Are you still smoking tobacco?
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Oddly enough, I don't find the pipe addictive. Perhaps this is beacuse I have never smoked cigs.
It's the mediative element that I most enjoy, along with the immense variation in tobacco blends along with the ritual of preparing a pipe.
I liken pipe smoking to wine drinking. Pipe tobacco ages well and is ultimately a blend of different leaf varieties grown in different climates and soils just like grapes.
I just wish I had the money to cellar tobacco. My oldest tin is a year old 100g tin of Hal o the Wynd. I am often tempted to open it but always resist. Viriginias apparently age the best.
It's the mediative element that I most enjoy, along with the immense variation in tobacco blends along with the ritual of preparing a pipe.
I liken pipe smoking to wine drinking. Pipe tobacco ages well and is ultimately a blend of different leaf varieties grown in different climates and soils just like grapes.
I just wish I had the money to cellar tobacco. My oldest tin is a year old 100g tin of Hal o the Wynd. I am often tempted to open it but always resist. Viriginias apparently age the best.
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It's a good habit in my opinion. It's a shame it's not easier to get some of the blends they have over in the US.
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Only if you close your eyes and really concentrate lol
I agree though on the US blends. A pal is going over in January and I will be giving him a wee list!
I agree though on the US blends. A pal is going over in January and I will be giving him a wee list!
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[quote="Thurston Garden"]Oddly enough, I don't find the pipe addictive. Perhaps this is beacuse I have never smoked cigs. quote]
From what i've read on my tobacco growers forum - preparing the baccy for pipe smoking can tend to lower the niccotine a bit, even more so in the fermentation for cigars.
From what i've read on my tobacco growers forum - preparing the baccy for pipe smoking can tend to lower the niccotine a bit, even more so in the fermentation for cigars.
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The nicotine content varies quite a bit in different blends. So far I am sticking to those in lighter content. I doubt I will ever progress to plugs or ropes which, according to reviews and youtube vids, blow your socks off!
I think it's the quality of the tobacco and the lack of chemical additives that helps too.
I think it's the quality of the tobacco and the lack of chemical additives that helps too.
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I just ordered some Fribourg and Treyer 'Golden Mixture' which Bertrand Russell smoked for over 70 of his 97 odd years.
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Who did you order it from? I assume from across the pond?
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Just PM'd you in case any anti-tobacco zealots are reading...Thurston Garden wrote:Who did you order it from? I assume from across the pond?
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Personally, I like a good hookah session. I had some very nice strawberry shisha New Year's Eve.
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