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  1. pipeman84

    Cheap pipe tobacco - can't put my finger on what's wrong

    So I got a few tins of what could be described as cheap pipe tobacco - 170g of Colts original for 13.5 euros, 180g of Barsdorf's Bester Dark Fired for 14 euros. That compared to the standard 10-12 euros for a 50g tin of Dunhill, Peterson or Rattray's. I can't put my finger on what's wrong with...
  2. pipeman84

    Why the big love with English blends? Smell is terrible

    I had today my first English blend smoke - Dunhill standard mixture While the taste is ok, that smell is just terrible!! Culprit being Latakia I think - burnt leather/boot or what the heck is it. I don't get why there is this image that you are a 'real' pipe smoker only when you've upgraded...
  3. pipeman84

    Cigar vs Pipe tobacco

    Cigars and pipe smokers are usually lumped together, perhaps to differentiate them from cigarette smokers and perhaps because to the uninitiated, tobacco is tobacco, whether it is smoked in a pipe or cigar. But there are big differences between the two, of which I only recently became aware. I...
  4. pipeman84

    New to pipes, former cig smoker

    Hi everyone As the title of this thread says, I'm a former cigarette smoker (about 5-10/day, light inhaling) who has recently switched to a pipe. Reason for this, beside watching a lot of YouTube videos of pipe smoking and tobacco reviews that piqued my curiosity was that I didn't like the taste...