Started rolling and keep getting burned/burning my clothes! Help!
20 year smoker. Can't afford Newports anymore and everything else significantly cheaper ive tried tastes gross.
So I bought a 6oz bag of gambler menthol, a gambler hand roller machine, and Kashmir coral tubes. Cherry kept falling out so I packed tighter and smoked then tighter hoping the cherry would stop falling. By the time the cherry stopped falling, it was so hard to pull it wasnt worth it and my tubes kept ripping or exploding.
So I did some AI-search lol. I bought an electric roller like it suggested and It said pipe tobacco has ribbons that are too long so I chopped it up and made sure to roll packed cigarette in my fingers and packed on the table. Still getting burnt from falling lit ashes.
So I dried it for 5 minutes after chopping (read that 10 mins is too long for menthol and would remove the taste. Paper was burning faster than tobacco and having long lit ashes tilting that would again fall and burn me.
So I bought a different brand The Good Stuff Menthol and new tubes - ohm premium green.
Still cut and dried because the ribbons ended up being longer with the good stuff.
Played with tightening but I still get that long angled lit ash that falls on me. If I try to ash it like a store bought cigarette with a light flick and the whole cherry pops out.
I would really like to stop getting burnt and burning small holes in my clothes. Even bought a car pack since the ash fell in between my toes while driving and I had to tolerate it to avoid an accident. Fuck that hurt.
I dont know what else I can do to avoid "air pockets --if thats the problem. I spend a lot of time each cigarette and the outcome is the same even when I don't pack it.
Please help!
Picture is of when the ash starts to tilt before it falls. Then a light tap and cherry is out.