What about bookshops? If they get caught stocking them will it be possession with intent to supply?

do you suppose their is an age limit on when you can buy them?

Or candy ones for the kiddys...

Now, how would these book cigarettes work in terms of book distribution across the pack? Would each cigarette be an entire book in one, and each pack would contain 20 copies of the same book, or perhaps several books that are in a series? Or would it require the whole pack to read one book? And in either of the last two cases, what would happen if you smoked them in the wrong order, or gave one to a friend?

I like the idea of each book being a cigarrette of it's own, with multiple copies.

Of course really big books are more than one, but you still get two or three in each pack.

So you could fit a few of each in each pack. Say each cigarrette is 200 pages or so of standard type. In a pack of twenties that gives us 4000 pages. A book of 600 would be three cigarrettes worth and you could have six copies. Or 3 copies and another book of similar length. The remaining two are short story compilations.

But what about technical manuals? How could you put diagrams into these? The shape of the smoke? Or hallucinations? And that is the second hand reading I am worried about: imagine suddenly seeing a topological map of Spain say while walking around in a cafe'?

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'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland

LOL, you'll only get that effect if you are smoking Timothy Leary.

or you happen to accidentally light up a jasper fforde book

What would you have left over once you'd finished smoking the book?

Would tramps collect spoilers until they had enough to read an entire booksworth?

no, i think if you smoked the book only the covers should be left

At least getting past censorship would become easier: you only had to break off the filter tip.

So you'd have blurbs, and maybe the "By the same author" pages...

you'd have to be a pretty fast reader to get in 20 a day.

Well, it is a good way to limit yourself. I will only have one.

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'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland

Perhaps the classics would be better as a cigar, something to be savoured?

Along with X-men comics.

Well, there is the solution to War and Peace....

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'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland