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"Almost every marijuana using population uses paper filters (like cheap russian cigs), and also throw in resin in their cones(cheaper and easier to transport for the drugrunners)."

Most smoking hash in joints though use tobacco instead of marijuana to roll their filtered "cones." A lot of them even mix tobacco with their pot buds. I could see people using filters here, but only of pot was cheaper. If it was cheaper I don't think people would be smoking even the butts of joints either. If you look back to the Great Depression era in this country, poor people who liked cigarettes would follow a man a mile to pick up his cigarette butt, at least that's what my depression era grandfather used to say people did back then. I knew a guy in college who would actually save cigarette butts people would leave in ashtrays and roll his own from the resinous tobacco in the butts, which is pretty disgusting. But he couldn't afford to buy tobacco. In prison, I'm told, inmates buy "rollies" which are skinny little unfiltered cigarettes. From what I understand, a regular filtered cigarette is broken down into three "rollies." They'll pay a couple of bucks for one of these little skimpy cigarettes. Guards apparently bring in packs of cigarettes or bags of tobacco and inmates sell it for way more than what it is worth "in the world." I hear those guys paying a couple of bucks for a tiny cigarette smoke every last bit of one when they get it too. When they get out of prison though where cigarettes are relatively cheap, they go back to smoking filtered cigarettes and put them out before they burn down to the filter, not worrying about wasting a little bit of tobacco. It's all about the money.