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    Learning About Tobaccos

    In my second post here I said I was unable to smoke my pipes because I choked up. Thanks to your tips I've learned to smoke so that I don't. Thank you for that. So now I've decided to learn more about different tobacco types. To do that I ordered the following samples: Sutliff J4 Burley...
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    GMO Tobacco/No Nicotine

    It’s a scary time, isn’t it: Artificial intelligence, gene manipulation, melting glaciers, hypersonic weapons, over population, political unrest. I think I’ll go smoke my pipe.
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    GMO Tobacco/No Nicotine

    I didn't mean for this thread to lead to arguments about GMO crops. Sorry about that. If anyone wants another viewpoint on the corn and rats, here's a link.
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    GMO Tobacco/No Nicotine

    Some of you are concerned about the GMO process. Let me ask this: If they were to develop a tobacco using normal breeding practice that had no nicotine but smoked and tasted the same, would you smoke it?
  5. W

    Up with What are You Lighting ?

    I was in Walgreens and saw this BIC on sale and bought one. I love it. The extension keeps the flame away from my fingers.
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    GMO Tobacco/No Nicotine

    GMO is happening. You're probably eating GMO food now. Look at the labels. How important is nicotine in pipe tobacco? Some say they smoke because of flavor or the process is relaxing. Is that enough, or is smoking just a pleasant way to get nicotine? You can get decaffeinated coffee, but...
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    GMO Tobacco/No Nicotine

    If they were to genetically modify tobacco to eliminate nicotine, would anybody smoke it? They're already looking at messing with tobacco for other reasons.
  8. W

    Candle light

    Maybe your hurricane lamps have a bigger flame.
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    Banking the Fire

    My Grandparents heated their small house with a coal stove in the front room. At the end of the day, Grandpa would pile ashes over the coals. He called it banking. In the morning he would stir it up and put more coal in and the fire was still lit. It dawned on me that this is what I'm...
  10. W

    Candle light

    Thanks for all the good advice. I appreciate it.
  11. W

    Candle light

    Thanks, I'll try doing that.
  12. W

    Candle light

    Is that the secret? No, I haven't been. I haven't been tamping until the fire goes out.
  13. W

    Candle light

    I'm sure you're right.
  14. W

    Candle light

    I tamp too, but I'm not there yet.
  15. W

    Candle light

    Thanks, but the pipe never gets close to the candle. I just use the candle to light the wooden swab. I am looking at lighters.
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    Candle light

    I've been trying to re-learn how to smoke a pipe. I've been sitting in the patio and using matches to re-light, which is often. I wondered if maybe I could figure out something easier. Here's what I came up with. I wrapped some printer paper around a votive candle and secured it with...
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    Ever Bought a Pipe Just as a Curiosity?

    I wasn't raised dirt poor, but money was always tight. So, I know where you're coming from. I don't generally buy something I won't use either. A few pipes were an exception and my collecting days are long gone.
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    Ever Bought a Pipe Just as a Curiosity?

    Maybe I should have mentioned that I have smoked each of these. They were all pretty bad, so it was only once. But, I didn't expect much. At the time I was collecting pipes. These were cheap, and I thought they looked neat. Most of my pipes were bought to smoke. Some people collect coins...
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    Ever Bought a Pipe Just as a Curiosity?

    I bought these back in the 60's. I picked up the Chinese water pipe and the East Indian buc buc in Hong Kong. The ceramic pipe just says Holland on it. It has a water chamber below the bowl. The small pipe I bought in Yokosuka Japan and is supposedly made from whale bone. I don't know if it...
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    I wish I Could Smoke my Pipes.

    Thanks for the suggestion. I just looked at a bunch of reviews. Although a lot of people like it, the comments are all over the place. Some say it's tasteless, some say it's obnoxious. It's strange how opinions can vary so much. I've seen people here who like Mixture 79. When I was a teen...
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