I was looking for a particular pipe tobacco on SmokingPipes.com and noticed an ad for these cigars:

www.smokingpipes.com/cigars/as...fm?product_id=290821

About $7.50 ea with my “Silver VIP” status. On a whim I bought 3. My experience with them was a “bad news”/“good news” situation.

The bad news – I didn’t like them. I smoked the first one and didn’t like its flavor, and the smoke kept getting in my eyes. It was gone in about in 25 minutes or less.

I cut the wrapper off the second one and used about a third of its tobacco to fill my pipe. That fill lasted about 45 minutes. A better experience, but the taste was poor compared to good pipe tobacco. I tossed the rest of its tobacco.

On my early morning walks I occasionally see a black guy that smokes cigars. I’ll give the third one to him next time that I see him.

The good news – I didn’t like them. Thus confirming my opinion that pipe smoking is the best way to consume tobacco.

YMMV

I've wondered why pipe tobacco smells different than cigars, almost sweet? Do they add flavor to pipe tobacco?

Pipesmoker: What are some of your favorite pipe tobaccos? Me: I prefer Latakia mixes.

Ridewv: Yes. There is casing and there is topping. The sweet ones you notice are aromatics.

I always had an easy way out of the temptation - I've got a sweet tooth, so I loooove them orange, red and blonde Virginias. No flavoring necessary!

Were I ever to wealthy enough to have an actual library with leather bound books and brass ladders...I'd figure out a way for pipe smoke to waft through it.

Va/Per fan here. Escudo, LBF, Stonehenge, Haddo’s Delight, Marlin Flake, Hal o’the Wynd, Doblone d’ Oro and Elizabethan to name a few. Not sure off the top of my head if Stonehenge has perished tho.

I tried pipe smoking for a short period. What I like was the various smells I smelled from other people smoking their pipes.

I went through the breaking in period, etc. The taste I got from smoking pipe tobacco did not match my expectation from smelling it.

I can enjoy cigars better. Plus smoking a big stogie brings back memories of the time I spent in prison.

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Originally posted by Rey HRH:
Plus smoking a big stogie brings back memories of the time I spent in prison.

Well now, we need some more details about this.

The old Balkan Sobranie was my favorite. The new Balkan Sobranie is pretty good too. Another favorite is Penzance, if you can find it anymore.

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Originally posted by Patrick-SP2022:

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Originally posted by Rey HRH:
Plus smoking a big stogie brings back memories of the time I spent in prison.

Well now, we need some more details about this.

Ahhhh...NO! I do NOT want to hear about that! I can't get the image out of my head now. Now it's Bill Clinton in the Oval Office with AAAAGGGGGG!

During basic training out of a carton of cigarettes maybe 2 or 3 packs were smoked. During AIT out of a carton maybe 5 or 6 packs . Moochers got the rest. After arriving in Korea took up the pipe and had very few moochers of the pipe tobacco till one night while out on pass off the compound a buddie asked to borrow my pipe and being a little under the spell of the liquid spirits. Next day when pipe was returned I took a quick sniff of the bowl and the smell of wacky tobaceey so I immedately dropped the pipe and stomped it into bits and pieces. Tried the cigar tobacco
several different flavors and times but none melted my butter.................. drill sgt.

Back in the day my favorite pipe tobaccos were:

Full English
Esoterica Penzance
Cornell & Diehl Pirate Kake
McClelland Frog Morton

Mid English
McClelland Frog Morton On the Town
McClelland 5110 Dark English
Esoterica Margate
Esoterica Pembroke
Cornell & Diehl Star of India
GLPease Odyssey

Burley
MacBaren Navy Flake

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Originally posted by drill sgt:
During basic training out of a carton of cigarettes maybe 2 or 3 packs were smoked. During AIT out of a carton maybe 5 or 6 packs . Moochers got the rest. After arriving in Korea took up the pipe and had very few moochers of the pipe tobacco till one night while out on pass off the compound a buddie asked to borrow my pipe and being a little under the spell of the liquid spirits. Next day when pipe was returned I took a quick sniff of the bowl and the smell of wacky tobaceey so I immedately dropped the pipe and stomped it into bits and pieces. Tried the cigar tobacco
several different flavors and times but none melted my butter.................. drill sgt.

During my tour in Korea, a pack of cigarettes (Lucky Strike) were ten cents. To ward off mootchers, I would put a few Korean cigarettes in the Lucky Strike pack to give said mootchers. One drag from a Korean smoke was enough to cure their habit.

I also smoked a pipe in Korea. One pound can of pipe tobacco was one dollar MPC.

I'm a dyed-in-the-wool non-smoker. The only pipe tobaccos that smelled acceptable to me (from others smoking) were Mixture 79 and Cherry Blend. Everything else (especially my granddad's) smelled like burning rubber bands. I will not stay in the room with a cigar smoker.

flashguy

I just bought a pipe to relive my glory days in college when all of us frat guys would sit around and smoke our pipes. Good times!!! I prefer cigars but a decent cigar is $10-15 a stick whereas the worlds best pipe tobacco is only pennies per bowl. I understand smoking a pipe is an art form. Sorta like the difference between a fly fisherman and someone using a baitcaster. I know relighting is just part of the art but out of curiosity, how many times on average is it normal to relight?

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Originally posted by Pipe Smoker:
I was looking for a particular pipe tobacco on SmokingPipes.com and noticed an ad for these cigars:

www.smokingpipes.com/cigars/as...fm?product_id=290821

About $7.50 ea with my “Silver VIP” status. On a whim I bought 3. My experience with them was a “bad news”/“good news” situation.

The bad news – I didn’t like them. I smoked the first one and didn’t like its flavor, and the smoke kept getting in my eyes. It was gone in about in 25 minutes or less.

I cut the wrapper off the second one and used about a third of its tobacco to fill my pipe. That fill lasted about 45 minutes. A better experience, but the taste was poor compared to good pipe tobacco. I tossed the rest of its tobacco.

On my early morning walks I occasionally see a black guy that smokes cigars. I’ll give the third one to him next time that I see him.

The good news – I didn’t like them. Thus confirming my opinion that pipe smoking is the best way to consume tobacco.

YMMV

Agreed, fully. I don't love cigars.

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Originally posted by JohnV:
I know relighting is just part of the art but out of curiosity, how many times on average is it normal to relight?

If the bowl is packed properly and you take long slow draws a bowl may not require any relighting. But more often than not you may find yourself needing to fire things up a few times as well as tamping down the tobacco first. As an aside fast puffing will cause the tobacco to burn hot and harsh.

Ahhhh... my old friend tobacco, how I do miss you so.

I really enjoyed cigarettes. American Spirit in the yellow box. Not Sherman had a few decent ones too. Some Canadian cigarettes called Export A’s were alright.

Cigars were always nice to have once in a while. I wasn’t too picky, Romeo y Julietta, Arturo Fuente, and a few others I don’t really remember. The humidor at work was such a nice place to go.

And my shortest yet truest love, Grizzly wintergreen pouches. Copenhagen wintergreen pouches were a nice change once in a while. But ole buddy Grizzly how I miss you so.

I cannot have tobacco again. I love it too much. I think if I were to have any nicotine, it would fire up the desires again and I would be back to 3/4 a pack a day and five or so pouches a day.

I have now been 723 days without nicotine
I have avoided 10855 cigarettes
I have avoided 3615 pouches
I have saved $5796.50

I still miss it everyday. I also envy those of you that can control it.

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Originally posted by bronsht:
Pipesmoker: What are some of your favorite pipe tobaccos? Me: I prefer Latakia mixes.
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Dan Tobacco (Germany) makes many of my favorites. Most of ‘em are Virginia or Virginia-Perique tobaccos:
* The Mallard
* Patriot Flake
* Hamborger Veermasrer
* Tordenskjold

www.smokingpipes.com/tobacco/by-maker/dan-tobacco/

Dan Tobacco also makes Gordon Pym, an English mixture, and the only tobacco of that type that I smoke. English mixtures always have some Latakia. I generally don’t like Latakia, but Gordon Pym has a less virulent form of it.

I’ve tried many aromatic tobaccos but have never found one that I like. “Half and Half” is somewhat aromatic, and I keep a little of it on hand. Many years ago H&H could be purchased for 35¢/pouch at nearly every drugstore and grocery in the country.

My favorite Burley is Solani Aged Burley Flake. It blends well with some of my Virginias – adds some meatiness to them.

Pipe smokers can easily blend various tobaccos for variety. Not a practical option for cigar smokers!

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virulent

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