Elements Red are made of slow burning hemp. Each sheet has about 30% more stored energy than our Elements rice papers, so Elements Red outperform with moister and denser smoking materials. Whereas RAW Black is the thinnest, Elements Red goes the opposite direction; offering a thicker paper with the ability to burn your denser, moister materials without going out. It's all a matter of matching the perfect paper to the perfect material, and super thin is not always better.