Not on smoking!!! Oh hell no!!! I just have two pipes(petersons of course) that I think I'm going to give up on. The one is a Shannon and has never smoked good no matter what tobacco or how I pack it or how I draw on it. The tobaccos all start to taste the same in it and it gurgles no matter how dry it is. The other is a real beaut of a pipe a little 313 system pipe. It burns red hot out of the gate and never cools down. I've never had to set a pipe down as often as I have to this one even on a cold day like today. Plus I can barely taste the tobacco because every thing tastes like pepper and not a good pepper. I guess I'll bench em in favor of really old pipes that smoke great.