As a smoker you may favour the taste and smell of hand rolled tobacco to that of tailor made cigarettes, find them considerably less expensive than ready made cigarettes and find the whole process of rolling your own cigarettes therapeutic, taking pride in a well rolled cigarette.
Once a cigarette with an "old man" image, hand rolling tobacco or roll your own (RYO) is now considered a cheap alternative for younger smokers or for smokers of manufactured cigarettes who trade down due to the cost of smoking resulting in sales of hand rolling tobacco more than doubling since the 1990's and the RYO industry undergoing an image change.
RYO tobacco is often associated with a natural and chemical free smoke and there are ongoing debates within the smoking community as to whether hand rolling tobacco is actually healthier than tailor made cigarettes. According to research conducted by the NHS Helpline, 1 in 4 smokers believe hand rolling tobacco to be less harmful than pre-manufactured cigarettes
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Hand Rolling Tobacco Vs Tailor Made Cigarettes
First things first, there is no such thing as a healthy cigarette, whether you choose to smoke hand-rolled tobacco or tailor made cigarettes you will still sooner or later succumb to the consequences of smoking. That being said, there is some evidence to suggest hand rolling tobacco is the healthier option but also evidence to suggest it's not, but there is no hard scientific evidence to support either claim.
One reason that tops the table in favour of hand rolling tobacco is the chemicals found in cigarettes. During the production process 599 additives are added to cigarettes resulting in over 4000 chemicals when burned. One chemical found in cigarettes is Potassium Nitrate which keeps the cigarette burning. If you have ever smoked a hand rolled cigarette you will notice they have a tendency to go out whereas tailored cigarettes will burn until burnt-out
At present there is no hard evidence to suggest that hand rolling tobacco is more healthy or less healthy than tailor made cigarette or vice versa. At the end of the day it's all swings and roundabouts with both hand rolled cigarettes and tailor made cigarettes leading to the same outcome and the only truly healthy cigarette being the cigarette you never smoke.
However, even thought RYO cigarettes contain less additives resulting in less chemicals there is no data to suggest hand rolling tobacco is any less toxic than pre-manufactured cigarettes as both produce a number of carcinogens as a by-product of tobacco burning and any smoker who believes hand rolling tobacco to be a safer smoke may be deluding themselves.
On the downside RYO cigarettes are subject to less strict regulations than factory-made cigarettes and are thought to contain higher tar and nicotine levels than pre-packaged cigarettes with some suggesting tar, carbon monoxide and nicotine levels are three to six times higher than that of manufactured cigarettes resulting in a greater danger to health.
The true level of tar and nicotine is however difficult to verify as machine smoking data does not accurately reflect human smoking behaviour and with RYO cigarettes there are many variables to consider, for example: Does the cigarette contain a filter (most RYO smokers smoke unfiltered cigarettes which produce a less healthy smoke), how much tobacco is used to make the cigarette and the paper porosity used to roll the cigarette (Thicker papers result in higher levels of tar than thinner papers).
In addition to higher tar levels, RYO cigarettes are thought to contain higher nicotine levels resulting in greater dependence. In one study of RYO smokers and those of manufactured cigarettes smoking a similar number of cigarettes each day it was found that those smoking hand rolled cigarettes were more addicted to nicotine and had less desire to quit.
Conclusion
The RYO tobacco industry is aware of the lower tax rates placed on tobacco and is targeting a younger market with the message that RYO cigarettes are organic and natural and with the term "natural" comes the perception of healthy but both the RYO industry and the pre-packaged cigarette industry have the same intention, to get you hooked and make you pay. As the saying in the industry goes "A smoker is a smoker for life no matter how short that life is"
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