Olly if you are using pipe tobacco and its always going out you should let it dry out a bit.

Just lay some out or put into a non air tight jar. let it dry a litlle - perhaps overnight. That really should help

thanks for that advice. .I have noticed the smaller end of pack pieces, or 100g drum that I buy it in,  do stay alight for longer.. but then I get thru the cig quicker so tis a bit of swings and roundabouts I suppose. .a wetter one lasts longer as I don't always relight it straight away.. I do the fag ash lil look instead and leave it on my mouth.. but does mean I am smoking less. .tho maybe that's just me deluding myself  also I go thru a shed load of lighters too

Refillable all the way

My Mom and Dad smoked roll up for years and they always used to moan about them going out if they had to use different papers. They always used 'job' papers, they come in a double packet. When ever i've smoked tobacco if it ever dried out too much it was too harsh, my mom used to put a little bit of potato peel in the packet/tin to damp it a little if it was bone dry.

Another of my lil beauties

Stefano Santambrogio

And another - this one is huge, never smoked, like its from LOTR

Yup that is what I use but even they wear out too. .I have to use the electronic ones and my hands/fingers are no longer agile enugh for the roller thingy thing that you get in clipper type lighters.. 

smoking has killed people & the pub trade & bingo halls etc...

if you want to smoke-do it

but dont make everyone else breath your fumes

smoking was banned but shoulda been banned in 'food' pubs

labour shoulda banned smoking in lounges

but not the bar

i smoke

im pissed off with standing in the cold when i want a fag

I'm an ex-smoker - but agree with all that!  I feel smokers are really persecuted now - I agree there have to be smoke free environments, but smokers should have somewhere they can go.

They're not so po-faced or arsey about smoking over yonder across the Channel.

Nor robbing b@stards either.

spain

SPAIN

they dont allow smoking either

SPAIN

Yes they do.  

22 December 2010 Last updated at 00:00

Spain votes for tough smoking ban

Spanish lawmakers have voted to approve a tough new anti-smoking law, meaning that from 2 January, bars and restaurants will be no-smoking zones.

Smokers will also not be allowed to light up on television broadcasts, near hospitals or in school playgrounds.

The bill, proposed by PM Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero and his governing Socialist Party, was passed in the lower house by 189 votes to 154.

Bar and cafe owners fear the law will adversely affect business.

When I visit Alicante the Hotels and bars are all non smoking .

But they make provisions above and beyond!

Yes, there's no smoking inside buildings, but there's loads of sheltered, well equipped areas too (i.e. screens and heaters) and they're not some naff afterthought.  Loads of areas for smoking immediately outside of Malaga airport too. 

My point is, they haven't taken on a gestapo attitude about it.

They've facilitated smokers way beyond anything here in the UK.

And the non smokers don't moan and whinge about it.

Yes, one of my fav places ( for a good t-bone) has a lovely covered in dining area for smokers and then the main inside is for non-smokers. But on the plus side, whenever I'm down there, despite the time of year it's always pleasant enough to sit outside. 

Yeah, the weather does help but I like that it's not just a seasonal thing; it's all year round.  AND the smoking areas are part of the building and not some scabby shack for social pariahs.- 

smokers are persecuted, they are made to feel like social pariahs...   I was increasingly embarrassed about being a smoker...     but I have to be honest..  I never felt angry at being made to feel that way, cos I didn't feel that I was in the right to smoke.

it kills you..   end of.

if it was still socially acceptable then I would probably still be doing it.

The only time I have been tempted to smoke since I quit 7 months ago was in Egypt, where it is still socially acceptable to smoke and everyone is doing it everywhere..    

So I am glad the trend is to make it more & more unacceptable..    and sorry if that upsets some of the still smoking peeps..   but in a way I wish it would upset you enough to quit..   cos I am bloody fond of some of you, and I don't want you to die..   like me mum did 6 months ago, and my boss did (also from lung cancer) 6 weeks ago!

so there!

*disappears back into the real world to carry on celebrating the dogs first birthday!  

Love to you and yours Ditty.

awww..  thank you..   and to you & yours Erin 

This was the bday boy this morning, having his Sunday morning beach run (regular thing...  me & my dad take the dogs to the beach every sunday)

and cos you can't really tell what he looks like now, cos its so bloody difficult to get him to stay still for his photo taken..  here is one taken last weekend when we were celebrating Ickles 21st bday.. 

(Ickle is the one with the tiara on )

I worked that out

He's a beauty!!!   cheers for the pics