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Author: Claire Annette
Date: 2008-11-04 22:52
This will date me, for sure! Back when I was in high school and no one had issues with selling a 16-year old student cigarette paper, I bought two packs of papers, two for 79 cents, I think.
Over three decades later, I'm about to run out of paper. (Got my money's worth, huh?)
In my search for cigarette paper, I haven't been able to find any ungummed. Is ungummed cigarette paper even made any more? If so, what brand do I need to look for?
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|__(a nonsmoker who knows nothing about tobacco products)
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Author: weberfan
Date: 2008-11-04 23:41
Jeanne, in Minnesota, has ungummed cigarette papers, 150 leaves to the book. Each book is $1. i just bought 15.
http://www.jeanne-inc.com/
The Rite-Aid drug store in my town is almost out of EZ-Wider, and besides, everyone looks at me oddly when I go in to buy four or five books. Apparently I'm the only one who buys them.
Post Edited (2008-11-04 23:55)
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Author: bmcgar ★2017
Date: 2008-11-05 01:07
I stopped using cigarette papers when one "dissolved" like soaked facial tissue and had me frantically trying to remove the gunk from the tone hole before my next entrance.
I use Kimberly-Clark"s KimWipes now. They're thicker and therefore easier to handle, they seem just as absorbent, they don't fall apart when moist, and they don't shed "lint."
B.
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Author: Claire Annette
Date: 2008-11-05 01:08
Thanks, weberfan, for the Jeanne link. I was just there and couldn't find what you mentioned? Is it something you just have to ask about if you call?
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Author: Claire Annette
Date: 2008-11-05 01:16
Never mind. I found the papers on the Jeanne site. Know what? That's EXACTLY the same brand I have left from three decades ago! I double-checked the price tag on the booklet. The price back then was actually two booklets for 29 cents. Now, at $1 for one booklet....what an outrage!
Ha, just kidding. I'm going to order three booklets right now. Thanks for the info! B., I've never had a problem with the OCB papers. Never.
(By the way, in a concert last night, I was swabbing out my clarinet between every piece, trying to avoid condensation build-up in the infamous C# tone hole.)
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Author: EEBaum
Date: 2008-11-05 01:57
weberfan said:
>>everyone looks at me oddly when I go in to buy four or five books. Apparently I'm the only one who buys them.
I think there's an entirely different reason people might look oddly at someone who's buying multiple books of cigarette papers...
-Alex
www.mostlydifferent.com
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Author: C2thew
Date: 2008-11-05 02:15
Solution is a 2 fer: Buy a box of zonda classico reeds, and they include cigarette paper (not sure if they still do) in the box!
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. they are but improved means to an unimproved end, an end which was already but too easy to arrive as railroads lead to Boston to New York
-Walden; Henry Thoreau
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Author: Brenda ★2017
Date: 2008-11-05 02:37
They sure do! I use each sheet many, many times before they rip or are otherwise unsuitable. So I've gone through more boxes of Zonda Classico reeds over the years than packs of papers, and have given the extra packs away. I fold them double before using them and they wick the moisture away in a flash! They dry quickly too.
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Author: weberfan
Date: 2008-11-05 04:08
Alex: My point precisely. Telling the clerk that I'm buying cigarette papers to dry tone holes seems to fall on skeptical ears. And the people in the line in back of me seem to give me a wide berth.
Claire Annette: The EZ-Wider papers I've been buying are, indeed, gummed. So were the other brands that I eventually bought up in their entirety. The OCB papers at Jeanne are the only ungummed ones I've found. By the way, a local tobacconist I went to said he'd sell me cigarette papers, but only if I purchased tobacco as well.
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Author: clarnibass
Date: 2008-11-05 04:38
I use Smoking but I use them mainly as a feeler for finding leaks. The type I use is thin but for drying tone holes I guess a thicker type is better. Actually I just read the Wikipedia page about this company and since I'm in my last pack now, I will probably change to a different one.
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Author: LarryBocaner ★2017
Date: 2008-11-05 13:10
When I went to the tobacconist at nearby Fair Oaks mall to buy multiple packs of ungummed cigarette paper to share with my students, the sales clerk (owner?) looked at me and said: "I know who you are!"
I replied: "OK, who am I."
His answer: " You're a band director!"
Wrong answer, but an awfully good guess!
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Author: stevensfo
Date: 2008-11-05 20:32
If you have to buy a load of cigarette papers, why don't you all just do it?
What's all this with having to give a reason?
Just say "I smoke a lot."
A lot easier then having to explain about clarinets etc!
Steve
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Author: JJAlbrecht
Date: 2008-11-05 22:42
"Just say "I smoke a lot." "
Nah... I would rather come up with some really bizarro excuse than Have someone think I was indulging an addiction.
Wait a minute. I'm NOT a clarinet addict. I can quit any time I want to! ![[rotate]](http://test.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/smileys/smiley25.gif)
Jeff
“Everyone discovers their own way of destroying themselves, and some people choose the clarinet.” Kalman Opperman, 1919-2010
"A drummer is a musician's best friend."
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Author: stevensfo
Date: 2008-11-06 09:28
"Wait a minute. I'm NOT a clarinet addict. I can quit any time I want to! "
Me too. You know what's great? Those patches you can buy to help with the craving can also be used on the mouthpiece! ;-)
Steve
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