Rolling paper

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Rolling paper is a specialty

roll-your-own cigarettes). Rolling papers are packs of several cigarette-size sheets, often folded inside a cardboard wrapper. They are also known as 'blanks', which are used to encase tobacco or cannabis.[1]
It may be flavoured.

Rolling papers are also used for rolling cannabis cigarettes called joints.

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History

1898 French cigarette paper advertisement poster

Paper cigarettes became popular in the second half of the 19th century, displacing the more expensive cigars and cigarillos.

As cigars and cigarillos were expensive, the beggars of Spain would collect the cigar butts from the ground and roll them in pieces of paper to be smoked. During the Crimean War this culture became more prevalent and British soldiers learned how to roll tobacco in newspapers. Frequent use of rolling paper became a custom, and to fulfil the need, rolling paper companies Pay-Pay, Smoking, and Rizla emerged.[2]


Composition

Several brands of rolling papers

Cigarette paper is made from thin and lightweight "rag fibers" (nonwood plant fibers) such as

Poly(vinyl alcohol) in aqueous solution is used for cigarette adhesives.[6]

Permeability is defined as the measure of the volume of air that flows through a specified area of cigarette paper in a given unit of time. It is measured in CORESTA units. US commercial filter cigarette brands have paper permeability between 14 and 51 CORESTA units. Increased cigarette paper permeability results in increased smoke dilution with air.[7]

ethylene vinyl acetate
. If a cigarette made with this type of paper is left unattended, the plastic in the paper will help the cigarette self-extinguish.

Other specialty papers for tobacco products are:

  • Imitation cork paper is a brownish yellow colored paper used for the production of cigarette tips. It has an imitation cork imprint and joins the filter to the tobacco stick.
  • Filter encasing paper is used for the production of acetate or cellulose filters. The tip paper may be covered with polyvinyl alcohol.[8]
  • Cigar or cigarillo casing paper holds the chopped tobacco together and serves as the inner casing.

Consumption

United States

Rolling paper from Nypa fruticans leaf

In 2008, Tobacconist Magazine called

roll-your-own (RYO) the tobacco industry's fastest growing segment. It estimates that 2–4% of cigarette smokers in the United States, or approximately 2.6 million people, make their own cigarettes. Many of these smokers have switched in response to increasingly high taxes on manufactured cigarettes.[9]

Canada

In 2000, a Canadian government survey estimated that 9% of Canada's 6,000,000 cigarette smokers smoked hand-rolled cigarettes "sometimes or most of the time", 7% smoked roll-your-owns "exclusively", and over 90% of rolling papers sold in Canada were for tobacco consumption.[citation needed][needs update] A more recent 2009 study has shown that approximately 925,000 Canadians roll their own cigarettes.[10]

Ungummed rolling paper packet from Lebanon

United Kingdom

According to The Publican, "Low price RYO has seen an astonishing rise of 175% in [2007] as cigarette smokers look for cheaper alternatives and to control the size of their smoke".[11] The National Health Service has reported that roll-your-own use has more than doubled since 1990, from 11% to 24%. Many of these smokers apparently believe that hand-rolled cigarettes are less harmful than manufactured products,[12] although it is equally possible that the increase is due to the steep rise in prices since the early-1990s to the present day.[13]

Thailand

In Thailand, smokers of roll-your-own cigarettes have long outnumbered smokers of manufactured brands.[14] A 2008 survey found that 58% of surveyed smokers in Thailand rolled their own cigarettes, compared to just 17% in neighbouring Malaysia.[15]

New Zealand

The New Zealand Ministry of Health reported in 2005 that: 'The ratio of roll-your-own to manufactured or tailor-made cigarettes consumed by New Zealanders has risen over (at least) the past decade, perhaps reflecting price differences between these products, and currently approaching 50 percent overall.'[16]

India

As the prices of cigarettes rise year after year, roll-your-own is becoming a trend among Indian smokers. Rolling papers and rolling tobacco are now easily accessible and can be bought at almost any Pan Shops in India.[citation needed]

Taxation

Consumers' switching to roll-your-own has led to a response among certain tax authorities. In the United States, Indiana and Kentucky tax rolling papers. Kentucky set its tax at $0.25 per pack (for up to 32 leaves, larger packs are taxed at $0.0078 per leaf) in 2006 despite complaints from manufacturers. Louisiana Revised Statute 47:338.261 allows up to $1.25 per pack at retail.

Regulation

United States

The

FDA stated in 2011 that every brand (including private labels) of cigarette rolling papers sold in the US must submit their ingredients and seek agency approval or withdraw from the marketplace by March of that year if they had not been sold in the US before February 15, 2007.[17]

See also

References

  1. ^ "What Are Rolling Papers? | Rolling Papers Definition By Weedmaps". Weedmaps. Retrieved 2021-03-25.
  2. ^ "Rolling Papers: The History Full Guide — My Rolling Tray". myrollingtray.com. 2 May 2021. Retrieved 2021-05-06.
  3. ^ Ken Podraza, Basic Principles of Cigarette Design and Function (PDF), Philip Morris USA
  4. ^ Iver Peterson, "Roll-your-owns cuts taxes", New York Times, October 14, 2002.TTB stats Archived 2009-05-12 at the Wayback Machine.
  5. PMID 19291309
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  6. ^ The Publican – Home – Tobacco sales drop in Scotland.
  7. ^ BBC, "Smoker poll reveals roll-ups myth", May 30, 2006 Online copy.
  8. ^ "Shop For E-Cigs, E-Liquids & Vapes with free UK delivery".
  9. ^ "Cigarette Consumption", Thailand Health Promotion Institute PDF document Archived 2006-07-21 at the Wayback Machine.
  10. ISSN 1462-2203
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  11. ^ Ministry of Health, "Seeing through the Smoke: Tobacco Monitoring in New Zealand", Public Health Intelligence: Occasional Bulletin (26), 2005 PDF document.
  12. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Food and Drug Administration. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2017-02-22. Retrieved 2019-12-16.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

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