A question about weed consumption (serious)

[Dystopia]

If you suggested putting tobacco in your joint over here on this side of the pond, you would be laughed out of the circle.  Seriously, I've never heard of such a thing.  

There's no need to cut weed with tobacco to weaken its potency.  Just take smaller hits of the pure stuff. That way you get all the flavanoids of the weed without any of the crap smoke from the tobacco.

It sounds to me that this is just a cultural preference sort of thing, and that there's no real practical application for adding tobacco beyond that's what you enjoy.

Well, 99% of people I know smoke cigarettes aside from weed - I've only met one person who didn't smoke cigarettes regularly and smoked weed, but he did add rolling tobacco as well to his joints. I understand it's probably a cultural thing, it also depends on the potency and "kind" of weed is available on both sides of the globe, as well as price. I don't know this from experience, but from what my friends tell me (as said in the OP) hash and solidified forms of weed will not burn correctly if you don't add tobacco, so most people mix tobacco anyway.

When I was in school I noticed people who smoked cigarettes were also the majority of weed smokers, but that's probably a cultural thing - I'm not saying you need to smoke both if you smoke one of them - But if you smoked cigarettes in most schools I've been to, you'd probably find yourself in a circle of, so to speak, rebellious groups of people who do lots of dangerous things, and there's probably people who smoke and sell weed. Of course, I don't doubt there's many people around who smoke only weed, but the majority will still add tobacco - For less harsh puffs, just buy a brand of rolling tobacco that is soft, it will taste much better - BTW, back in my day (when I was a teen) most people didn't smoke rolling tobacco due to the low price of normal packs, so most people would remove the tobacco out of a normal cigarette and mix it with weed.