Quote Originally Posted by birdgirl73
I saw some little cigarette-like filters where I bought these others, but I thought they might filter out too much of a good thing.
Yeah, they probably would. Joints kind of serve as their own filter; a little self filtering, self "resinating" stick that gets more and more dense as you approach the roach. But at least with a joint, you get to smoke the "filter" as you go along. This filter you saw, if similar to what's on a cigarette (synthetic), would end up being wasted "good stuff".

But you complained of harshness. Smoke is harsh because a) it's HOT, and b)because large particles in the smoke irritate our lungs (watch the "shooting stars" rifle into you through the stem of your pipe next time you smoke with translucent glass). Joints do nothing to cool the smoke, but they do filter better than a pipe (which does neither).

The best filter is a glass bong with a MASSIVE reservoir, filled with ice and water. Bubbling smoke through ice water cools it significantly, and catches larger particulates in the burnoff that would get sucked straight through a pipe stem. Cool and smooth.

Oh yeah, quality of what you're smoking will sometimes affect harshness too.

Twenty years huh? Wow. I thought I was doing something coming back from just a year layoff.