Quote Originally Posted by LIP
The art is to roll it so that when your not hitting it the tip is only slightly embering, so little that no smoke comes off of it, and it's not burning away.
Exactly...if it's not rolled right or rolled too loose, it will burn away a lot faster. I smoke joints less then blunts and bowls now, but used to a lot back in the day, and if you roll them right, they burn alright.

When I'm smoking a blunt that I rolled, sometimes you can't even tell it's lit, because there is such slight embering. I actually don't find blunts to be wasteful at all...at least mine don't really burn anything when I'm not hitting it...it just chills lol.