Barter Item: Three Cent Cigarettes

Cigarettes ~ First know that tobacco is taxed based on how "fine" it is. Cigarette tobacco is thinner and taxed $30/lb on top of the tobacco cost. If you want that thin put pipe tobacco (same thing, just slightly larger cut) in a food processor or coffee grinder and pulse once or twice.

From reading posts I realized tobacco is not to be "dry" and needs no silica/desiccant and I'm seeing some posts against o2 absorbers. I'll talk storage options below.

• Buy 16oz bags of menthol and nonmenthol pipe tobacco at a cigarette shop at $12-15.
• Buy 3 cartons of 200ct tubes and filter boxes per bag of tobacco $2-3 each.
• At $15 + $9 ($3x3) you're looking at $8 a carton, $.80 a pack, or $0.04 each!
• At $12 + $6 ($2x3) you're looking at $6 a carton, $.60 a pack, or $0.03 each!
• Decide on either: 
• buying cheap cigarette makers you can give out/toss if they break $2.19 on ebay.
• tends to jam/break but priced well. 
• you wont cry if you break it, unless you only had on
• slow. i can make maybe 50-75 in a full hour.
• buy a more expensive manual cigarette making machine. 
• I suggest Powermatic I (not II) as it works with no electricity.
• You can find cheaper by $3 on ebay, but I pd $50 @ amazon bc of easy returns. 
• most likely won't break.
• fast. saw a guy make 100 in 20 minutes. thats 300 in an hour.
• can order a few replacement parts now for shtf.
• Now that you have your items you have two options. Roll at least 1 box at once (or all 3 to empty one bag of tobacco), or wait until SHTF. Both seem like fine options the only thing I'd say is wrap the boxes of tubes with more saran wrap and keep everything in a dry, cool, dark place. I've seen people do both without issue.
• My favorite storage options...
• Ask friends who smoke to save you their empty boxes. Once you have 15 boxes you have enough for one "carton" of tubes and filters, and 50 boxes should cover one "bag" of tobacco. In this case, if friends mainly smoke kings (shorter, 84mm) you should purchase kings tubes instead of 100s. Once you put the filled RYO cigarettes in packs (16-18 should fit okay), wrap the pack in saran wrap well. You can even do a layer of foil under the saran wrap if you like. You can place packs in a bin, put in a cabinet, try vac sealing (stop before crushed), or even place the wrapped packs in mylar, pushing as much air out as possible before sealing (use o2 absorbers at your own risk, i heard they dry out cigarettes).
• Open everything, roll everything, put filled cigarettes back in carton box, wrap in aluminum foil then saran wrap the box really well. You can place cartons in a bin, put in a cabinet, try vac sealing (stop before crushed), or even place the wrapped cartons in mylar, pushing as much air out as possible before sealing (use o2 absorbers at your own risk, i heard they dry out cigarettes).
• Mason Jar loose tobacco or cigarettes if you'd like to do so. I know pints hold cigarettes perfectly though I can't remember how many. I saw a woman on youtube who had 1000s of jars I guess, because she used about 100 for RYO cigarettes. She used the jar attachment to suck out air. I don't know if this dries everything out though, and I personally wouldn't give out mason jars in a shtf... I think these were for her personal use.