Rolling paper

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Rolling papers are small sheets, rolls, or leaves of paper which are sold for rolling one's own cigarettes either by hand or with a rolling machine. When rolling a cigarette, one fills the rolling paper with tobacco, shag, marijuana or other herbs. They are most commonly made with wood pulp, hemp, flax, or rice as a base material. Some companies may use esparto, which might lead to a slightly higher carcinogen level when burned.Ref The basic design of a single paper is a long rectangle with a narrow strip of glue or gum all along one of the long edges. Longer, rice-based rolling papers are also often used to make spliffs or used by connoisseurs for the finest possible cigarette. Rolling papers are also called skins or rollies, but the term skinning up usually only refers to the act of rolling a spliff[1]. Newer rolling papers are available in various flavors. This is said to enhance the smoking experience. The latest rolling papers are unbleached with a translucent brown color.

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Rolling papers have experienced a resurgence of popularity because it has become increasingly less expensive to roll cigarettes than to purchase a machine-made one in many countries including the USA Ref. Tax policy is the key reason for the cost differential. In addition, people who roll their own cigarettes can customize the cigarette to any shape, size, and form they choose. Rolling papers are sold in sizes 70mm - 110mm with widths ranging from 1 to 1.5 times the "standard width".

In the United States, Tobacconist Magazine has called roll-your-own the tobacco industry's fastest growing segment. It estimates that 2-4% of US cigarette smokers, or approximately 1.5 million people, make their own cigarettes. Many of these smokers have switched in response to increasingly high taxes on manufactured cigarettes. [2]

In 2000, a Canadian government survey estimated that 9% of Canada's 6 million cigarette smokers smoked hand-rolled cigarettes "sometimes or most of the time" - 7% smoked roll-your-owns "exclusively", and over 90% of Rolling papers sold in Canada were for Tobacco consumption.[3]

According to The Publican, "Low price RYO has seen an astonishing rise of 175 per cent in [2007] as cigarette smokers look for cheaper alternatives and to control the size of their smoke" Ref.Britain's National Health Service has reported that roll-your-own use has more than doubled since 1990, from 11% to 24%. Many of these smokers apparently believe that hand rolled cigarettes are healthier than manufactured products. [4]

In Thailand, roll-your-own smokers have long exceeded those for manufactured brands[5]. New Zealand reported in 2005 that: The ratio of roll-your-own to manufactured or tailor-made cigarettes consumed by New Zealanders has risen over (at least) the past decade, perhaps reflecting price differences between these products, and currently approaching 50 percent overall. [6]

Consumers switching to roll-your-own has led to a response among certain tax authorities. In the United States, Indiana and Kentucky tax rolling papers. Kentucky set its tax at $0.25 per pack (for up to 32 leaves, larger packs are taxed at $0.0078 per leaf) in 2006 despite complaints from manufacturers. [7]

The Spanish manufacturer of Bambu and Smoking was recently convicted in Spain of using illegal carcinogenic materials, namely esparto, in their cigarette papers to cut costs.[8]. [9]

Rolling paper can be used for more than just rolling cigarettes:

  • After soaking in potassium nitrate, rolling paper can be fitted to a base bullet to make a combustible cartridge. [10]
  • Has been used as an inexpensive bandage to stop bleeding [11]
  • Players of wind instruments, particularly flutes, use rolling paper as a blotter to remove moisture that accumulates in keypads or joints.[12] Some clarinet players use a folded piece of rolling paper over their two front bottom teeth to protect the bottom lip from being cut, due to the pressure from the weight of the clarinet on the lip.[13]
  • Used in CAM (computer aided manufacture) for setting the right level for drills. The paper is placed on the object to be cut, drilled, or similar, and the drill is lowered until it catches the paper. Because the paper is so thin, this is the easiest way to get an exact start point for the drill.
  • Setting the mechanical ignition on a motorcycle: the cardboard for the spark plug gap and a Rizla for the points gap (Rizla Green/Red/Blues work)[citation needed].

See Also: Clear rolling papers for brands of cellulose rolling papers and Blunt (cigar) for brands of blunt papers

  1. ^ Nick Jones, "Skinning Up" in "Spliffs: A Celebration of Cannabis Culture", Collins & Brown, 2003: pp. 94-133.
  2. ^ Iver Peterson, "Roll-your-owns cuts taxes", New York Times, October 14, 2002.
  3. ^ Canadian Tobacco Use Monitoring Survey (CTUMS) 2000 Online fact sheet
  4. ^ BBC, "Smoker poll reveals roll-ups myth", May 30, 2006 Online copy
  5. ^ "Cigarette Consumption", Thailand Health Promotion Institute PDF document
  6. ^ Ministry of Health, "Seeing through the Smoke: Tobacco Monitoring in New Zealand", Public Health Intelligence: Occasional Bulletin (26), 2005 PDF document
  7. ^ Tom Loftus, "Tax Hike Targets Cigarette Papers", Courier Journal, April 17, 2006 Online document
  8. ^ (Spanish) El fabricante de 'Smoking' niega que su papel de fumar lleve productos cancerígenos. 20 minutos (2006-07-19). Retrieved on 2007-06-16.
  9. ^ Mark Emery, "Major Rolling Paper Company convicted of adding carcinogens to their papers", Cannabis Culture, August 2007 Online document
  10. ^ Johnny Bates and Mike Cumpston, "Percussion Pistols and Revolvers: History, Performance and Practical Use", iUniverse, 2005: Pg.75.
  11. ^ Anthony Cavender, "Folk Medicine in Southern Appalachia", University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill: 2003, pg. 98.
  12. ^ Meghan Daum, "Music is my Bag", Harper's Magazine, March 2000.
  13. ^ "Health Problems of Musicians", Arizona Health Sciences Library Online Document

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