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    Two eBay estate pipes, made in Israel

    I bid on these two estate pipes on eBay (two separate auctions.) About fifteen dollars each. They arrived in fair condition, a bit worse for the wear, but I cleaned them up good. Both of them are made in Israel.
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    Packing a cob - what am I doing wrong?

    I got two Missouri Meerschaum corncob pipes and have tried smoking with them but find the narrow bowl to be a pain in the ass, and I feel like I'm not packing the tobacco right. I've tried ribbon cut and broken flake in them, and the bowls are so small that I feel the three-step "gravity" method...
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    Odd experience w/ Gawith Hoggarth Louisiana Perique Flake

    Hail fellows, I have been trying new tobaccos lately and ordered a small bag of Gawith and Hoggarth's Louisiana Perique Flake. It arrived in the bag, in the form of several sheets, which I gather is the usual way. It was quite moist, and smelled reminiscent of beef jerky, leather, and pine-tar...
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    Why did the tobacco taste better in one pipe than another?

    I smoked a pipe of Mac Baren Virginia No. 1 in my Peterson bent-apple pipe earlier today and I thought it was great - then later on at night, I smoked more of it in a Michael Kabik freehand and I did not enjoy it as much. It tasted more bitter and less flavorful. Even though the Michael Kabik is...
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    Why are Japanese pipes so expensive?

    Just saw a Tsuge Ikebana pipe for sale on eBay. It's a beautiful pipe, there's no question. But is it worth $3,175?
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    Why are Japanese pipes so expensive?

    Every time I see a Japanese pipe on eBay or on pipe websites, it always seems to cost several thousand dollars. Why is this? Are the Japanese pipe makers that much better at their craft? Or is it that they're using higher quality materials? Or what?
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    A tobacco blend that is somewhere between aromatic and English or Balkan

    OK, I have ordered the following tobaccos from Smokingpipes.com. Ordered last night, and they shipped today. That site is great about shipping. I'll be receiving them by Friday. Peter Stokkebye: English Luxury Newminster: No.306 English Orient Lane Limited: HGL Sutliff (Altadis): B37 Casanova...
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    A tobacco blend that is somewhere between aromatic and English or Balkan

    I've almost always smoked aromatic blends and I'm tired of it. I want to try some tobacco blends that feature more things like latakia, virginia, oriental etc. But the one time (several years ago) I tried an English blend and I wasn't a big fan, it was just too smoky and burning-wood-like. Are...
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    Risk if any of my pipe habit

    Everything in life causes me stress and angst...to hell with it, I'm gonna keep smoking the pipe. Thanks everyone.
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    Risk if any of my pipe habit

    What benefit is there of using a filter? I have read that most European pipers use them.
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    Risk if any of my pipe habit

    It would be something else if it wasn't the smoking. And it comes and goes. I can deal with it. I just figure, the more knowledge of something's effects on the body, the better...the better I can decide when, how, and if to do it. There have been plenty of good answers right here about all that.
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    Risk if any of my pipe habit

    Thank you everyone for the responses. I appreciate it. I'm not trying to be a prick, I swear. It isn't so much that I'm in fear for my life, or of cancer (no family members I know of have had cancer except my grandpa who had prostate cancer at 75 and recovered quickly.) And pipe tobacco is free...
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    Risk if any of my pipe habit

    lol yeah yeah I know, I was asking for that one with a thread like this (what was I expecting the guys on a pipe forum to say? "IT'S TERRIBLY RISKY! STOP IT AT ONCE!") I guess I just have issues with guilt and needing to be validated by others. True story, I was inspired to take up pipe smoking...
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    Risk if any of my pipe habit

    "Here we go again," yeah I imagine this question probably gets asked a lot here. Remember I am from a generation where "TOBACCO = DEATH" was drummed into our heads constantly so there is no small amount of social conditioning to break through.
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    Risk if any of my pipe habit

    Hello everyone. This is my first post. So, I have smoked a pipe on and off since I was a freshman in college (2004). By on and off I mean, perhaps a few times a month, if at all. There have been months when I smoked it once or twice a week, and months where I never smoked it at all. There have...
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