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To: caww

We did that at the end of our addiction, too.

There were ‘roll your own’ tobacco stores around then that you could get cigs made by a machine after you purchased the pipe tobaccos.

They would dump the package of tobacco into a bin on the machine and it would automatically stuff the tobacco into the paper tubes, and you had to have your own container to put them in. It was about half the price of a carton at the time, mid 90’s...................


10 posted on 06/02/2023 8:47:15 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger
The tobacco companies fought against those machines and won. You can't find them anywhere now. They're argument was those stores were “manufacturing” cigarettes.
So people buy the smaller machines and do it themselves.
11 posted on 06/02/2023 8:53:32 AM PDT by caww (O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......)
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