Why tobacco & paper(for cigarette) separate in old movies?!


Question: Why tobacco & paper(for cigarette) separate in old movies?
In old Humphrey Bogart movies like Maltese falcon ,The Treasure of Sierra Madre ..etc..etc. he rolls the tobacco in a paper sticks it & then smokes it as a cigarette.Until which year was it in use(ie tobacco &paper separate)

Answers:

Smokers are still rolling their own cigarettes. But when machine made cigarettes became commonplace in the WWII era, most people stopped bothering. The ones who continued were those who had preferences about blending their own tobacco mixtures and did not mind the fuss.

There are great old movies where the spies wrote secret messages on the very fine tobacco papers.



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It's called "Rolling your own" and is still common - a cheaper way to smoke than to buy ready made cigarettes



Probably still is. I don't smoke but I can remember seeing people roll cigarettes in the late 70's and early eighties.




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