My point exactly buddy. They burn slower and if you aren't constantly sucking on it, they have a tendancy to go out and you find yourself relighting them for every hit. (Especialy when you are smoking ill, sticky weed.)
Do yourself a favour. Take a new cigarette butt and soak it in nail varnish remover. Acetone is not only extreamely toxic, but the bronchial mechanism within your lungs somewhat resembles the fiber glass within the butt.
I think that you'd be much safer using Ethanol but I aint advising you...
I use glass bottles to make bongs. You need to get a little hand drill and a titanium coated bit or two. You do get diamond bits but they are costly. Then all you need is a hell of a lot of time. (get your mates to help when they are sitting around stoned with nothing to do) It makes a high...