>>>>>I can see it now, a new grass-roots (no pun intended) movement: Roll Your Own!!!!
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>>>>My mom is a smoker. She started smoking a couple of days after I was born and is still puffing away. She used to roll her own back in the late 60's and 70's. She didn't grow tobacco (even thought CT is a good tobacco-growing state), but back then (and probably still now, I don't know), you could by cans of tobacco (about the size of coffee cans) all ready for rolling. She even had a little "machine" that made it easy.
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>>>I remember those - not bad tasting either (as far as cigarettes go). They were called Laredo. You could buy a starter kit that had the machine, papers (looked like regular cigarettes), and a can of tobacco. I smoked for about 15 years.
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>>>My mother smoked from somewhere around birth (her birth) to the day she died at 85. We warned her to quit for decades but she always said smoking wasn't what would finsh her off. She was right.
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>>She was one of the lucky ones. I am not a virulent anti-smoker but did know a number of people who died way before their time from lung cancer. I am grateful that neither of my daughters smokes. One of them has sworn off alcohol as well.
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>My oldest boy (my stepson) was stupid enough to start smoking a couple of years ago. It just amazes me that kids are that stupid after so many decades of evidence showing what it does.
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>I don't generally crusade against smoking, but I don't hang around people who do, and I do make my feelings about it known. I quit 20 years ago and never looked back.

Good for you. From what I have read it is even more addictive than alcohol.