Why aren’t cigarettes rolled in a thinner paper like almost any other rolling paper there is?
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they need to be robust enough to be in your pocket all day for multiple days and not fall apart.
Most filler tobacco isn’t good enough for you to care about the flavor of the paper, and thicker paper burns faster, leading to more consumed. If you rolled your own with an actually well stored rolling tobacco that is kept in a humidor, rice or hemp paper might be better for the flavor. Not that you should as it will give you cancer and taste bad and be addicting, but if you’re gonna do it anyway the flavor of Marlboros and Newports suck
The high speed machines which make cigarettes run at 144,000 cigarettes per minute. These speeds put immense stress on the components of the cigarette, filter and packaging. All of them have been tested over and over again to ensure that they are robust enough to hold up. The seaming adhesive must set instantly, the filters are held with tipping adhesive which sets up instantly and inner packs, cellophane wraps and cartons flow out in a continuous river of motion. Even cases fly down the conveyors.
I bet there would be more smokers if they used rice paper instead of wood-based. It’s a lot cleaner smoke (at least with weed).
The true answer is they need to be able to survive being manufactured by machines reliably.
Too thin and it’s a torn up mess too thick and no one will want to smoke it.
PSA: I switched over to tobacco tea for 2 weeks, it got me my fix better than vapes, and then i quit without withdrawals really easily.
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