Klarinet Archive - Posting 000440.txt from 1996/05

From: Delton Sizemore <sizemod@-----.AU>
Subj: Re: Cigarette paper: friend or foe?
Date: Mon, 20 May 1996 01:33:17 -0400

On Sun, 19 May 1996, Teri Herel wrote:

> In a message dated 96-05-19 13:05:02 EDT, KClarinet@-----.COM (Karl Krelove)
> writes:
>
> >>On cigarette paper, I carry it full time in my case--nearly got busted in
> >>high school
> >>when the HS principal came to observe the class. It took me TEN MINUTES to
> >>finally convince the woman that I really WASN'T smoking on campus.
> >>(BTW at my HS no tobacco products were allowed on campus)
> >
> >I've had teenage students who were too nervous even to go to a tobacco shop
> >to ask for it. They've had to get their parents to go, or with their
> parents'
> >permission I've had to get it for them. BTW, have you noticed how hard it is
> >now to find UNGUMMED papers? Only in the tobacco shops - the drug pharmacies
> >and variety stores only have the gummed edges, which make me very nervous
> >around wet pads.
> >
>
> I had a woman customer behind me ask if she could go home with me when I
> stepped up to the register at a gas station and asked for five packs of
> rolling paper! (I like to stock up all at once, otherwise I tend to forget.)
>
> As for the glue, I simply tear off that edge before I use the paper. Takes
> about three seconds.
>
Wouldn't laboratory filter paper be much better? It would certainly
absorb more water than cigarette pape. I work in a laboratory so I'll
take some home and try it tonight.

Del Sizemore
Lismore
Australia