in response to twisting ends...
it's not nessicary, i only do it when the joints aren't going to be smoked right away, and shit like that. and when i do twist the ends i twist both, right before i light it, i bite both off, like all the paper, kind of hard to explain, but when i do it you only see about ink tube (part inside the pen that actually has the ink in it) worth of green on both sides, which ever side is tightest is the side i light (i'd rather be smoking from the looser end [if there is one] then the tighter end, i like taking huge hits with joints and that's kinda hard to do if you are hitting off a tight end)