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(To health freaks and evangelising ex-smokers: please don't derail this thread with your well-intentioned comments. Those of us that like a pipe have read the warnings, worked out that we're not immortal, and have chosen to have the occasional puff. Thanks.)
Do you smoke a pipe? What tobaccos do you like? Are you a flavour connoisseur, or is it more a case of you either like something or you don't? I'm the latter for the most part - I have no idea where all the super-subtle "notes" come from, although I do notice the differences when I open the tins.
I started just over a year ago with a cheap pipe from a local shop and some Mac Baren aromatic flake (Vanilla Cream and Navy Flake). I found that I wasn't keen on them - they smoked rather hot, and maybe a bit bitey on the tongue. They left a nice aroma in the room (especially the vanilla), but the supposed flavours weren't really evident when actually smoking them, so I switched to non-aromatics.
Germain's Special Latakia Flake is quite nice for a lighter smoke (although it gets a bit more intense - and smoky - towards the end of the bowl), and Peterson's Irish Flake for the 'fuller figured" experience. Also like Revor Plug, which seems quite similar to the Irish Flake, although maybe not so good on its own - it works well when mixed with some of the Special Latakia Flake for something between the two. Along the way I tried Peterson's Perfect Plug (quite good, but rock hard, and the Irish Flake is better), and St Bruno Flake (mainly because it can be picked up in almost any supermarket), but wasn't keen.
I was attracted to flake and plug from the start, on the assumption that they don't dry out as easily as ready-rubbed tobacco. That said, I've ordered some 5g samples of Dunhill mixtures along with some flake samples (and a couple of tins of Irish Flake) from Smoke King, so I'll see how they go. (I went for My Mixture 965 and Nightcap - wondering how they compare to the Special Latakia Flake.)
So far, Irish Flake seems to be my favourite, although I don't smoke it all that often. Planning to puff on it a bit more regularly, though, while I try the various samples that are coming. (Need a little change from the Special Latakia Flake, methinks.)
Nomad
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my main tobaccos are frog morton which is amazing and American black and brown (which you can get in the UK) two beautiful sweet tasting tobaccos, but I have not had a pipe for a few months as to me its all about relaxing in the garden,,and that can't happen in this weather!
It took me a good few months to get to pack it right, but when you do the difference is night and day.
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Sobranie Balkan mix was a firm favourite, I started on the aromatics and progressed to the tasty flavourings, it seemed you couldn't have both.
The whole gadgets with it made it a great bloke type hobby. I had a brass zippo pipe lighter and a couple of pipe knife/tools too. Once you got a new pipe bedded in it was therapeutic to a degree.
I remember being told that pipe smoking was more of a soluble way of ingesting nicotine and also that mostly the tobacco was sun dried rather than the nasty oven dried ciggy stuff with all it's entrapped poisons. Still I'm glad I'm off the stuff and feel better for it, just wished I'd quit earlier or not started.
I love the smell of pipe smoke. If they made a sort of tobacco / cancer free* version I'd be all over it.
* I'd also like the moon on stick
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'Rope Or A Ladder', 'Don't Sing Love Songs', and 'Poke The Frog' albums available now - see FaceBook page for details
Nomad
Nobody loves me but my mother... and she could be jivin' too...