A fellow I use to work with switched to rolling his own to avoid all the chemicals in cigarette. Uses pipe tobacco ....His health improved - smokers cough completely stopped. Tobacco was much smoother he said.
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...................