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  1. jwp159

    How do You Like Your, Coffee, Tobacco?

    For me, I like my coffee black and very strong. My fav. tobacco strong English / Balkan blends or Vabur with plenty of vitamin N.
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    How much tobacco do you smoke in a month? Year?

    I smoke a solid lb. per month, so a good 12 lbs per year. I buy 2 lbs per month and put one in the cellar.
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    Anyone Else a Former Smokeless User?

    I used Copenhagen daily for almost 28 years at the rate of a can a day. This last January I laid it down and haven't had any since. It was the hardest thing I have ever done, I was addicted and suffered withdraws like crazy and my pipes wouldn't touch them. As time went on it got easier and now...
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    All Day Pipe Smokers

    I work from home so I am seldom without my pipe. I'm a clincher so smoking while I work goes well. When I do have to be out and about my pipe goes too. I enjoy smoking out in public and will do it anywhere it is legal. I normally have 12 - 14 bowls a day depending on bowl size.
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    "Real" Tobacco

    Captain Black #1 selling pipe tobacco, fact That it and other OTC are some how not real tobacco, is opinion a should be taken as such. Take an opinion and a nickel and add them together and you will have five cents that's all. I am a C B smoker well, lanes RLP6 and 1Q are my main smokes because...
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    Help Choose the Next Lane Bulk Blend

    Crown Acheivement was one of my fav. so thats my vote. Thank you for bring back the other blends I have really enjoyed them.
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    Who Has Listened to Every PM Magazine Radio Show?

    I only have to get caught up on them. I got behind but will get caught up tomorrow then I too can be a member of the heard them all club. Keep them coming I have really enjoyed them
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    Starbucks Smoking Ban

    I just saw the new 25' rule posted at my local Starbucks as I fired up a bowl on their patio Today. I had not caught this thread so it was the first I had heard of it. They said after June 1st I couldn't smoke there any more. I said well after June 1st you can't sell me anything because I will...
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    Cherry Flavored Tobacco

    +1 on the MC 3 cherry, one of my fav cherry blends
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    Home Grown Tobacco

    I grew up on a tobacco farm, If you can grow tomatoes then you can grow tobacco as they like the same conditions. Curing can be tricky, we flue cured ours and my grandfather was in charge of it. I wish I had paid more attention to exact temps and things but I was a teenager at the time and had...
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    U.S. Machine Mades Longevity

    I have about 15 US machine made pipes, DG , Medico and Kaywoodie. Some of these are from the 50's and are great sweet smokers. I have never had any problem any these pipes getting cruddy or sour. I smoke the heck out of them and just give them regular cleanings nothing special. Some of them I...
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    Obama Budget Attacks Tobacco ... Again

    +1 Bigmick The only way we have a chance is if the tobacco industry and all users of all types stand together. They will never outlaw tobacco but taxes us to death they will do. Everyone needs to let their voices be heard. The dem. and rep. may fight and change many parts but the tobacco taxes...
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    What Are You Smoking? April 2013

    MC Classic Flake in a 1950's DG bent
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    Missouri Meerschaum Corn Cob Fans - Need Your Input

    I love my M & M cobs, they are my first choice for putting around the yard doing yard work, in the garden or fishing and hunting. They always give a great smoke, they are light making them great for clinching so my hands are free to work my flyrod or garden hoe. I would never want to be without...