand of tobacco dependence, and some of them are unaware of how this is done. Someone, for example, decided not to smoke any rubbish, but stocked up with cigarette paper in a specialty store and switched to smoking cigarettes from the purest branded tobacco. For connoisseurs of taste, we will tell you how to make a self-roll from a newspaper with your own hands, without resorting to any tools and adhesives.
Getting started
To make a cigarette, we need a newspaper, tobacco and saliva, which is always abundant in our mouths. Specialty cigarette paper is sold in stores, but if it is not at hand, you can, as during the Great Patriotic War, get along with regular newspapers. The manufacturing process is as follows:
- We get the tobacco, and if there is no purchase, we extract it from the butts. When the slide becomes impressive, you can proceed to the next stage.
- We tear off from the newspaper an even strip of such a width that it is bent along in half, it is slightly larger than the width of an ordinary cigarette. Do not forget that three millimeters of this width will still go to the bend, with which the self-roll will stick together with an overlap.
- It can be any length, but it is better not to spoil the lungs and not to smoke excessively long roll-ups. In addition, a long one will be more difficult to glue than a short one.
- We bend the strip - the basis for the self-roll - along, take its edge with three fingers (the large and the middle are located below, the index one on top) and lay the tobacco we extracted from cigarette butts along the entire length of the paper blank. We distribute it evenly so that the self-roll, firstly, is filled with quality tobacco, and, secondly, it was easier to glue. The tubercles and irregularities of the “filling” will in every way prevent this.
- Now we also take three fingers on the opposite edge of the future self-roll and, pressing the index fingers with our fingers, we begin to curl it with the thumb. We wet the far edge of the newspaper with our own saliva along its entire length.
- When the newspaper absorbs saliva well, we press it to the front edge. Press lightly and hold for a while. So that tobacco does not spill out of the cigarette, its edges need to be slightly crushed. Everything, our cigarette roll is ready.
Filter self-roll
Many will wonder, but how to make a newspaper roll with a filter? So that he filters out at least a certain number of poisons. Yes, indeed, some people prefer to insert a filter into their cigarette roll. To do this, you need to gut the filter of one of the butts, removing the outer shell from it. Take the inside of the filter itself and insert it from one end of the self-roll. If the dimensions are met by standards, the filter will not even fall out. Voila! Self-roll filter is ready. Anyone interested can see the next video.
Twist the goat’s leg
"Goat's leg" is one of the varieties of cigarette rolls that do not need to be glued together. But at the same time, it is more harmful, because along with tobacco, the smoker draws in itself also substances from the burning of the paper itself, which in the “goat leg” is more than in an ordinary cigarette roll.
In the inner part of the self-roll, there remains only that edge to which we glue the upper edge of the newspaper base. In the "goat leg" overlap is much larger. How to make a goat leg from a newspaper?
- We tear off a piece in the form of an elongated quadrangle from the newspaper.
- We take the right and forefinger for one of the corners and begin to roll the paper around them, making a small oblong fist.
- To make the fist more dense, slightly extend the edge sandwiched between the fingers.
- We bend the resulting fist at the base of its thin part. Now the “goat leg” will not turn around, and the tobacco will not get into the mouth when puffed.
- We stuff a wide bell to the place of bending with tobacco. The Goat Leg is ready.
We see that there is more paper in the inside of such a cigarette, which means it carries more harm.
A few words about the harmfulness of the newspaper
Anyone who is interested in how to make a cigarette from a newspaper, first of all should know about its harm. Even a cigarette with the purest tobacco can cause irreparable harm to the body. And in view of the fact that in this case an ordinary newspaper acts as a paper for cigarette rolls, the harm becomes stronger at times. Those who want to smoke clean tobacco need to either purchase a pipe or buy special paper, from which there will be no more harm than from an ordinary cigarette.
In the case of the newspaper, products from the burning of printing inks are mixed with ordinary wood resins and other poisons. In addition, today's newspapers are not made of pure wood; various polymers are added there, which also exacerbates the situation.
Conclusion
It is better for heavy smokers to wait until the store opens, so as not to poison yourself with a self-made cigarette from the newspaper, or purchase in reserve and store special paper somewhere in a secluded place. Only in this case, self-rolling will not cause much harm to your lungs.