More necessity than choice...
A few years back I was placed in the Army Glasshouse for going AWOL for a few months. I have never seen such behavior and doubt I will again.

You're weekly budget in there was around £5.16. That would buy you maybe 2 pouches of tobacco, some Rizzla, some matches and maybe a chocolate bar. Smoking was literally the highlight of the day and you can imagine the amount you'd smoke when you're locked up in a room with 7 strangers for 16 hours.
Needless to say, 2 small pouches was not enough to last a week.

I personally drew the line at smoking through monopoly paper when the Rizzla ran out however the other lads took it a bit further.
In there I witnessed people empty and hide the contents of the ashtray so they could extract the remaining shards of tobacco from fag butts to be smoked later on in the week. I saw people go through bins in smoking areas in the rain to salvage more (wet) tobacco and re-roll and smoke them on the spot. The worst one however was...

You know the nicorette inhalators you can get. Like the little plastic cigarettes with a nicotine capsule. Well I saw said capsules smashed open to reveal a hard, nicotine drenched pod which were then rolled up in rizzla and smoked.
I say smoked, however 1 drag was taken each by a few people and they couldn't talk for around 3 hours after. That was rock-bottom.

Another was in Iraq, instead of getting a cake and candles for someones birthday, we melted down some Yorkie bars and Oatmeal blocks from the ration packs, made into a cake shaped block and stuck some lit zippo lighters in there.
...It did the trick.
( Terry_Tibbs Coarse and violent nudity. Occasional language, Fri 24 Oct 2008, 4:26, 2 replies)

Smoke
In desperate times I tried to smoke tea out of a tea bag as it vaguely looked like tobacco, I had a rizla and I used a small part of the actual bag as a perfectly perforated filter.

Sounds good so far.....

It's fookin vile.
(amsterdam_neild, Fri 24 Oct 2008, 8:31, closed)

Seconded!
I remember how sick I felt after feeling so proud of my 'ingenuity'
(AndyC4m Eject Eject [><], Fri 24 Oct 2008, 9:18, closed)