Business Opportunity: Custom Cigarettes

With the price of a pack of cigarettes now about $5, I am thinking rolling your own could be saving you some serious money. When I was in Canada some zillion years ago, all the smokers I ran into rolled their own, and not just bums either. I met a truck driver who had a baggie full of smokes. He and his wife would sit down every month or two and roll a thousand cigarettes and that would keep them supplied for a while. I imagine it might be worthwhile for a tobacco shop to roll cigarettes to order for quantities as small as 200. That's what's in a carton. Since most of the price of a pack of ready made smokes is tax, rolling your own, or having them rolled could easily save you a $1000 a year.

On top of that, if you could get organic tobacco, it might be healthier to boot. First of all you get rid of the chemicals that the cigarette companies put in the cigarettes (whatever they are). Second of all you get rid of the radioactive lead, which is probably the cause of lung cancer in smokers. Of course you still get to deal with emphysema, but you can't have everything.