Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. (Aus./N.Z.) a cigarette paper.

1952		Here and Now (N.Z.) Jan. 32/2: See if the parole-jumper in Number 8 has got any tissues left [OED].
1966		G.W. Turner Eng. Lang. in Aus. and N.Z. viii 164: In Hobart the [expression] [...] ‘Got a tissue, mate?’ [is commoner than elsewhere]. A tissue is a cigarette paper [OED].
1981		D. Stuart I think I’ll Live 122: Have you noticed that the Tasmanians to a man always refer to a cigarette paper as a ‘tisher’?
1990		Tupper & Wortley Aus. Prison Sl. Gloss. 🌐 Tissues. Cigarette papers.
2001		D. Looser Boobslang [U. Canterbury D.Phil. thesis] 190/1: tissue n. 1 a Zig-Zag brand cigarette paper 2 a skinhead~ [from a transferral of prison argot terms: skins = skinheads; cigarette papers. A tissue = a cigarette paper; thus, tissue may also = a skinhead.] .

2. (N.Z. prison) a skinhead [‘prison argot [...] skins = skinheads; cigarette papers. A tissue = a cigarette paper; thus, tissue may also = a skinhead’ Looser (2001)].

1999		D. Looser ‘Boob Jargon’ in NZEJ 13 36: tissue n. Skinhead.
2001		D. Looser Boobslang [U. Canterbury D.Phil. thesis] 190/1: tissue n. 2 a skinhead .