Whats worse, smoking tobacco in a 'roll up' or smoking cigarettes?

Question

I switched from cigarettes to roll ups a few years ago, and each roll up i smoke is about half the the amount of a normal cigarette. Cigarettes seem to smell stronger and last longer. So, in other words, does cigarette tobacco have different qualities to rolling tobacco? Thanks

Answer 1

I would say Roll Ups because they have less chemicals.
Follow the site below to find a table of toxic chemicals in Cigarettes.
Notice it includes Carbon Monoxide, Formaldehyde, Ammonia, and Arsenic.

The home page to the linked site has a passage that states, "While these ingredients are approved as additives for foods, they were not tested by burning them, and it is the burning of many of these substances which changes their properties, often for the worse. Over 4000 chemical compounds are created by burning a cigarette, many of which are toxic and/or carcinogenic."

If you are inhaling these chemicals, then ones around you are inhaling them. Rolling tobacco may have more tar, but you would be making the people around you a bit safer, and you yourself would be inhaling less toxins.

-Miranda

I guess what you have to ask yourself is, Do you want Tar or Chemicals?

Answer 2

This is a question of how dead do you want to be.

The tobacco provided for roll ups generally is not treated with the same chemicals that the ready mades are - you're handling the leaf and doing the manual assembly work. With the ready mades, they need the tobacco to compact more so that the papers are easier to fill, so additives are put in the tobacco that makes it a little more dry.

Either way, the question of what's worse is like asking if it's more fatal to fall from a plane at 1000 feet or 5000 feet.

Answer 3

Hey guys.Even though rollies are cheaper than the factory made cigarettes studies in several countries, including the UK, have found that perceptions that they are more natural, contain fewer harmful additives, and are safer than straights is a major reason people smoke them – a misconception that could be dangerous, experts said.
The factory made cigarettes are less worse as they have to pass through a bureau of standards for them to be produced. The fact that they also have a filter helps reducing the residuals which settle at the lungs of users. Rather than the 'rollies' which allow every combustible residual to the users' lungs which is riskier.

Answer 4

Roll Up Cigarettes

Answer 5

Break off a filter from a tipped cigarette, then smoke another cigarette and do the same with that filter. Compare them!!
The brown gunge on the dirty cig would be in your lungs if it were not for the filter.Unfortunately the filter only blocks a very small fraction of the noxious chemicals,so smoking either type is very bad for you.
People used to justify smoking reefers (spliffs) by saying that they were harmless,this has now also been proven wrong.
Fresh air rules!!!

Answer 6

When I smoked, I rolled my own. Often, the ritual of sitting back from the problem and rolling a cigarette was all that was needed and it was put, unlit, into the ashtray. I also found that only a few puffs were needed to satisfy my craving and a single roll-up would do the job of several taylor-mades.

You can get filters for roll-ups, by the way: Swan and Rizla make them but the best advice is to give it up altogether.

Answer 7

Both are bad, and both still make you stink. Cutting down on the amount of cigarettes you smoke isn't any healthier than smoking loads.. your lungs will still hate you either way. Best thing to do is quit. :-)

Read this: http://www.citynews.ca/news/features_6043.aspx

Answer 8

there are more chemicals in normal cigarettes especially in the paper to keep it burning, whereas rollies go out all the time. However, giving up rollies is a whole lot more difficult than cigarettes, the addiction is much much stronger. Why I dont know.

A rollie smoker trying to give up.

Answer 9

Rolling tobacco has a higher tar content but you tend not to smoke so much of it. Either will kill you.

Answer 10

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